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Rain fills the atmosphere with water particles, which breaks the common assumption that light travels unaltered from the scene to the camera. While it is well-known that rain affects computer vision algorithms, quantifying its impact is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Maxime Tremblay , Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Raoul de Charette , Jean-François Lalonde

Accurate precipitation forecasting is crucial for early warnings of disasters, such as floods and landslides. Traditional forecasts rely on ground-based radar systems, which are space-constrained and have high maintenance costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Young-Jae Park , Doyi Kim , Minseok Seo , Hae-Gon Jeon , Yeji Choi

Remote sensing images often suffer from cloud cover. Cloud removal is required in many applications of remote sensing images. Multitemporal-based methods are popular and effective to cope with thick clouds. This paper contributes to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Chengyue Zhang , Zhiwei Li , Qing Cheng , Xinghua Li , Huanfeng Shen

As climate change drives increased frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation and flooding worldwide, posing escalating threats to public safety and economic assets, accurate and real-time satellite-based precipitation estimation is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Zijiang Song , Ting Liu , Lina Yuan , Yuying Li , Ao Xu , Xigang Sun , Ye Li , Feng Lu , Min Liu

During the acquisition of satellite images, there is generally a trade-off between spatial resolution and temporal resolution (acquisition frequency) due to the onboard sensors of satellite imaging systems. High-resolution satellite images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhaoxu Luo , Bowen Song , Liyue Shen

A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights that water-related disasters have caused the highest human losses among natural disasters over the past 50 years, with over 91\% of deaths occurring in low-income…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ting-Yu Dai , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa

Clouds in satellite images are a deterrent to qualitative and quantitative study. Time compositing methods compare a series of co-registered images and retrieve only those pixels that have comparatively lesser cloud cover for the resultant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Atma Bharathi Mani , Nagashree TR , Manavalan P , Diwakar PG

Connected vehicles are poised to transform the field of environmental sensing by enabling acquisition of scientific data at unprecedented scales. Drawing on a real-world dataset collected from almost 70 connected vehicles, this study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-29 Matthew Bartos , Hyongju Park , Tian Zhou , Branko Kerkez , Ramanarayan Vasudevan

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

This study proposes a data fusion method for multiradar systems to enable measurement of the respiration of multiple people located at arbitrary positions. Using the proposed method, the individual respiration rates of multiple people can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Shunsuke Iwata , Takato Koda , Takuya Sakamoto

Accurate and timely rain prediction is crucial for decision making and is also a challenging task. This paper presents a solution which won the 2 nd prize in the Weather4cast 2022 NeurIPS competition using 3D U-Nets and EarthFormers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Li , Haiyu Dong , Zuliang Fang , Jonathan Weyn , Pete Luferenko

Change detection in heterogeneous multitemporal satellite images is a challenging and still not much studied topic in remote sensing and earth observation. This paper focuses on comparison of image pairs covering the same geographical area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Luigi Tommaso Luppino , Stian Normann Anfinsen , Gabriele Moser , Robert Jenssen , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Sebastiano Serpico , Gregoire Mercier

Hyperspectral imaging has become a significant source of valuable data for astronomers over the past decades. Current instrumental and observing time constraints allow direct acquisition of multispectral images, with high spatial but low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Olivier Berné , Nicolas Dobigeon

This paper introduces a new Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of passive microwave rainfall retrieval. The proposed methodology relies on a regularization technique and makes use of two joint dictionaries of coincidental rainfall…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-07 Ardeshir Mohammad Ebtehaj , Rafael Luis Bras , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

There are many image fusion methods that can be used to produce high-resolution mutlispectral images from a high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) image and low-resolution multispectral (MS) of remote sensed images. This paper attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar , Ali A. Al-Zaky

Reliable precipitation monitoring is essential for disaster risk reduction, water resources management, and agricultural decision-making. Multi-source satellite observations, particularly the combination of geostationary infrared and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yunfan Yang , Haofei Sun , Xiuyu Sun , Wei Han , Xiaoze Xu , Xingtao Song , Jun Li , Zhiqiu Gao , Wei Huang , Hao Li

A large variety of geospatial data layers is available around the world ranging from remotely-sensed raster data like satellite imagery, digital elevation models, predicted land cover maps, and human-annotated data, to data derived from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Arjun Rao , Esther Rolf

This paper reviews the most important information fusion data-driven algorithms based on Machine Learning (ML) techniques for problems in Earth observation. Nowadays we observe and model the Earth with a wealth of observations, from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 S. Salcedo-Sanz , P. Ghamisi , M. Piles , M. Werner , L. Cuadra , A. Moreno-Martínez , E. Izquierdo-Verdiguier , J. Muñoz-Marí , Amirhosein Mosavi , G. Camps-Valls

Optical Earth observation satellites acquire images worldwide , covering up to several million square kilometers every day. The complexity of scheduling acquisitions for such systems increases exponentially when considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Adrien Hadj-Salah , Rémi Verdier , Clément Caron , Mathieu Picard , Mikaël Capelle

Rapid identification and response to breaking events, particularly those that pose a threat to human life such as natural disasters or conflicts, is of paramount importance. The prevalence of mobile devices and the ubiquity of network…

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