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The increasing number of Photovoltaic (PV) systems connected to the power grid are vulnerable to the projection of shadows from moving clouds. Global Solar Irradiance (GSI) forecasting allows smart grids to optimize the energy dispatch,…

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Detecting and masking cloud and cloud shadow from satellite remote sensing images is a pervasive problem in the remote sensing community. Accurate and efficient detection of cloud and cloud shadow is an essential step to harness the value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ke Xu , Kaiyu Guan , Jian Peng , Yunan Luo , Sibo Wang

About half of all optical observations collected via spaceborne satellites are affected by haze or clouds. Consequently, cloud coverage affects the remote sensing practitioner's capabilities of a continuous and seamless monitoring of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Patrick Ebel , Yajin Xu , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Accurate identification of unobservable regions in nighttime is essential for autonomous scheduling and data quality control in observations.Traditional methods-such as infrared sensing or photometric extinction-provide only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jian Cui , Guo-Wang Du , Xin-Zhong Er , Chu-Xiang Li , Jun-Fan Hou , Yu-Xin Xin , Xiang-kun Liu , Xiao-Wei Liu

Most ground-based observatories are equipped with wide-angle all-sky cameras to monitor the night sky conditions. Such camera systems can be used to provide early warning of incoming clouds that can pose a danger to the telescope equipment…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Michael Mommert

Optical remote sensing imagery has been widely used in many fields due to its high resolution and stable geometric properties. However, remote sensing imagery is inevitably affected by climate, especially clouds. Removing the cloud in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Heng Pan

Semantic segmentation necessitates approaches that learn high-level characteristics while dealing with enormous amounts of data. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can learn unique and adaptive features to achieve this aim. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hasan AlMarzouqi , Lyes Saad Saoud

The interest for change detection in the field of remote sensing has increased in the last few years. Searching for changes in satellite images has many useful applications, ranging from land cover and land use analysis to anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Antonio Di Pilato , Nicolò Taggio , Alexis Pompili , Michele Iacobellis , Adriano Di Florio , Davide Passarelli , Sergio Samarelli

Convolutional neural networks use pooling and other downscaling operations to maintain translational invariance for detection of features, but in their architecture they do not explicitly maintain a representation of the locations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Prem Nair , Rohan Doshi , Stefan Keselj

This paper presents an innovative framework for remote sensing image analysis by fusing deep learning techniques, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, with Geographic Information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sajjad Afroosheh , Mohammadreza Askari

Detecting clouds and snow in remote sensing images is an essential preprocessing task for remote sensing imagery. Previous works draw inspiration from semantic segmentation models in computer vision, with most research focusing on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zili Liu , Hao Chen , Wenyuan Li , Keyan Chen , Zipeng Qi , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

X-ray micro-computed tomography (X-ray microCT) has enabled the characterization of the properties and processes that take place in plants and soils at the micron scale. Despite the widespread use of this advanced technique, major…

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has delivered valuable sensing of surface soil moisture since 2015. However, it has a short time span and irregular revisit schedule. Utilizing a state-of-the-art time-series deep learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-26 Kuai Fang , Chaopeng Shen , Daniel Kifer , Xiao Yang

State-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms generally consist of at least two successive and distinct computations: a boundary detection process that uses local image information to classify image locations as boundaries between objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michał Januszewski , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , Peter Li , Jörgen Kornfeld , Winfried Denk , Viren Jain

Satellite images are often contaminated by clouds. Cloud removal has received much attention due to the wide range of satellite image applications. As the clouds thicken, the process of removing the clouds becomes more challenging. In such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Faramarz Naderi Darbaghshahi , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohsen Soryani

Automated detection of grain boundaries (GBs) in electron microscope images of polycrystalline materials could help accelerate the nanoscale characterization of myriad engineering materials and novel materials under scientific research.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Doruk Aksoy , Huolin L. Xin , Timothy J. Rupert , William J. Bowman

Modeling the sequential information of image sequences has been a vital step of various vision tasks and convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) has demonstrated its superb performance in such spatiotemporal problems. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Bin Kong , Xin Wang , Junjie Bai , Yi Lu , Feng Gao , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Shaoting Zhang , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin

Large datasets of sub-meter aerial imagery represented as orthophoto mosaics are widely available today, and these data sets may hold a great deal of untapped information. This imagery has a potential to locate several types of features;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-03 Nagesh Kumar Uba

We present a framework for cloud characterization that leverages modern unsupervised deep learning technologies. While previous neural network-based cloud classification models have used supervised learning methods, unsupervised learning…

The land cover classification has played an important role in remote sensing because it can intelligently identify things in one huge remote sensing image to reduce the work of humans. However, a lot of classification methods are designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Fan Zhang , MinChao Yan , Chen Hu , Jun Ni , Fei Ma