Shallow sea water depth remote sensing extraction method based on physical constraint deep learning
By employing a physical constraint-based deep learning method, combined with multi-scale input and spectral reconstruction branches, the accuracy and reliability issues of satellite remote sensing depth in deep water areas were resolved, enabling high-precision underwater terrain extraction and cross-regional applications.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- NANJING UNIV
- Filing Date
- 2026-01-22
- Publication Date
- 2026-04-28
AI Technical Summary
Existing satellite remote sensing depth sensing technologies suffer from reduced accuracy, physical unreliability, and weak generalization ability in deep water areas (20-30 meters), especially in complex water environments such as coral reefs and clear nearshore waters.
We employ a physical constraint-based deep learning approach, extracting multi-level feature maps through multi-scale input tensors and hierarchical transformers. We combine water depth prediction and spectral reconstruction branches, use a composite loss function for end-to-end training, and introduce physical constraints to ensure that the model conforms to the laws of marine optics.
It achieves high-precision and stable underwater terrain extraction across the entire water depth range, possesses excellent cross-regional generalization ability and interpretability, solves the problem of sharp drop in accuracy caused by signal attenuation in deep water areas, and improves the reliability and generalization ability of the model.
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