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Data collected by Earth-observing (EO) satellites are often afflicted by cloud cover. Detecting the presence of clouds -- which is increasingly done using deep learning -- is crucial preprocessing in EO applications. In fact, advanced EO…

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Despite the tremendous progress of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) in developing vision tasks such as image and video, exploring MAE in large-scale 3D point clouds remains challenging due to the inherent irregularity. In contrast to previous 3D…

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This paper presents the development and implementation of a cloud detection algorithm for Proba-V. Accurate and automatic detection of clouds in satellite scenes is a key issue for a wide range of remote sensing applications. With no…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Luis Gómez-Chova , Gonzalo Mateo-García , Jordi Muñoz-Marí , Gustau Camps-Valls

Being able to effectively identify clouds and monitor their evolution is one important step toward more accurate quantitative precipitation estimation and forecast. In this study, a new gradient-based cloud-image segmentation technique is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Negin Hayatbini , Kuo-lin Hsu , Soroosh Sorooshian , Yunji Zhang , Fuqing Zhang

We analyze clouds in the earth's atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras. An accurate segmentation of clouds in the captured sky/cloud image is difficult, owing to the fuzzy boundaries of clouds. Several techniques have been proposed that…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Soumyabrata Dev , Atul Nautiyal , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

For monitoring the night sky conditions, wide-angle all-sky cameras are used in most astronomical observatories to monitor the sky cloudiness. In this manuscript, we apply a deep-learning approach for automating the identification of…

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The rapid accumulation of Earth observation data presents a formidable challenge for the processing capabilities of traditional remote sensing desktop software, particularly when it comes to analyzing expansive geographical areas and…

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Monitoring vegetation dynamics is crucial for addressing global environmental challenges like degradation and deforestation, but traditional remote sensing methods are often complex and resource-intensive. To overcome these barriers, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Md. Moktader Moula , Israt Jahan Shonom , Azharul Islam , Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain

This work explores capabilities of the pre-trained CLIP vision-language model to identify satellite images affected by clouds. Several approaches to using the model to perform cloud presence detection are proposed and evaluated, including a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Robert Atkinson , Christos Tachtatzis

Detecting marine objects inshore presents challenges owing to algorithmic intricacies and complexities in system deployment. We propose a difficulty-aware edge-cloud collaborative sensing system that splits the task into object localization…

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The use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has increased tremendously in the current decade. They have significantly advanced remote sensing with the capability to deploy and image the terrain as per required spatial, spectral, temporal, and…

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In this paper we address the challenge of land cover classification for satellite images via Deep Learning (DL). Land Cover aims to detect the physical characteristics of the territory and estimate the percentage of land occupied by a…

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We present a deep learning model with temporal memory to detect clouds in image time series acquired by the Seviri imager mounted on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. The model provides pixel-level cloud maps with related…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Devis Tuia , Benjamin Kellenberger , Adrian Pérez-Suay , Gustau Camps-Valls

Robust road detection is a key challenge in safe autonomous driving. Recently, with the rapid development of 3D sensors, more and more researchers are trying to fuse information across different sensors to improve the performance of road…

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Satellites equipped with optical sensors capture high-resolution imagery, providing valuable insights into various environmental phenomena. In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on addressing some challenges in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Loddo Fabio , Dario Piga , Michelucci Umberto , El Ghazouali Safouane

We present our experiences using cloud computing to support data-intensive analytics on satellite imagery for commercial applications. Drawing from our background in high-performance computing, we draw parallels between the early days of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Michael S. Warren , Samuel W. Skillman , Rick Chartrand , Tim Kelton , Ryan Keisler , David Raleigh , Matthew Turk

Clouds significantly affect the quality of optical satellite images, which seriously limits their precise application. Recently, deep learning has been widely applied to cloud detection and has achieved satisfactory results. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shaocong Zhu , Zhiwei Li , Xinghua Li , Huanfeng Shen

Airplane detection from satellite imagery is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds in the images and differences in data acquisition conditions caused by the sensor geometry and atmospheric effects. Deep learning methods provide…

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Clouds classification is a great challenge in meteorological research. The different types of clouds, currently known and present in our skies, can produce radioactive effects that impact on the variation of atmospheric conditions, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

The complex background in the soil image collected in the field natural environment will affect the subsequent soil image recognition based on machine vision. Segmenting the soil center area from the soil image can eliminate the influence…

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