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AI-Driven Satellite Data for Global Environment Monitoring (Second Edition)

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "AI Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 1493

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Interests: artificial intelligence; semantic segmentation; remote sensing of disaster; applications in agriculture, forest, hydrology, and meteorology
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Dear Colleagues,

This is the 2nd edition of the Special Issue “AI-Driven Satellite Data for Global Environment Monitoring”.

The acceleration of environmental changes on Earth may significantly affect the global atmosphere, oceans, agriculture, forests, and water. Indeed, the Earth belongs to our descendants, not to us, and so we must deliver a safe and clean Earth to them. Satellite remote sensing data are essential material for the spatially and temporally continuous observation of the Earth. Moreover, recent technological developments ensure higher resolution and broader coverage to monitor disasters, meteorology, air quality, vegetation, hydrology, and polar regions. AI is a powerful tool for creating high-quality satellite images and for observation of the Earth’s environmental phenomena using advanced computing power. In addition to the classical algorithms, various state-of-the-art models can help improve AI-driven satellite data for global environmental monitoring. We invite colleagues’ insights and contributions to various research areas involving remote sensing combined with an AI approach. Papers can be focused on, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Deep learning-based object detection from satellite images for the environmental monitoring of Earth;
  • Semantic segmentation of satellite images for the environmental monitoring of Earth;
  • Super-resolution techniques for the environmental monitoring of Earth;
  • AI-based spatiotemporal image fusion for the environmental monitoring of Earth;
  • AI-based change detection for the environmental monitoring of Earth;
  • Satellite-based disaster management using AI models;
  • AI-based retrieval algorithm for the satellite products in atmosphere, meteorology, ocean, and air quality;
  • AI-based retrieval algorithm for the satellite products in agriculture, forests, hydrology, and ecology;
  • AI-driven novel methods for Earth’s environmental monitoring with satellite images.

Prof. Dr. Yang-Won Lee
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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • semantic segmentation
  • remote sensing of disaster
  • applications in agriculture, forest, hydrology, and meteorology

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Detection of Floating Algae Blooms on Water Bodies Using PlanetScope Images and Shifted Windows Transformer Model
by Jihye Ahn, Kwangjin Kim, Yeji Kim, Hyunok Kim and Yangwon Lee
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(20), 3791; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16203791 - 12 Oct 2024
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The increasing water temperature due to climate change has led to more frequent algae blooms and deteriorating water quality in coastal areas and rivers worldwide. To address this, we developed a deep learning-based model for identifying floating algae blooms using PlanetScope optical images [...] Read more.
The increasing water temperature due to climate change has led to more frequent algae blooms and deteriorating water quality in coastal areas and rivers worldwide. To address this, we developed a deep learning-based model for identifying floating algae blooms using PlanetScope optical images and the Shifted Windows (Swin) Transformer architecture. We created 1,998 datasets from 105 scenes of PlanetScope imagery collected between 2018 and 2023, covering 14 water bodies known for frequent algae blooms. The methodology included data pre-processing, dataset generation, deep learning modeling, and inference result generation. The input images contained six bands, including vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), enhancing the model’s responsiveness to algae blooms. Evaluations were conducted using both single-period and multi-period datasets. The single-period model achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) between 72.18% and 76.47%, while the multi-period model significantly improved performance, with an mIoU of 91.72%. This demonstrates the potential of our model and highlights the importance of change detection in multi-temporal images for algae bloom monitoring. Additionally, the padding technique proposed in this study resolved the border issue that arises when mosaicking inference results from individual patches, providing a seamless view of the satellite scene. Full article
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