SHAZAM: Self-Supervised Change Monitoring for Hazard Detection and Mapping

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Autores principales: Garske, Samuel, Heidler, Konrad, Evans, Bradley, Wong, KC, Zhu, Xiao Xiang
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Publicado: 2025
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author Garske, Samuel
Heidler, Konrad
Evans, Bradley
Wong, KC
Zhu, Xiao Xiang
author_facet Garske, Samuel
Heidler, Konrad
Evans, Bradley
Wong, KC
Zhu, Xiao Xiang
contents The increasing frequency of environmental hazards due to climate change underscores the urgent need for effective monitoring systems. Current approaches either rely on expensive labelled datasets, struggle with seasonal variations, or require multiple observations for confirmation (which delays detection). To address these challenges, this work presents SHAZAM - Self-Supervised Change Monitoring for Hazard Detection and Mapping. SHAZAM uses a lightweight conditional UNet to generate expected images of a region of interest (ROI) for any day of the year, allowing for the direct modelling of normal seasonal changes and the ability to distinguish potential hazards. A modified structural similarity measure compares the generated images with actual satellite observations to compute region-level anomaly scores and pixel-level hazard maps. Additionally, a theoretically grounded seasonal threshold eliminates the need for dataset-specific optimisation. Evaluated on four diverse datasets that contain bushfires (wildfires), burned regions, extreme and out-of-season snowfall, floods, droughts, algal blooms, and deforestation, SHAZAM achieved F1 score improvements of between 0.066 and 0.234 over existing methods. This was achieved primarily through more effective hazard detection (higher recall) while using only 473K parameters. SHAZAM demonstrated superior mapping capabilities through higher spatial resolution and improved ability to suppress background features while accentuating both immediate and gradual hazards. SHAZAM has been established as an effective and generalisable solution for hazard detection and mapping across different geographical regions and a diverse range of hazards. The Python code is available at: https://github.com/WiseGamgee/SHAZAM
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spellingShingle SHAZAM: Self-Supervised Change Monitoring for Hazard Detection and Mapping
Garske, Samuel
Heidler, Konrad
Evans, Bradley
Wong, KC
Zhu, Xiao Xiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
The increasing frequency of environmental hazards due to climate change underscores the urgent need for effective monitoring systems. Current approaches either rely on expensive labelled datasets, struggle with seasonal variations, or require multiple observations for confirmation (which delays detection). To address these challenges, this work presents SHAZAM - Self-Supervised Change Monitoring for Hazard Detection and Mapping. SHAZAM uses a lightweight conditional UNet to generate expected images of a region of interest (ROI) for any day of the year, allowing for the direct modelling of normal seasonal changes and the ability to distinguish potential hazards. A modified structural similarity measure compares the generated images with actual satellite observations to compute region-level anomaly scores and pixel-level hazard maps. Additionally, a theoretically grounded seasonal threshold eliminates the need for dataset-specific optimisation. Evaluated on four diverse datasets that contain bushfires (wildfires), burned regions, extreme and out-of-season snowfall, floods, droughts, algal blooms, and deforestation, SHAZAM achieved F1 score improvements of between 0.066 and 0.234 over existing methods. This was achieved primarily through more effective hazard detection (higher recall) while using only 473K parameters. SHAZAM demonstrated superior mapping capabilities through higher spatial resolution and improved ability to suppress background features while accentuating both immediate and gradual hazards. SHAZAM has been established as an effective and generalisable solution for hazard detection and mapping across different geographical regions and a diverse range of hazards. The Python code is available at: https://github.com/WiseGamgee/SHAZAM
title SHAZAM: Self-Supervised Change Monitoring for Hazard Detection and Mapping
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00348