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Deforestation estimation and fire detection in the Amazon forest poses a significant challenge due to the vast size of the area and the limited accessibility. However, these are crucial problems that lead to severe environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Gabor Fodor , Marcos V. Conde

Deforestation has become a significant contributing factor to climate change and, due to this, both classifying the drivers and predicting segmentation maps of deforestation has attracted significant interest. In this work, we develop a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Joshua Mitton , Roderick Murray-Smith

The estimation of deforestation in the Amazon Forest is challenge task because of the vast size of the area and the difficulty of direct human access. However, it is a crucial problem in that deforestation results in serious environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Dongoo Lee , Yeonju Choi

It is important problem to accurately estimate deforestation of satellite imagery since this approach can analyse extensive area without direct human access. However, it is not simple problem because of difficulty in observing the clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Seunghan Park , Dongoo Lee , Yeonju Choi , SungTae Moon

Global environment monitoring is a task that requires additional attention in the contemporary rapid climate change environment. This includes monitoring the rate of deforestation and areas affected by flooding. Satellite imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Dmytro Filatov , Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar

The Amazon rainforests have been suffering widespread damage, both via natural and artificial means. Every minute, it is estimated that the world loses forest cover the size of 48 football fields. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Somnath Rakshit , Soumyadeep Debnath , Dhiman Mondal

The Amazon rain forest is a vital ecosystem that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate and providing habitat for countless species. Deforestation in the Amazon is a major concern as it has a significant impact on global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Nathalie Neptune , Josiane Mothe

Vegetation is the natural linkage connecting soil, atmosphere and water. It can represent the change of land cover to a certain extent and serve as an indicator for global change research. Methods for measuring coverage can be divided into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Chunxue Wu , Bobo Ju , Naixue Xiong , Guisong Yang , Yan Wu , Hongming Yang , Jiaying Huang , Zhiyong Xu

The preservation of the Amazon Rainforest is one of the global priorities in combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, and safeguarding indigenous cultures. The Satellite-based Monitoring Project of Deforestation in the Brazilian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Christian Massao Konishi , Helio Pedrini

Tropical forests represent the home of many species on the planet for flora and fauna, retaining billions of tons of carbon footprint, promoting clouds and rain formation, implying a crucial role in the global ecosystem, besides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Guilherme A. Pimenta , Fernanda B. J. R. Dallaqua , Alvaro Fazenda , Fabio A. Faria

Accurate identification of deforestation from satellite images is essential in order to understand the geographical situation of an area. This paper introduces a new distributed approach to identify as well as locate deforestation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuvraj Dutta , Aaditya Sikder , Basabdatta Palit

Aerial image segmentation is the basis for applications such as automatically creating maps or tracking deforestation. In true orthophotos, which are often used in these applications, many objects and regions can be approximated well by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Daniel Gritzner , Jörn Ostermann

Characterizing the processes leading to deforestation is critical to the development and implementation of targeted forest conservation and management policies. In this work, we develop a deep learning model called ForestNet to classify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jeremy Irvin , Hao Sheng , Neel Ramachandran , Sonja Johnson-Yu , Sharon Zhou , Kyle Story , Rose Rustowicz , Cooper Elsworth , Kemen Austin , Andrew Y. Ng

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

The stability and ability of an ecosystem to withstand climate change is directly linked to its biodiversity. Dead trees are a key indicator of overall forest health, housing one-third of forest ecosystem biodiversity, and constitute 8%of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jacquelyn A. Shelton , Przemyslaw Polewski , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

Deforestation detection using satellite images can make an important contribution to forest management. Current approaches can be broadly divided into those that compare two images taken at similar periods of the year and those that monitor…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-05 Emiliano Diaz

With its vast expanse, exceeding that of Western Europe by twice, the Amazon rainforest stands as the largest forest of the Earth, holding immense importance in global climate regulation. Yet, deforestation detection from remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carla Nascimento Neves , Raul Queiroz Feitosa , Mabel X. Ortega Adarme , Gilson Antonio Giraldi

This paper is devoted to the problem of detection of forest and non-forest areas on Earth images. We propose two statistical methods to tackle this problem: one based on multiple hypothesis testing with parametric distribution families,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jesper Muren , Vilhelm Niklasson , Dmitry Otryakhin , Maxim Romashin

Due to climate change, the extreme wildfire has become one of the most dangerous natural hazards to human civilization. Even though, some wildfires may be initially caused by human activity, but the spread of wildfires is mainly determined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Qijun Chen , Shaofan Li

Forests are vital for the wellbeing of our planet. Large and small scale deforestation across the globe is threatening the stability of our climate, forest biodiversity, and therefore the preservation of fragile ecosystems and our natural…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Johannes N. Hansen , Edward T. A. Mitchard , Stuart King
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