IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing • Vol 18
Mapping Coastal Soil Salinity and Vegetation Dynamics Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data Fusion With Machine Learning Techniques
January 2025 • Wen Liu, Tiezhu Shi, Zhengyu Zhao, Chao Yang
Coastal regions are vulnerable ecosystems where monitoring soil salinity and vegetation coverage dynamics is critical for environmental management and conservation. This study introduces a multisensor data fusion approach, integrating Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery with advanced machine learning techniques, specifically a convolutional neural network (CNN) based classification model. This approach enables the precise mapping of coastal salt-affected soil and vegetati…