Cross-Domain Submesoscale Eddy Detection Neural Network for HF Radar

Abstract

With the rapid development of deep learning, the neural network becomes an efficient approach for eddy detection. However, previous work employs a traditional neural network with a focus on improving the detecting accuracy only using limited data under a single scenario. Meanwhile, the experience of detecting eddies from one experiment is not directly inherited from the detection model for other experiments. Therefore, a cross-domain submesoscale eddy detection neural network (CDEDNet) based on the high-frequency radar (HFR) data of the Nansan and Xuwen region is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a fundamental deep eddy detection architecture CDEDNet-0 is constructed with a fully convolutional network (FCN). Secondly, for solving the problem of insufficient labeled eddy data, an instance-based domain adaption method is adopted in CDEDNet-1 to increase training samples. Thirdly, for tackling the problem of unable to inherit previous detection experience, parameter-based transfer learning is incorporated in CDEDNet-2 for multi-scene eddy detection. The experiment results demonstrate CDEDNet-1 and CDEDNet-2 perform better than CDEDNet-0 in terms of accuracy. Meanwhile, eddy characteristics including eddy type, radius, occurring time, merger, and dynamic trajectory are analyzed for the Nansan and Xuwen regions.