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Glacier Segmentation From Remote Sensing Imagery Using Deep Learning, Bibek Aryal Dec 2022

Glacier Segmentation From Remote Sensing Imagery Using Deep Learning, Bibek Aryal

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Large-scale study of glaciers improves our understanding of global glacier change and is imperative for monitoring the ecological environment, preventing disasters, and studying the effects of global climate change. In recent years, remote sensing imagery has been preferred over riskier and resource-intensive field visits for tracking landscape level changes like glaciers. However, periodic manual labeling of glaciers over a large area is not feasible due to the considerable amount of time it requires while automatic segmentation of glaciers has its own set of challenges. Our work aims to study the challenges associated with segmentation of glaciers from remote sensing imagery …


Glacier Segmentation In Satellite Images For Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, Bibek Aryal Jan 2020

Glacier Segmentation In Satellite Images For Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, Bibek Aryal

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Climate change poses a risk to individuals whose livelihoods depend on the health of glacier ecosystems. Monitoring glaciers in the Himalayan Hindu Kush (HKH) region is of high importance especially when we consider the impact of recent climate change on them. Our work aims to provide an automated method to outline glaciers using machine learning techniques and publicly available remote sensing imagery.In this work, we present ways to delineate glaciers from Landsat-7 imagery using various machine learning and computer vision techniques. The multi-step methodology that we present in this work is generalizable across different types of satellite and overhead imagery, …