Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 24, 2412002(2023)

Oil Spill Detection Algorithm of a Fully Polarimetric SAR Based on Dual-EndNet

Dongmei Song1,2, Mingyue Wang1、*, Chengcong Hu3, Jie Zhang1,4, Bin Wang1, Shanwei Liu1, Dawei Wang1, and Bin Liu5
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China
  • 2Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, Shandong, China
  • 3China National Logging Corporation, Beijing 100101, China
  • 4First Institute of Oceanology, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, Shandong, China
  • 5Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, Qingdao 266237, Shandong, China
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    Marine oil spill accidents not only result in huge property and economic losses but also adversely affect the marine ecosystem. The polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) is widely used for marine oil spill detection because it can record the backscattering information of ground objects comprehensively through various polarization channels. To detect offshore oil spills more accurately, this study proposes a PolSAR marine oil spill detection algorithm based on a Dual Encoder-Decoder Net (Dual-EndNet). First, the 30 polarimetric features commonly used for oil spill detection were extracted from the data, and the top 10 features with high importance for oil spill detection were selected by a random forest algorithm. Next, using the encoder-decoder as the basic framework, the two branches were designed to input the PauliRGB images and the selected 10 polarimetric feature images, respectively. These were used to extract the spatial information and polarization information from the PolSAR images of the oil spill. Then, the two branches of information are merged to improve the network performance. Experiments conducted on two Radarsat-2 fully PolSAR oil spill datasets show that the proposed method has a strong oil spill detection capability, and can effectively distinguish different types of oil films, including mineral oil, biogenic film, and emulsions.

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    Dongmei Song, Mingyue Wang, Chengcong Hu, Jie Zhang, Bin Wang, Shanwei Liu, Dawei Wang, Bin Liu. Oil Spill Detection Algorithm of a Fully Polarimetric SAR Based on Dual-EndNet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(24): 2412002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology

    Received: Feb. 17, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 4, 2023

    Published Online: Nov. 27, 2023

    The Author Email: Wang Mingyue (s20160047@s.upc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP230660

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