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While traditional bathymetry surveys using echo-sounding techniques are expensive and time consuming, remote sensing tools have recently emerged as reliable and inexpensive data sources that can be used to estimate bathymetry using depth inversion models. Deep learning is a growing field of artificial intelligence that allows for the automatic construction of models from data and has been successfully used for various Earth observation and model inversion applications. In this work, we make use of publicly available Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and multiple bathymetry surveys to train a deep learning-based bathymetry estimation model. We explore for the first time two complementary approaches, based on color information but also wave kinematics, as inputs to the deep learning model. This offers the possibility to derive bathymetry not only in clear waters as previously done with deep learning models but also at common turbid coastal zones. We show competitive results with a state-of-the-art physical inversion method for satellite-derived bathymetry, Satellite to Shores (S2Shores), demonstrating a promising direction for worldwide applicability of deep learning models to inverse bathymetry from satellite imagery and a novel use of deep learning models in Earth observation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14051196","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,28]],"date-time":"2022-02-28T20:11:57Z","timestamp":1646079117000},"page":"1196","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["Coastal Bathymetry Estimation from Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery: Comparing Deep Learning and Physics-Based Approaches"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7021-132X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mahmoud Al","family":"Najar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"LEGOS, CNRS, UMR-5566, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"ISAE-SUPAERO, 10 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31055 Toulouse, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0995-0507","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rachid","family":"Benshila","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LEGOS, CNRS, UMR-5566, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Youssra El","family":"Bennioui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LEGOS, IRD, UMR-5566, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1779-2839","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gr\u00e9goire","family":"Thoumyre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LEGOS, IRD, UMR-5566, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5842-658X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rafael","family":"Almar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LEGOS, IRD, UMR-5566, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7638-1108","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erwin W. 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