Multi-Platform Methane Plume Detection via Model and Domain Adaptation

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Hauptverfasser: Mancoridis, Vassiliki, Bue, Brian, Lee, Jake H., Thorpe, Andrew K., Cusworth, Daniel, Ayasse, Alana, Brodrick, Philip G., Duren, Riley
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author Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Bue, Brian
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Brodrick, Philip G.
Duren, Riley
author_facet Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Bue, Brian
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Brodrick, Philip G.
Duren, Riley
contents Prioritizing methane for near-term climate action is crucial due to its significant impact on global warming. Previous work used columnwise matched filter products from the airborne AVIRIS-NG imaging spectrometer to detect methane plume sources; convolutional neural networks (CNNs) discerned anthropogenic methane plumes from false positive enhancements. However, as an increasing number of remote sensing platforms are used for methane plume detection, there is a growing need to address cross-platform alignment. In this work, we describe model- and data-driven machine learning approaches that leverage airborne observations to improve spaceborne methane plume detection, reconciling the distributional shifts inherent with performing the same task across platforms. We develop a spaceborne methane plume classifier using data from the EMIT imaging spectroscopy mission. We refine classifiers trained on airborne imagery from AVIRIS-NG campaigns using transfer learning, outperforming the standalone spaceborne model. Finally, we use CycleGAN, an unsupervised image-to-image translation technique, to align the data distributions between airborne and spaceborne contexts. Translating spaceborne EMIT data to the airborne AVIRIS-NG domain using CycleGAN and applying airborne classifiers directly yields the best plume detection results. This methodology is useful not only for data simulation, but also for direct data alignment. Though demonstrated on the task of methane plume detection, our work more broadly demonstrates a data-driven approach to align related products obtained from distinct remote sensing instruments.
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spellingShingle Multi-Platform Methane Plume Detection via Model and Domain Adaptation
Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Bue, Brian
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Brodrick, Philip G.
Duren, Riley
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Prioritizing methane for near-term climate action is crucial due to its significant impact on global warming. Previous work used columnwise matched filter products from the airborne AVIRIS-NG imaging spectrometer to detect methane plume sources; convolutional neural networks (CNNs) discerned anthropogenic methane plumes from false positive enhancements. However, as an increasing number of remote sensing platforms are used for methane plume detection, there is a growing need to address cross-platform alignment. In this work, we describe model- and data-driven machine learning approaches that leverage airborne observations to improve spaceborne methane plume detection, reconciling the distributional shifts inherent with performing the same task across platforms. We develop a spaceborne methane plume classifier using data from the EMIT imaging spectroscopy mission. We refine classifiers trained on airborne imagery from AVIRIS-NG campaigns using transfer learning, outperforming the standalone spaceborne model. Finally, we use CycleGAN, an unsupervised image-to-image translation technique, to align the data distributions between airborne and spaceborne contexts. Translating spaceborne EMIT data to the airborne AVIRIS-NG domain using CycleGAN and applying airborne classifiers directly yields the best plume detection results. This methodology is useful not only for data simulation, but also for direct data alignment. Though demonstrated on the task of methane plume detection, our work more broadly demonstrates a data-driven approach to align related products obtained from distinct remote sensing instruments.
title Multi-Platform Methane Plume Detection via Model and Domain Adaptation
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06348