提出轻量级卫星甲烷检测流水线,实现实时高效泄漏识别。
A Fast Methane Detection Pipeline on Board Satellites Based on Mag1c-SAS and LinkNet

- 采用快速目标检测算法Mag1c-SAS与LinkNet模型,降低计算开销。
- 在EMIT-MSeg数据集上提升AUPRC超30个百分点,F1得分提高4个百分点。
- 系统功耗低、资源占用少,适合部署于卫星等边缘设备。
甲烷是强效温室气体,利用高光谱卫星图像早期发现泄漏有助于减缓气候变化。然而,多数现有高光谱任务仅依赖人工手动靶向成像,易遗漏关键事件。为应对下行速率受限问题,星载实时检测成为可行方案。但传统甲烷检测方法计算复杂,难以在资源受限的星载硬件上运行。本文聚焦高效低功耗算法,首次测试适用于甲烷检测的快速目标检测方法ACE与CEM,提出Mag1c-SAS——当前最优算法Mag1c的显著加速版本。结合基于U-Net和LinkNet的机器学习模型,在STARCOP与新提出的EMIT-MSeg数据集上评估性能。结果表明,Mag1c-SAS比原版快约80倍,视觉效果相似但更噪;与轻量级LinkNet结合后有效降噪,在EMIT-MSeg上AUPRC提升超30个百分点,STARCOP上F1得分高出约4个百分点。验证两种新型波段选择策略,并通过硬件剖析确认系统星载可行性,实现极低功耗及高效CPU/RAM利用。项目代码、模型与数据已开源,并发布用户友好的轻量级PyPI库:https://pypi.org/project/onboard-methane-detection/。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and detecting leaks early via hyperspectral satellite imagery can help climate change mitigation efforts. Meanwhile, many existing hyperspectral missions only capture areas manually targeted by operators, thus missing potential events of interest. To overcome slow downlink rates cost-effectively, onboard detection is a viable solution. However, traditional methane detection methods are too computationally demanding for resource-limited onboard hardware. This work accelerates methane detection by focusing on efficient, low-power algorithms. In particular, we test fast target detection ACE and CEM methods that have not been previously used for methane detection and propose Mag1c-SAS -- a significantly faster variant of the current state-of-the-art Mag1c algorithm. To explore their detection potential, we integrate them with a machine learning model based on U-Net and LinkNet. We evaluate our methods on the STARCOP dataset and a novel EMIT-MSeg dataset, which we introduce and open-source alongside a high-quality annotation strategy. The proposed Mag1c-SAS approach proves highly effective by operating ~80x faster than the original Mag1c approach, providing a visually similar, but noisier result. When additionally paired with the lightweight LinkNet approach, it effectively reduces noise, achieving AUPRC score improvements of over 30 pp on EMIT-MSeg compared to the baseline Mag1c approach, and an F1 score on STARCOP ~4 pp higher. We evaluate two novel band selection strategies and confirm the system's onboard viability through hardware profiling, demonstrating marginal power consumption and efficient CPU/RAM utilization. We release the final system in a user-friendly and lightweight PyPI library at: https://pypi.org/project/onboard-methane-detection/, alongside all experimental code, models, and data at: https://github.com/zaitra/methane-filters-benchmark.
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