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sentinel1-water-unet

Surface water from Sentinel-1 SAR with a U-Net (Wagner et al. 2024, Remote Sensing): PyTorch weights, SNAP preprocessing, Colab & JupyterLab notebooks

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GITHUB · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views

Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Energy & climate
  • Analytics & BI
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • amazon
  • pytorch
  • remote-sensing
  • sar
  • sentinel-1
  • unet
  • +1 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The inference code and notebooks are straightforward to wrap, but reproducing or extending the model needs labeled water-mask training data and SAR remote-sensing expertise that vibe coding cannot supply.

What it would actually take: Running the existing weights on Sentinel-1 scenes needs a preprocessing pipeline (calibration, speckle filtering, tiling) that is commonly done in SNAP or Python libraries. Building a comparable model from scratch requires a curated, validated labeled dataset of surface water across regions and seasons, plus GIS and SAR domain knowledge to evaluate it.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #28 of 60 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.

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