MFPANet: multi-scale feature perception and aggregation network for high-resolution snow depth estimation

Zhao, L., Chen, J., Shahzad, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9394-343X, Xia, M. and Lin, H. (2024) MFPANet: multi-scale feature perception and aggregation network for high-resolution snow depth estimation. Remote Sensing, 16 (12). 2087. ISSN 2072-4292 doi: 10.3390/rs16122087

Abstract/Summary

Accurate snow depth estimation is of significant importance, particularly for preventing avalanche disasters and predicting flood seasons. The predominant approaches for such snow depth estimation, based on deep learning methods, typically rely on passive microwave remote sensing data. However, due to the low resolution of passive microwave remote sensing data, it often results in low-accuracy outcomes, posing considerable limitations in application. To further improve the accuracy of snow depth estimation, in this paper, we used active microwave remote sensing data. We fused multi-spectral optical satellite images, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and land cover distribution images to generate a snow remote sensing dataset (SRSD). It is a first-of-its-kind dataset that includes active microwave remote sensing images in high-latitude regions of Asia. Using these novel data, we proposed a multi-scale feature perception and aggregation neural network (MFPANet) that focuses on improving feature extraction from multi-source images. Our systematic analysis reveals that the proposed approach is not only robust but also achieves high accuracy in snow depth estimation compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, with RMSE of 0.360 and with MAE of 0.128. Finally, we selected several representative areas in our study region and applied our method to map snow depth distribution, demonstrating its broad application prospects.

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Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Publisher	MDPI
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