摘要
Bathymetric measurement of shallow water is of fundamental importance to coastal environment research and resource management.However,there are still great challenges in estimating water depth using satellite observations in turbid coastal waters.In this paper,we developed a physicsenhanced deep neural network to estimate bathymetry of highly turbid waters of the Changjiang(Yangtze)River estuary from dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar(SAR)images.Sentinel-1A/B SAR images with a spatial resolution of 20 m×22 m were collected and matched with water depth data from nautical charts during 2017-2023.For the input parameters of the model,in addition to the normalized radar backscatter cross section(NRCS)at single polarization and incidence angle,the impacts of both polarimetric characteristics and physical environmental factors on model performance were discussed in detail.Results of feature importance analysis and sensitivity experiments indicate that the polarization ratio and NRCS after removing the influence of background sea surface wind field make significant contributions to the bathymetry retrieval model.The root mean square error(RMSE)of SAR derived water depth decreases from 1.44 to 0.78 m within 0-30-m depth,and the mean relative error(MRE)is reduced from 15.6%to 8.6%.Compared with other machine learning models such as ResNet,XGBoost,and Random Forest,the MRE is reduced by 3.9%,5.7%,and 7.4%,respectively.The spatial distribution of SAR derived water depth also exhibits a high degree of consistency with observations,demonstrating the great potential of the model in estimating the depth of turbid shallow waters.
基金
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.T2261149752,41976163,42476172)。
