Automated Mapping of Antarctic Supraglacial Lakes Using a Machine Learning Approach

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作者
Dirscherl, Mariel [1 ]
Dietz, Andreas J. [1 ]
Kneisel, Christof [2 ]
Kuenzer, Claudia [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] German Aerosp Ctr DLR, German Remote Sensing Data Ctr DFD, D-82234 Wessling, Germany
[2] Univ Wurzburg, Inst Geog & Geol, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany
关键词
Antarctica; Antarctic ice sheet; supraglacial lakes; surface melt; hydrology; ice sheet dynamics; sentinel-2; remote sensing; random forest; machine learning; GREENLAND ICE-SHEET; WATER INDEX NDWI; WEST GREENLAND; RANDOM FOREST; SEASONAL EVOLUTION; MODIS IMAGERY; SURFACE MELT; SHELF; MELTWATER; DRAINAGE;
D O I
10.3390/rs12071203
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Supraglacial lakes can have considerable impact on ice sheet mass balance and global sea-level-rise through ice shelf fracturing and subsequent glacier speedup. In Antarctica, the distribution and temporal development of supraglacial lakes as well as their potential contribution to increased ice mass loss remains largely unknown, requiring a detailed mapping of the Antarctic surface hydrological network. In this study, we employ a Machine Learning algorithm trained on Sentinel-2 and auxiliary TanDEM-X topographic data for automated mapping of Antarctic supraglacial lakes. To ensure the spatio-temporal transferability of our method, a Random Forest was trained on 14 training regions and applied over eight spatially independent test regions distributed across the whole Antarctic continent. In addition, we employed our workflow for large-scale application over Amery Ice Shelf where we calculated interannual supraglacial lake dynamics between 2017 and 2020 at full ice shelf coverage. To validate our supraglacial lake detection algorithm, we randomly created point samples over our classification results and compared them to Sentinel-2 imagery. The point comparisons were evaluated using a confusion matrix for calculation of selected accuracy metrics. Our analysis revealed wide-spread supraglacial lake occurrence in all three Antarctic regions. For the first time, we identified supraglacial meltwater features on Abbott, Hull and Cosgrove Ice Shelves in West Antarctica as well as for the entire Amery Ice Shelf for years 2017-2020. Over Amery Ice Shelf, maximum lake extent varied strongly between the years with the 2019 melt season characterized by the largest areal coverage of supraglacial lakes (similar to 763 km(2)). The accuracy assessment over the test regions revealed an average Kappa coefficient of 0.86 where the largest value of Kappa reached 0.98 over George VI Ice Shelf. Future developments will involve the generation of circum-Antarctic supraglacial lake mapping products as well as their use for further methodological developments using Sentinel-1 SAR data in order to characterize intraannual supraglacial meltwater dynamics also during polar night and independent of meteorological conditions. In summary, the implementation of the Random Forest classifier enabled the development of the first automated mapping method applied to Sentinel-2 data distributed across all three Antarctic regions.
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