Wavelet-fusion image super-resolution model with deep learning for downscaling remotely-sensed, multi-band spectral albedo imagery
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Karalasingham, Sagthitharan, Deo, Ravinesh C., Casillas-Perez, David, Raj, Nawin and Salcedo-sanz, Sancho. 2024. "Wavelet-fusion image super-resolution model with deep learning for downscaling remotely-sensed, multi-band spectral albedo imagery." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101333
Article Title | Wavelet-fusion image super-resolution model with deep learning for downscaling remotely-sensed, multi-band spectral albedo imagery |
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ERA Journal ID | 211288 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Karalasingham, Sagthitharan, Deo, Ravinesh C., Casillas-Perez, David, Raj, Nawin and Salcedo-sanz, Sancho |
Journal Title | Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment |
Journal Citation | 36 |
Article Number | 101333 |
Number of Pages | 29 |
Year | 2024 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 2352-9385 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101333 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352938524001976 |
Abstract | Generating granular-scale surface albedo data is extremely important for solar photovoltaic site planning and to optimise renewable energy yield of bifacial panel installations. The albedo effect brings about a significant increase in power in bifacial photovoltaic systems, compared to their mono-facial counterparts, since the spectral response of bifacial solar panels correlates with the incident solar radiation wavelength on the back of the panel, to provide additional power generation capacity. Thus, harnessing the albedo data at relatively local scales is critical towards boosting solar power generation and providing greater power density in local electricity grids. This paper develops novel modelling approaches to produce high-resolution spectral albedo imagery across the Visible and Near Infrared (VNIR) bands, using the Wavelet-Fusion super-resolution model (i.e., Wavelet-FusionSR) trained with the Learned Gamma Correction approach by applying satellite image enhancement methodology. The proposed Wavelet-FusionSR model utilises the low-resolution moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) as well as high-resolution multi-spectral Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite images, as critical inputs and ground-truth imagery, respectively, in order to perform sensor-to-sensor deep downscaling, without employing any synthetic or low-resolution satellite imagery data pairs. To augment the proposed deep learning algorithm across the decomposed sub-images of low-resolution inputs, we integrate local and global feature representation learning to train the proposed Wavelet-FusionSR model with Cauchy loss functions. In comparison with five competing benchmark models, the proposed Wavelet-FusionSR model demonstrates performance superiority using quantitative image downscaling metrics and visual assessments of the downscaled images for the visible band of solar radiation. The proposed Wavelet-FusionSR model yielded a Mean Square Error (MSE) of 0.00017, Signal-to-noise-ratio (PSNR) of 37.80, Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) of 0.999 and combined loss, MS-SSIMLoss, based on Multi Structural Similarity and Mean Absolute Error of 2.354 for the Visible Band images, and an MSE of 0.0014, PSNR of 28.43, SSIM of 0.999 and MS-SSIMLoss of 7.426 for the NIR spectral bands, demonstrating high efficacy of the proposed Wavelet-FusionSR method. The Wavelet-FusionSR method therefore attains high-resolution spectral albedo imagery outputs. © 2024 The Author(s) |
Keywords | Bifacial PV; Spectral albedo; PV yield modelling; Reflected solar radiation |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 461103. Deep learning |
Byline Affiliations | School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing |
Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain | |
University of Alcala, Spain |
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