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In recent years, increased wildfires have caused irreversible damage to forest resources worldwide, threatening wildlives and human living conditions. The lack of accurate frontline information in real-time can pose great risks to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Tai Yang , Shumeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Jialei Liu

Wildfires are one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in the US, causing damage to millions of hectares of forest resources and threatening the lives of people and animals. Of particular importance are risks to firefighters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Liming Zheng , Peter Z Fulé , Erik Blasch

In recent years wildfires have caused havoc across the world, especially aggravated in certain regions, due to climate change. Remote sensing has become a powerful tool for monitoring fires, as well as for measuring their effects on…

Applications · Statistics 2021-05-24 Feliu Serra-Burriel , Pedro Delicado , Fernando M. Cucchietti

Satellite remote sensing is playing an increasing role in the rapid mapping of damage after natural disasters. In particular, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can image the Earth's surface and map damage in all weather conditions, day and…

Data-driven medium-range weather forecasting has attracted much attention in recent years. However, the forecasting accuracy at high resolution is unsatisfactory currently. Pursuing high-resolution and high-quality weather forecasting, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Lei Chen , Fei Du , Yuan Hu , Fan Wang , Zhibin Wang

The size and frequency of wildland fires in the western United States have dramatically increased in recent years. On high-fire-risk days, a small fire ignition can rapidly grow and become out of control. Early detection of fire ignitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anshuman Dewangan , Yash Pande , Hans-Werner Braun , Frank Vernon , Ismael Perez , Ilkay Altintas , Garrison W. Cottrell , Mai H. Nguyen

We consider how image super resolution (SR) can contribute to an object detection task in low-resolution images. Intuitively, SR gives a positive impact on the object detection task. While several previous works demonstrated that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Muhammad Haris , Greg Shakhnarovich , Norimichi Ukita

We propose a novel concept of operations using optimal planning methods and machine learning (ML) to collect spaceborne data that is unprecedented for monitoring wildfires, process it to create new or enhanced products in the context of…

Running high-resolution physical models is computationally expensive and essential for many disciplines. Agriculture, transportation, and energy are sectors that depend on high-resolution weather models, which typically consume many hours…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Eduardo R. Rodrigues , Igor Oliveira , Renato L. F. Cunha , Marco A. S. Netto

While depth sensors are becoming increasingly popular, their spatial resolution often remains limited. Depth super-resolution therefore emerged as a solution to this problem. Despite much progress, state-of-the-art techniques suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Wildfires pose a threat to ecosystems, economies and public safety, particularly in Mediterranean regions such as Spain. Accurate predictive models require high-resolution spatio-temporal data to capture complex dynamics of environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Julen Erzibengoa , Meritxell Gómez-Omella , Izaro Goienetxea

The capabilities of super-resolution reconstruction (SRR)---techniques for enhancing image spatial resolution---have been recently improved significantly by the use of deep convolutional neural networks. Commonly, such networks are learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Michal Kawulok , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Pawel Benecki , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

Utilizing satellite imagery for wildfire detection presents substantial potential for practical applications. To advance the development of machine learning algorithms in this domain, our study introduces the \textit{Sen2Fire} dataset--a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yonghao Xu , Amanda Berg , Leif Haglund

Over the past decade, the number of wildfire has increased significantly around the world, especially in the State of California. The high-level concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emitted by wildfires aggravates global warming that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Sifat Chowdhury , Kai Zhu , Yu Zhang

High-resolution remote sensing images can provide abundant appearance information for ship detection. Although several existing methods use image super-resolution (SR) approaches to improve the detection performance, they consider image SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shitian He , Huanxin Zou , Yingqian Wang , Runlin Li , Fei Cheng

Heatwaves are intensifying worldwide and are among the deadliest weather disasters. The burden falls disproportionately on marginalized populations and the Global South, where under-resourced health systems, exposure to urban heat islands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Joud El-Shawa , Elham Bagheri , Sedef Akinli Kocak , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Thermal imaging plays a crucial role in various applications, but the inherent low resolution of commonly available infrared (IR) cameras limits its effectiveness. Conventional super-resolution (SR) methods often struggle with thermal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Cyprien Arnold , Philippe Jouvet , Lama Seoud

In this paper, we consider two challenging issues in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), (i) how to choose a proper reference image, and (ii) how to learn real-world RefSR in a self-supervised manner. Particularly, we present a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Zhilu Zhang , Ruohao Wang , Hongzhi Zhang , Yunjin Chen , Wangmeng Zuo

During a disaster event, images shared on social media helps crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. Recent advances in computer vision and deep neural networks have enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Tanvirul Alam , Umair Qazi

Climate change is intensifying wildfire risks globally, making reliable forecasting critical for adaptation strategies. While machine learning shows promise for wildfire prediction from Earth observation data, current approaches lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aditya Chakravarty