arXiv:2606.29134cs.CV2026-06

用土地覆盖先验提升单时相SAR洪水分割精度,尤其在无灾前影像时更有效。

Beyond Backscatter: AlphaEarth Land-Cover Priors for Rapid SAR Flood Segmentation Across Foundation Backbones

论文配图:Beyond Backscatter: AlphaEarth Land-Cover Priors for Rapid SAR Flood Segmentation Across Foundation Backbones
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  • 引入稳定土地覆盖先验(AlphaEarth)增强SAR洪水分割
  • AlphaEarth在佛罗里达飓风事件中所有模型上均优于数字高程模型
  • 适合需快速应急响应且缺乏灾前光学影像的场景

快速洪水制图对应急响应至关重要,但重大洪涝期间光学影像常不可用,而单时相合成孔径雷达(SAR)因新淹没区、永久水体及其他光滑表面回波相似而存在歧义。本研究评估在无注册、季节匹配灾前影像时,稳定土地上下文先验是否可提升灾后SAR洪水分割性能。基于ImpactMesh-Flood的美国本土(CONUS)子集,对比四种不同预训练范式的骨干网络——从零开始训练的CNN UNet、ImageNet预训练UNet、SAR预训练TerraMind Vision Transformer、光学卫星预训练DINOv3 Vision Transformer——在仅SAR、SAR+DEM及SAR+AlphaEarth三种配置下的表现,采用相同融合设计、训练协议与事件分层划分。模型在验证事件上选择,并在飓风佛罗里达和路易斯安那洪水两场独立事件上分别评估,辅以三种子初始化报告。两种辅助先验均优于仅使用SAR的基线,无论骨干网络或测试事件。AlphaEarth在更具挑战性的佛罗里达事件中对所有骨干网络均超越DEM,取得最佳交并比(IoU);DEM在路易斯安那事件中表现更优,取得最高结果。种子分析揭示:DEM在初始化间更稳定,而AlphaEarth提供更高峰值性能与更强召回率,尤其在困难事件中。跨事件差异与洪水类别分布及与训练分布的相似性相关,强调需按事件独立评估。本研究将单时相SAR洪水分割重构为雷达观测与稳定地表先验之间的对齐问题,学习型与物理上下文构成互补路径,助力更可靠的快速洪水制图。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Rapid flood mapping is critical for emergency response, yet optical imagery is often unusable during major flooding and single-temporal SAR is ambiguous, since new inundation, permanent water, and other smooth surfaces produce similar backscatter. This study evaluates whether stable land-context priors can improve post-event SAR flood segmentation when a registered, seasonally matched pre-event acquisition is unavailable. Using the CONUS (Continental United States) subset of ImpactMesh-Flood, we compare four backbones spanning distinct pretraining regimes-a from-scratch CNN UNet, an ImageNet-pretrained UNet, the SAR-pretrained TerraMind Vision Transformer, and the optical-satellite-pretrained DINOv3 Vision Transformer-in SAR-only, SAR+DEM, and SAR+AlphaEarth configurations under an identical fusion design, training protocol, and event-stratified split. Models are selected on a validation flood event and evaluated separately on two held-out events, Hurricane Florence and the Louisiana floods, with three-seed reporting for auxiliary configurations. Both auxiliary priors improve over the observed SAR-only baselines across all backbones and test events. AlphaEarth exceeds DEM on the harder Florence event for every backbone and achieves the best Florence IoU, while DEM is competitive on Louisiana and produces the best result there. The seed analysis reveals a trade-off: DEM is more stable across initializations, whereas AlphaEarth offers higher peak performance and higher recall on the harder event. Cross-event differences track flood-class prevalence and similarity to the training distribution, underscoring the need for per-event evaluation. We reframe single-temporal SAR flood segmentation as an alignment between radar observations and stable land-surface priors, where learned and physical context offer complementary pathways to more reliable rapid flood mapping.

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