PlaNet: A Neural Network for Detecting Transverse Aeolian Ridges on Mars

Autor: Timothy Nagle-McNaughton, Timothy McClanahan, Louis Scuderi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 21, p 3607 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs12213607
Popis: Transverse aeolian ridges (TARs) are unusual bedforms on the surface of Mars. TARs are common but sparse on Mars; TAR fields are small, rarely continuous, and scattered, making manual mapping impractical. There have been many efforts to automatically classify the Martian surface, but they have never explicitly located TARs successfully. Here, we present a simple adaptation of the off-the-shelf neural network RetinaNet that is designed to identify the presence of TARs at a 50-m scale. Once trained, the network was able to identify TARs with high precision (92.9%). Our model also shows promising results for applications to other surficial features like ripples and polygonal terrain. In the future, we hope to apply this model more broadly and generate a large database of TAR distributions on Mars.
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