Nick Wright — Remote Sensing & Machine Learning Researcher

About Me

I'm a research scientist working on machine learning and remote sensing problems, currently focused on water and cloud detection in satellite imagery. This page collects my research and software work.

Publications

Adaptive water body detection: Integrating deep learning, normalised difference water index, and vector data for farm dam water monitoring with OmniWaterMask
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Training sensor-agnostic deep learning models for remote sensing: Achieving state-of-the-art cloud and cloud shadow identification with OmniCloudMask
Remote Sensing of Environment

CloudS2Mask: A novel deep learning approach for improved cloud and cloud shadow masking in Sentinel-2 imagery
Remote Sensing of Environment

Projects

ClassCounter
Fast class counting for NumPy arrays, PyTorch tensors, and GeoTIFFs

Smoothify
Smoothing and refining geometries derived from raster data classifications

MultiClean
Morphological cleaning of multiclass 2D numpy arrays

Sentinel-2 Grid Explorer
Visualise Sentinel-2 tile grids for planning and exploration

Live Map

BuildingRegulariser
Geometry regularisation for building footprints

OmniWaterMask
Hybrid deep learning and NDWI-based water detection tool

S2Mosaic
Cloud-free mosaics from Sentinel-2 imagery

OmniCloudMask
Generalised cloud and shadow masking using Sentinel-2 training data

CloudS2Mask
Sentinel-2 cloud and shadow detection with high accuracy

Blog

DPIRD DMA Blog
Periodic posts on Python, remote sensing, and machine learning topics

Videos

Satellite image deep learning podcast on OmniCloudMask
A chat with Robin on the satellite-image-deep-learning podcast about OmniCloudMask

FOSS4G Training sensor-agnostic deep learning models for remote sensing
A presentation on training sensor-agnostic deep learning models for remote sensing, given at FOSS4G Perth 2024

Geogeeks presentation on CloudS2Mask
A presentation on CloudS2Mask, given at Geogeeks 2024

Datasets

Farm dams of Western Australia
Vector dataset of farm dams in WA

Buildings of WA
Coarse spatial boundaries of buildings in Western Australia

Contact

Email: nickjwright91@gmail.com