Date of Award:

8-2022

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Computer Science

Committee Chair(s)

Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Committee

Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Committee

Xiaojun Qi

Committee

Hamid Karimi

Abstract

The monitoring of the shape and area of a water body is an essential component for many Earth science and Hydrological applications. For this purpose, these applications require remote sensing data which provides accurate analysis of the water bodies. In this thesis the same is being attempted, first, a model is created that can map the information from one kind of satellite that captures the data from a distance of 500m to another data that is captured by a different satellite at a distance of 30m. To achieve this, we first collected the data from both of the satellites and translated the data from one satellite to another using our proposed Hydro-GAN model. This translation gives us the accurate shape, boundary, and area of the water body. We evaluated the method by using several different similarity metrics for the area and the shape of the water body. The second part of this thesis involves augmenting the data that we obtained from the Hydro-GAN model with the original data and using this enriched data to predict the area of a water body in the future. We used the case study of Great Salt lake for this purpose.

The results indicated that our proposed model was creating accurate area and shape of the water bodies. When we used our proposed model to generate data at a resolution of 30m it gave us better areal and shape accuracy. If we get more data at this resolution, we can use that data to better predict coastal lines, boundaries, as well as erosion monitoring.

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