The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction

The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 da...

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Main Authors: Fabien H. Wagner, Samuel Favrichon, Ricardo Dalagnol, Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Adugna Mullissa, Sassan Saatchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-03-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
surface water mapping
synthetic aperture radar
deep learning
U-net
image segmentation
near-real time
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/6/1056

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