Wind Turbine Detection on Sentinel-2 Images
N. Mandroux, Tristan Dagobert, Sébastien Drouyer, Rafael Grompone von Gioi · 2021
ESA's Sentinel- 2 satellites have been in orbit for five years, acquiring huge amounts of data all over the world. They are a formidable tool for mass detection as they are freely available. Given their importance in the energetic transition and their spread over countries or continents, wind turbines are natural candidates for such studies. We propose an automatic wind turbine detector for low resolution satellite images based on an a contrario approach, exploiting the geometry of wind turbines' shadows and hubs. Our experiments show promising detection rates, improving the state of the art in the proposed conditions.