SGL-CNN: a dual-domain convolutional neural network harnessing spatial and frequency features for bathymetry estimation
摘要
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to model the nonlinear relationship between gravity anomalies and seafloor topography. However, most CNN-based methods operate only in the spatial domain, which limits resolution and hinders the recovery of fine-grained topographic features. To address this, we propose SGL-CNN, a novel framework that extracts multi-input features from both spatial and frequency domains. By integrating multi-component gravity anomalies with long-wavelength bathymetric data, our model simultaneously captures low-, medium-, and high-frequency seafloor components, enabling more detailed topographic reconstruction. We validate SGL-CNN in three representative regions of the Western Pacific–a slope, a seamount, and a trench–against baseline methods (ParkerO, SAS, GGM, LCNN). Accuracy and PSD results show that SGL-CNN outperforms others over seamounts and trenches. Across diverse terrains and depth ranges, its dual-domain three-branch architecture (Spatial, Global and Local Frequency) effectively handles multi-scale wavelength distributions, recovering low-, medium-, and high-frequency components corresponding to slope trends, seamount bodies, and trench fracture zones. Ablation studies confirm the necessity of the proposed architecture and the long-wavelength bathymetric input, and further validation on a high-latitude grid supports its generalizability. In summary, the synergistic fusion of spatial and spectral features in SGL-CNN overcomes spectral truncation issues in single-domain methods, achieving high-resolution bathymetric inversion.