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Global climate change has had a drastic impact on our environment. Previous study showed that pest disaster occured from global climate change may cause a tremendous number of trees died and they inevitably became a factor of forest fire.…

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Farmers in developing regions like Karnataka, India, face a dual challenge: navigating extreme market and climate volatility while being excluded from the digital revolution due to literacy barriers. This paper presents a novel decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Niranjan Mallikarjun Sindhur , Pavithra C , Nivya Muchikel

In this letter, we present a novel descriptor based on Urquhart tessellations derived from the position of trees in a forest. We propose a framework that uses these descriptors to detect previously seen observations and landmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Guilherme V. Nardari , Avraham Cohen , Steven W. Chen , Xu Liu , Vaibhav Arcot , Roseli A. F. Romero , Vijay Kumar

Contemporary robots in precision agriculture focus primarily on automated harvesting or remote sensing to monitor crop health. Comparatively less work has been performed with respect to collecting physical leaf samples in the field and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Merrick Campbell , Amel Dechemi , Konstantinos Karydis

This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of various classification algorithms used for the detection of exoplanets using labeled time series data from the Kepler mission. The study investigates the performance of six commonly employed…

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The current availability of soil moisture data over large areas comes from satellite remote sensing technologies (i.e., radar-based systems), but these data have coarse resolution and often exhibit large spatial information gaps. Where data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Danny Rorabaugh , Mario Guevara , Ricardo Llamas , Joy Kitson , Rodrigo Vargas , Michela Taufer

Earth observation satellites have been continuously monitoring the earth environment for years at different locations and spectral bands with different modalities. Due to complex satellite sensing conditions (e.g., weather, cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bo Peng , Hongchen Liu , Hang Zhou , Yuchuan Gou , Jui-Hsin Lai

In this letter, we use deep-learning convolution neural networks (CNNs) to assess the landslide mapping and classification performances on optical images (from Sentinel-2) and SAR images (from Sentinel-1). The training and test zones used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Lorenzo Nava , Oriol Monserrat , Filippo Catani

Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, poses detrimental consequences such as agricultural sector disruption, global warming, flash floods, and landslides. Conventional approaches to urban street tree inventory suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Asim Khan , Umair Nawaz , Anwaar Ulhaq , Iqbal Gondal , Sajid Javed

Rear-end collision warning system has a great role to enhance the driving safety. In this system some measures are used to estimate the dangers and the system warns drivers to be more cautious. The real-time processes should be executed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Fateme Teimouri , Mehdi Ghatee

Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Francesca Razzano , Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Gilda Schirinzi

Climate change has increased the vulnerability of forests to insect-related damage, resulting in widespread forest loss in Central Europe and highlighting the need for effective, continuous monitoring systems. Remote sensing based forest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Maximilian Kirsch , Jakob Wernicke , Pawan Datta , Christine Preisach

To mitigate the uncertainty of variable renewable resources, two off-the-shelf machine learning tools are deployed to forecast the solar power output of a solar photovoltaic system. The support vector machines generate the forecasts and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Mohamed Abuella , Badrul Chowdhury

Satellite-based remote sensing is instrumental in the monitoring and mitigation of the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Large scale, high resolution data derived from these sensors can be used to inform intervention and policy…

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Monitoring and controlling invasive tree species across large forests, parks, and trail networks is challenging due to limited accessibility, reliance on manual scouting, and degraded under-canopy GNSS. We present MapForest, a modular field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sandeep Zachariah , Francisco Yandun , Sachet Korada , Abhisesh Silwal

Groundwater depletion impacts the sustainability of numerous groundwater-dependent vegetation (GDV) globally, placing significant stress on their capacity to provide environmental and ecological support for flora, fauna, and anthropic…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-08 Mason Terrett , Daniel Fryer , Tanya Doody , Hien Nguyen , Pascal Castellazzi

Object detection and classification using aerial images is a challenging task as the information regarding targets are not abundant. Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) images can be used for Automatic Target Recognition(ATR) systems as it can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Sumanth Udupa , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

Nation-wide Sentinel-2 mosaics were used with National Forest Inventory (NFI) data for modelling and subsequent mapping of spruce, pine and deciduous forest in Norway in 16 m $\times$ 16 m resolution. The accuracies of the best model ranged…

In this paper, we describe the design of an inexpensive and agile climate sensor system which can be repurposed easily to measure various pollutants. We also propose the use of machine learning regression methods to calibrate CO2 data from…

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