Dataset for Water Body Detection Using Satellite SAR Images

Abstract

Satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) generates valid image information in all-weather. Thus, it can be effectively used for near real-time monitoring and damage analysis of flood areas which always involve overcast skies. Water body detection (WBD) using SAR images can be implemented by various techniques which discriminate electromagnetic characteristics between water and non-water areas. Especially, semantic segmentation exploiting artificial intelligence techniques can be used to develop a high-performance WBD model. To this end, Korea Aerospace Research Institute has built an WBD dataset using KOMPSAT-5 images. The dataset is currently available through the website, aihub.or.kr.

Keywords

• dataset
• water body detection
• satellite sar
• remote sensing
• artificial intelligence