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Main Authors: Si, Guoxin, Fu, Shiliang, Yao, Wei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12870
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author Si, Guoxin
Fu, Shiliang
Yao, Wei
author_facet Si, Guoxin
Fu, Shiliang
Yao, Wei
contents As global warming intensifies, increased attention is being paid to monitoring fugitive methane emissions and detecting gas plumes from landfills. We have divided methane emission monitoring into three subtasks: methane concentration inversion, plume segmentation, and emission rate estimation. Traditional algorithms face certain limitations: methane concentration inversion typically employs the matched filter, which is sensitive to the global spectrum distribution and prone to significant noise. There is scant research on plume segmentation, with many studies depending on manual segmentation, which can be subjective. The estimation of methane emission rate frequently uses the IME algorithm, which necessitates meteorological measurement data. Utilizing the WENT landfill site in Hong Kong along with PRISMA hyperspectral satellite imagery, we introduce a novel deep learning-based framework for quantitative methane emission monitoring from remote sensing images that is grounded in physical simulation. We create simulated methane plumes using large eddy simulation (LES) and various concentration maps of fugitive emissions using the radiative transfer equation (RTE), while applying augmentation techniques to construct a simulated PRISMA dataset. We train a U-Net network for methane concentration inversion, a Mask R-CNN network for methane plume segmentation, and a ResNet-50 network for methane emission rate estimation. All three deep networks yield higher validation accuracy compared to traditional algorithms. Furthermore, we combine the first two subtasks and the last two subtasks to design multi-task learning models, MTL-01 and MTL-02, both of which outperform single-task models in terms of accuracy. Our research exemplifies the application of multi-task deep learning to quantitative methane monitoring and can be generalized to a wide array of methane monitoring tasks.
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spellingShingle Unlocking the Potential: Multi-task Deep Learning for Spaceborne Quantitative Monitoring of Fugitive Methane Plumes
Si, Guoxin
Fu, Shiliang
Yao, Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As global warming intensifies, increased attention is being paid to monitoring fugitive methane emissions and detecting gas plumes from landfills. We have divided methane emission monitoring into three subtasks: methane concentration inversion, plume segmentation, and emission rate estimation. Traditional algorithms face certain limitations: methane concentration inversion typically employs the matched filter, which is sensitive to the global spectrum distribution and prone to significant noise. There is scant research on plume segmentation, with many studies depending on manual segmentation, which can be subjective. The estimation of methane emission rate frequently uses the IME algorithm, which necessitates meteorological measurement data. Utilizing the WENT landfill site in Hong Kong along with PRISMA hyperspectral satellite imagery, we introduce a novel deep learning-based framework for quantitative methane emission monitoring from remote sensing images that is grounded in physical simulation. We create simulated methane plumes using large eddy simulation (LES) and various concentration maps of fugitive emissions using the radiative transfer equation (RTE), while applying augmentation techniques to construct a simulated PRISMA dataset. We train a U-Net network for methane concentration inversion, a Mask R-CNN network for methane plume segmentation, and a ResNet-50 network for methane emission rate estimation. All three deep networks yield higher validation accuracy compared to traditional algorithms. Furthermore, we combine the first two subtasks and the last two subtasks to design multi-task learning models, MTL-01 and MTL-02, both of which outperform single-task models in terms of accuracy. Our research exemplifies the application of multi-task deep learning to quantitative methane monitoring and can be generalized to a wide array of methane monitoring tasks.
title Unlocking the Potential: Multi-task Deep Learning for Spaceborne Quantitative Monitoring of Fugitive Methane Plumes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12870