Conference Paper2023Cited by 6

Automatic Detection of Natural Disaster Effect on Paddy Field from Satellite Images Using Deep Learning Techniques

Tahmid Alavi Ishmam, Amin Ahsan Ali, Md Ahsraful Amin, AKM Mahbubur Rahman

2023 8th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE)

IEEE, pp. 72–77

  • Zero Hunger — Relevance: 87%
  • Climate Action — Relevance: 61%

Abstract

This paper aims to detect rice field damage from natural disasters in Bangladesh using high-resolution satellite imagery. The authors developed ground truth data for rice field damage from the field level. At first, NDVI differences before and after the disaster are calculated to identify possible crop loss. The areas equal to and above the 0.33 threshold are marked as crop loss areas as significant changes are observed. The authors also verified crop loss areas by collecting data from local farmers. Later, different bands of satellite data (Red, Green, Blue) and (False Color Infrared) are useful to detect crop loss area. We used the NDVI different images as ground truth to train the DeepLabV3plus model. With RGB, we got IoU 0.41 and with FCI, we got IoU 0.51. As FCI uses NIR, Red, Blue bands and NDVI is normalized difference between NIR and Red bands, so greater FCI's IoU score than RGB is expected. But RGB does not perform very badly here. So, where other bands are not available, RGB can use to understand crop loss areas to some extent. The ground truth developed in this paper can be used for segmentation models with very high resolution RGB only images such as Bing, Google etc.

Keywords

  • Bangladesh
  • DeepLabV3+
  • RGB images
  • high-resolution satellite imagery
  • semantic segmentation
  • natural disasters
  • NDVI change detection
  • Ground truth
  • crop yield loss
  • disaster impact assessment

CCDS Authors

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

  • Director, AI/ML Wing

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

AKM Mahbubur Rahman, PhD
AKM Mahbubur Rhman, PhD

AKM Mahbubur Rahman, PhD

  • Director, DS & IPT Wings

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

CHI, ECCV, WACV, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, BEA, Scientific Reports, Information Sciences

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