Glacier Mapping From Satellite Imagery

Overview

The goal of this project is to use computer vision to automatically segment
debris and ice glaciers from satellite images

Requirements are specified in requirements.txt. The full package sources is
available in the glacier_mapping directory. Raw training data are Landsat 7
tiff images from the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan region. We consider the region of
Bhutan and Nepal. Shapefile labels of the glaciers are provided by
ICIMOD

Pipeline

Overview

The full preprocessing and training can be viewed at
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ZkDtLB_2oQpSFDejKZ4YQ5MXW4c531R6?usp=sharing
Besides the raw tiffs and shapefiles, the required inputs are,

• conf/masking_paths.yaml: Says how to burn shapefiles into image masks.
• conf/postprocess.yaml: Says how to filter and transform sliced images.
• conf/train.yaml: Specifies training options.

At each step, the following intermediate files are created,

• generate_masks() --> writes mask_{id}.npy's and mask_metadata.csv
• write_pair_slices() --> writes slice_{tiff_id}img{slice_id}, slice_{tiff_id}label{slice_id}, and slice_0-100.geojson (depending on which lines from mask_metadata are sliced)
• postproces() --> copies slices*npy from previous step into train/, dev/, test/ folders, and writes mean and standard deviations to path specified in postprocess.yaml
• glacier_mapping.train.* --> creates data/runs/run_name folder, containing logs/ with tensorboard logs and models/ with all checkpoints

Data Preprocessing:

1. Slicing: We slice the input tiffs into 512x512 tiles. The resulting tiles
   along with corresponding shapefile labels are stored. Metadata of the slices
   are stored in a geojson file" slicemetadata.geojson To slice, run: python3 src/slice.py
2. Transformation: For easy processing, we convert the input image and
   labels into multi-dimensional numpy .npy files.
3. Masking: The input shapefiles are transformed into masks. The masks are
   needed for use as labels. This involves transforming the label as
   multi-channel images with each channel representing a label class ie. 0 -
   Glacier, 1 debris etc To run transformation and masking: python3 src/mask.py

Data PostProcessing

1. Filtering: Returns the paths for pairs passing the filter criteria for a
   specific channel. Here we filter by the percentage of 1's in the filter
   channel.
2. Random Split: The final dataset is saved in three folders: train/ test/ dev/
3. Reshuffle: Shuffle the images and masks in the output directory
4. Imputation: Given and input, we check for missing values (NaNs) and
   replace with 0
5. Generate stats: Generate statistics of the input image channels: returns
   a dictionary with keys for means and standard deviations accross the channels
   in input images.
6. Normalization: We normalize the final dataset based on the means and
   standard deviations calclualted.

Model Training

Model: Unet with dropout (default dropout rate is 0.2).

vector data sources

Labels : ICIMOD

• (2000, Nepal): Polygons older/newer than 2 years from 2000 are filtered out. Original collection contains few polygons from 1990s
• (2000, Bhutan): Used as it's
• (2010, Nepal): Polygons older/newer than 2 years from 2010 are filtered out. Original collection is for 1980-2010
• (2010, Bhutan): Used as it's

License

Code open source for anyone to use as it's under MIT License