A purely spaceborne open source approach for regional bathymetry mapping: Bahamas Median DEM

Citation Author(s):
Nathan
Thomas
University of Maryland/NASA GSFC
Brian
Lee
University of California Santa Barbara
Oliver
Coutts
Aberystwyth University
Pete
Bunting
Aberystwyth University
David
Lagomasino
East Carolina University
Lola
Fatoyinbo
NASA GSFC
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Nathan Thomas
Last updated:
Mon, 06/20/2022 - 12:48
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10.21227/dwex-hm52
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Abstract 

Timely and up-to-date bathymetry maps over large geographical areas have been difficult to create, due to the cost and difficulty of collecting in situ calibration and validation data. Recently, combinations of spaceborne ICESat-2 lidar data and Landsat/Sentinel-2 data have reduced these obstacles. However, to date there have been no means of automatically extracting bathymetry photons from ICESat-2 tracks for model calibration/validation and no well established open source workflows for generating regional scale bathymetric models. Here we provide an open source approach for generating bathymetry maps for the shallow water region around the island of Andros, Bahamas. We demonstrate an efficient means of processing 224 ICESat-2 tracks and 221 Landsat-8 scenes, using the C-SHELPh algorithm and Extra Trees Regression to provide 30 m pixel estimates of per-pixel depth and standard error. We map bathymetry with an RMSE of 0.32 m and RMSE% of 6.7 \%. Our workflow and results demonstrate a means of achieving accurate regional--scale bathymetry maps from purely spaceborne data.

Instructions: 

A median composite DEM derived from a fusion of ICESat-2 and Landsat-8 data, created with a Extra Trees Regressor. Units are in m depth.

Funding Agency: 
NASA: Investigations with ICESat-2

Comments

BAHAMAS MEDIAN DEM

Submitted by Rengar Lee on Tue, 12/06/2022 - 10:08

I'd liko to che the demo 

Submitted by Andres Quintana on Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:19