Abstract
Satellite-based InSAR images have the potential to detect volcanic
deformation prior to eruptions, but while a vast number of images are
routinely acquired, only a small percentage contain volcanic deformation
events. Manual inspection could miss these anomalies, and an automatic
system modelled with supervised learning requires suitably labelled
datasets. To tackle these issues, this paper explores the use of
unsupervised deep learning on InSAR images for the purpose of
identifying volcanic deformation as anomalies. We test three different
state-of-the-art architectures, one convolutional neural network (PaDiM
- Patch Distribution Modeling) and two generative models (GANomaly and
DDPM). We propose a preprocessing approach to deal with noisy and
incomplete data points. We further improve the performance of PaDiM by
using a weighted distance, assigning greater importance to features from
deeper layers. The final framework was tested with four different
volcanoes, which have different characteristics and its performance was
compared against an existing supervised learning method for volcanic
deformation detection. The experiments show that our final anomaly
detection outperforms the supervised learning, particularly where the
characteristics of deformation are unknown. Our framework can thus be
used to identify deformation at volcanoes without needing prior
knowledge about the deformation patterns present there.