Article: The Use of C-Band and X-Band SAR with Machine Learning for Detecting Small-Scale Mining
Remote Sensing. 2022 Feb. 17, v. 14, no. 4
2022
Abstract: Illicit small-scale mining occurs in many tropical regions and is both environmentally and socially hazardous. The aim of this study was to determine whether the classification of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery could detect and map small-scale ... ...
| Abstract | Illicit small-scale mining occurs in many tropical regions and is both environmentally and socially hazardous. The aim of this study was to determine whether the classification of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery could detect and map small-scale mining in Ghana by analyzing multi-temporal filtering applied to three SAR datasets and testing five machine-learning classifiers. Using an object-based image analysis approach, we were successful in classifying water bodies associated with small-scale mining. The multi-temporally filtered Sentinel-1 dataset was the most reliable, with kappa coefficients at 0.65 and 0.82 for the multi-class classification scheme and binary-water classification scheme, respectively. The single-date Sentinel-1 dataset has the highest overall accuracy, at 90.93% for the binary water classification scheme. The KompSAT-5 dataset achieved the lowest accuracy at an overall accuracy of 80.61% and a kappa coefficient of 0.61 for a binary-water classification scheme. The experimental results demonstrated that it is possible to classify water as a proxy to identify illegal mining activities and that SAR is a potentially accurate and reliable solution for the detection of SSM in tropical regions such as Ghana. Therefore, using SAR can assist local governments in regulating small-scale mining activities by providing specific spatial information on the whereabouts of small-scale mining locations. |
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| Keywords | artificial intelligence ; data collection ; image analysis ; spatial data ; synthetic aperture radar ; Ghana |
| Language | English |
| Dates of publication | 2022-0217 |
| Publishing place | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| Document type | Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2513863-7 |
| ISSN | 2072-4292 |
| ISSN | 2072-4292 |
| DOI | 10.3390/rs14040977 |
| Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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