Estimating Earthquake Magnitude in Sentinel-1 Imagery via Ranking

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Main Authors: Cambrin, Daniele Rege, Corley, Isaac, Garza, Paolo, Najafirad, Peyman
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author Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Corley, Isaac
Garza, Paolo
Najafirad, Peyman
author_facet Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Corley, Isaac
Garza, Paolo
Najafirad, Peyman
contents Earthquakes are commonly estimated using physical seismic stations, however, due to the installation requirements and costs of these stations, global coverage quickly becomes impractical. An efficient and lower-cost alternative is to develop machine learning models to globally monitor earth observation data to pinpoint regions impacted by these natural disasters. However, due to the small amount of historically recorded earthquakes, this becomes a low-data regime problem requiring algorithmic improvements to achieve peak performance when learning to regress earthquake magnitude. In this paper, we propose to pose the estimation of earthquake magnitudes as a metric-learning problem, training models to not only estimate earthquake magnitude from Sentinel-1 satellite imagery but to additionally rank pairwise samples. Our experiments show at max a 30%+ improvement in MAE over prior regression-only based methods, particularly transformer-based architectures.
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spellingShingle Estimating Earthquake Magnitude in Sentinel-1 Imagery via Ranking
Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Corley, Isaac
Garza, Paolo
Najafirad, Peyman
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Earthquakes are commonly estimated using physical seismic stations, however, due to the installation requirements and costs of these stations, global coverage quickly becomes impractical. An efficient and lower-cost alternative is to develop machine learning models to globally monitor earth observation data to pinpoint regions impacted by these natural disasters. However, due to the small amount of historically recorded earthquakes, this becomes a low-data regime problem requiring algorithmic improvements to achieve peak performance when learning to regress earthquake magnitude. In this paper, we propose to pose the estimation of earthquake magnitudes as a metric-learning problem, training models to not only estimate earthquake magnitude from Sentinel-1 satellite imagery but to additionally rank pairwise samples. Our experiments show at max a 30%+ improvement in MAE over prior regression-only based methods, particularly transformer-based architectures.
title Estimating Earthquake Magnitude in Sentinel-1 Imagery via Ranking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18128