Abstract
Distinguishing sea ice and water is crucial for safe navigation and carrying out offshore activities in ice zones. However, due to the complexity and dynamics of the ice–water boundary, it is difficult for many deep learning-based segmentation algorithms to achieve accurate ice–water segmentation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In this paper, we propose an ice–water SAR segmentation network, E-MPSPNet, which can provide effective ice–water segmentation by fusing semantic features and edge information. The E-MPSPNet introduces a multi-scale attention mechanism to better fuse the ice–water semantic features and designs an edge supervision module (ESM) to learn ice–water edge features. The ESM not only provides ice–water edge prediction but also imposes constraints on the semantic feature extraction to better express the edge information. We also design a loss function that focuses on both ice–water edges and semantic segmentations of ice and water for overall network optimization. With the AI4Arctic/ASIP Sea Ice Dataset as the benchmark, experimental results show our E-MPSPNet achieves the best performance compared with other commonly used segmentation models, reaching 94.2% for accuracy, 93.0% for F-score, and 89.2% for MIoU. Moreover, our E-MPSPNet shows a relatively smaller model size and faster processing speed. The application of the E-MPSPNet for processing a SAR scene demonstrates its potential for operational use in drawing near real-time navigation charts of sea ice.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Shanghai Science and Technology Commission
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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