High-resolution remote sensing of turbidity in the coastal environment with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be adversely affected by the presence of obstructions of vessels and marine objects in images, which can introduce significant errors in turbidity modeling and predictions. This study evaluates the use of two deep-learning-based inpainting methods, namely, Decoupled Spatial–Temporal Transformer (DSTT) and Deep Image Prior (DIP), to recover the obstructed information. Aerial images of turbidity plumes in the coastal environment were first acquired using a UAV system with a multispectral sensor that included obstructions on the water surface at various obstruction percentages. The performance of the two inpainting models was then assessed through both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the inpainted data, focusing on the accuracy of turbidity retrieval. The results show that the DIP model performs well across a wide range of obstruction percentages from 10 to 70%. In comparison, the DSTT model produces good accuracy only with low percentages of less than 20% and performs poorly when the obstruction percentage increases.


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    Title :

    Enhancing Turbidity Predictions in Coastal Environments by Removing Obstructions from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Multispectral Imagery Using Inpainting Techniques


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    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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    Unknown




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