Abstract
Nowadays, estuarial areas have been strongly affected by the construction of electrical power dams from upstream, downstream urbanization and many types of hazards along the coastal regions. It has resulted in significant changes in estuarine wetland ecosystems between rainy and dry seasons. To avoid estuary vulnerability, monitoring and evaluation of the estuarine ecosystems are very critical tasks. The main goal of this research is to propose and implement a novel deep learning method in monitoring various ecosystems in estuarine regions. The processing speed and accuracy of common neural networks is improved more than ten times through spatial and context paths integrated into a novel Bilateral Segmentation Network (BiSeNet). The multi-sensor and multi-temporal satellite images (including Sentinel-2, ALOS-DEM, and NOAA-DEM images) served as input data. As a result, four BiSeNet models out of 20 trained models achieved a greater than 90% accuracy, especially for interpreting estuarine waters, intertidal forested wetlands, and aquacultural lands in subtidal regions. These models outperformed Random Forest and Support Vector Machine approaches. The best one was used to map estuarine ecosystems from 12 satellite images over a five-year period in the largest estuary in northern Vietnam. The ecosystem changes between dry and rainy seasons were analyzed in detail to assess the ecological succession in estuaries. Furthermore, this model can potentially update new estuarine ecosystem types in other estuarine areas across the world, making possible real-time monitoring and assessing estuarine ecological conditions for sustainable management of wetland ecosystem.
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