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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W8-2025-447-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Detecting Marsh-to-Open-Water Transitions Using Dual-Date Sentinel-2 and DeepLabV3</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mahmoudnia</surname>
<given-names>Amirhossein</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0014-8904</ext-link>
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<addr-line>School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>29</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>X-4/W8-2025</volume>
<fpage>447</fpage>
<lpage>455</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Amirhossein Mahmoudnia</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Wetland ecosystems, critical for biodiversity and coastal resilience, face increasing threats from marsh-to-open-water transitions driven by environmental change. This study presents a deep learning approach to detect wetland loss in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR), Maryland, using Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. We employed the DeepLabV3 model with a ResNet-50 backbone for semantic segmentation to map areas of marsh degradation and conversion to open water. The model was trained on a curated dataset of Sentinel-2 images, leveraging their high spatial and temporal resolution. Preprocessing included atmospheric correction and cloud masking to ensure data quality. Under spatial 5-fold cross-validation, the model achieves F1 (change) = 82.7% (95% CI: 79.1&amp;ndash;86.0) and IoU (change) = 70.4% (95% CI: 66.0&amp;ndash;74.6) on held-out test tiles, with Overall Accuracy = 94.3% (95% CI: 93.0&amp;ndash;95.6) and Balanced Accuracy = 89.0% (95% CI: 87.0&amp;ndash;91.0). As an operational check on the full scene, we obtain OA = 95.31%, F1(change) = 83.76%, IoU(change) = 72.07%. The results reveal notable wetland loss within BNWR, identifying priority areas for conservation. This study demonstrates the efficacy of integrating deep learning with Sentinel-2 imagery for high-resolution environmental monitoring and offers a scalable framework for wetland management.</p>
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