Monitoring Changes in Surface Water Using Satellite Image Data

prerequisites: Intermediate Python, Intermediate NumPy, Intermediate Matplotlib, Beginner TensorFlow, Basics of Deep Learning for Computer Vision
skills learned: Work with times series data, Perform image segmentation, Merge satellite imagery and perform operations on raster datasets, Data augmentation for boosting model training, Optimize and understand model performance

Daniel Buscombe

8 weeks · 5-8 hours per week · ADVANCED

In this liveProject, you’ll fill the shoes of a data scientist at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Your job involves assessing long-term changes to freshwater deposits, one of humanity’s most important resources. Recently, two European Space Agency satellites have given you a massive amount of new data in the form of satellite imagery. Your task is to build a deep learning algorithm that can process this data and automatically detect water pixels in the imagery of a region. To accomplish this, you will design, implement, and evaluate a convolutional neural network model for image pixel classification, or image segmentation. Your challenges will include compiling your data, training your model, evaluating its performance, and providing a summary of your findings to your superiors. Throughout, you’ll use the Google Collaboratory (“Colab”) coding environment to access free GPU computer resources and speed up your training times.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

book resources

When you start your liveProject, you get full access to the following books for 90 days.

project author

Daniel Buscombe

Daniel Buscombe is a geosciences researcher with 16 years experience applying innovation in computation, geostatistics, and machine learning to problems in coastal and hydraulic engineering, geophysics, hydrology and geomorphology. He has written many articles on the application of stochastic statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Dan has a PhD in nearshore oceanography from the University of Plymouth, UK.

Prerequisites

This course is for intermediate Python programmers who know basic data science techniques. You’ll augment your skills with some cutting-edge machine learning methods in demand across industry.

This course is for intermediate Python programmers. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with:

TOOLS

Basic Jupyter
Intermediate NumPy
Intermediate Matplotlib
Basic SciPy
Basic pandas

TECHNIQUES

Intermediate Python package installation using conda and pip
Basics of neural networks or multi-layer perceptrons
Basic concepts in using digital imagery for environmental monitoring

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll learn to build a large-scale deep learning model to classify satellite imagery. You’ll develop techniques for handling satellite imagery data, performing geospatial operations on your data such as coordinating transformations, and optimizing model training algorithms by tuning model architecture, learning rates, loss functions and other model hyperparameters. These skills can easily be applied to a wide variety of deep learning tasks using imagery, and beyond.

Accessing cloud data servers to download satellite imagery
Manually creating your own ground truth data from imagery
Using the VGG-JSON image annotation format
Using Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) computation on Google Colab
Merging imagery and performing operations on raster datasets
Using Keras and TensorFlow for deep learning
Evaluating model performance by comparing estimated and observed results
Data augmentation for boosting model training
Optimizing model performance using experimentation
Understanding model performance metrics (such as Dice and Jaccard scores)

features

Self-paced: You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
Project roadmap: Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
Get Help: While within the liveProject platform, get help from other participants and our expert mentors.
Compare with others: For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
book resources: Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.

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