Browsing by Author "Sergieieva, Kateryna"

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    Computer Technology for Satellite Imagery Processing in Nature Management Problem Solving Using Lineament Analysis
    (Український державний університет науки і технологій, ІВК «Системні технології», Дніпро, 2023) Kashtan, Vita Yu.; Nikulin, Serhii; Hnatushenko, Volodymyr V.; Sergieieva, Kateryna; Korobko, Olha; Ivanov, Denys
    ENG: This study focuses on analyzing the techniques used to highlight lineaments in images. Various mask algorithms, including the widely used optimal Kenny detector, were employed to identify brightness boundaries. Additionally, several quality criteria were developed to assess the accuracy of boundary selection. Based on the results of the analysis, conclusions were drawn regarding the effectiveness of different pre-processing methods for space images, along with recommendations to streamline data processing and analysis and enhance the reliability of results. Our analysis of image processing methods for selecting brightness boundaries revealed that the most effective approach involves applying filters to the source images to increase the number of selected boundaries while maintaining their integrity and length.
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    Surface Water Mapping from SAR Images Using Optimal Threshold Selection Method and Reference Water Mask
    (MDPI, 2022) Kavats, Olena O.; Khramov, Dmitriy; Sergieieva, Kateryna
    ENG: Water resources are an important component of ecosystem services. During long periods of cloudiness and precipitation, when a ground-based sample is not available, the water bodies are detected from satellite SAR (synthetic-aperture radar) data using threshold methods (e.g., Otsu and Kittler–Illingworth). However, such methods do not enable to obtain the correct threshold value for the backscattering coefficient (s0) of relatively small water areas in the image. The paper proposes and substantiates a method for the mapping of the surface of water bodies, which makes it possible to correctly identify water bodies, even in “water”/“land” class imbalance situations. The method operates on a principle of maximum compliance of the resulting SAR water mask with a given reference water mask. Therefore, the method enables the exploration of the possibilities of searching and choosing the optimal parameters (polarization and speckle filtering), which provide the maximum quality of SAR water mask. The method was applied for mapping natural and industrial water bodies in the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa region (North Ostrobothnia), Finland, using Sentinel-1A and -1B ground range detected (GRD) data (ascending and descending orbits) in 2018–2021. Reference water masks were generated based on optical spectral indices derived from Sentinel-2A and -2B data. The polarization and speckle filtering parameters were chosen since they provide the most accurate s0 threshold (on average for all observations above 0.9 according to the Intersection over Union criterion) and are resistant to random fluctuations. If a reference water mask is available, the proposed method is more accurate than the Otsu method. Without a reference mask, the s0 threshold is calculated as an average of thresholds obtained from previous observations. In this case, the proposed method is as good in accuracy as the Otsu method. It is shown that the proposed method enables the identification of surface water bodies under significant class imbalance conditions, such as when the water surface covers only a fraction of a percent of the area under study.