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Land cover mapping is essential to monitoring the environment and understanding the effects of human activities on it. The automatic approaches to land cover mapping (i.e., image segmentation) mostly used traditional machine learning that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Sanja Šćepanović , Oleg Antropov , Pekka Laurila , Yrjö Rauste , Vladimir Ignatenko , Jaan Praks

Land Cover (LC) image classification has become increasingly significant in understanding environmental changes, urban planning, and disaster management. However, traditional LC methods are often labor-intensive and prone to human error.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Antonio Rangel , Juan Terven , Diana M. Cordova-Esparza , E. A. Chavez-Urbiola

The availability of curated large-scale training data is a crucial factor for the development of well-generalizing deep learning methods for the extraction of geoinformation from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery. While quite some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Michael Schmitt , Lloyd Haydn Hughes , Chunping Qiu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

This paper describes a methodology to produce a 7-classes land cover map of urban areas from very high resolution images and limited noisy labeled data. The objective is to make a segmentation map of a large area (a french department) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Thomas Tilak , Arnaud Braun , David Chandler , Nicolas David , Sylvain Galopin , Amélie Lombard , Michaël Michaud , Camille Parisel , Matthieu Porte , Marjorie Robert

Land cover classification is a multi-class segmentation task to classify each pixel into a certain natural or man-made category of the earth surface, such as water, soil, natural vegetation, crops, and human infrastructure. Limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhiqi Zhang , Wen Lu , Jinshan Cao , Guangqi Xie

European satellite missions Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide at highspatial resolution and high revisit time, respectively, radar and optical imagesthat support a wide range of Earth surface monitoring tasks such as LandUse/Land…

This paper presents the BigEarthNet that is a new large-scale multi-label Sentinel-2 benchmark archive. The BigEarthNet consists of 590,326 Sentinel-2 image patches, each of which is a section of i) 120x120 pixels for 10m bands; ii) 60x60…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Gencer Sumbul , Marcela Charfuelan , Begüm Demir , Volker Markl

The Sentinel-2 satellite mission delivers multi-spectral imagery with 13 spectral bands, acquired at three different spatial resolutions. The aim of this research is to super-resolve the lower-resolution (20 m and 60 m Ground Sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Charis Lanaras , José Bioucas-Dias , Silvano Galliani , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Urban vegetation monitoring plays a vital role in understanding environmental changes, yet comprehensive datasets for this purpose remain limited. To address this gap, we present the Temporal Remote-sensing Repository for Analyzing Change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Omkar Oak , Rukmini Nazre , Rujuta Budke , Suraj Sawant

In recent decades, the causes and consequences of climate change have accelerated, affecting our planet on an unprecedented scale. This change is closely tied to the ways in which humans alter their surroundings. As our actions continue to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Burak Ekim , Michael Schmitt

Earth observation offers new insight into anthropogenic changes to nature, and how these changes are effecting (and are effected by) the built environment and the real economy. With the global availability of medium-resolution (10-30m)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Lucas Kruitwagen

Spatially consistent and up-to-date maps of human settlements are crucial for addressing policies related to urbanization and sustainability, especially in the era of an increasingly urbanized world.The availability of open and free…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Christina Corbane , Vasileios Syrris , Filip Sabo , Panagiotis Politis , Michele Melchiorri , Martino Pesaresi , Pierre Soille , Thomas Kemper

Land cover mapping is essential for monitoring global environmental change and managing natural resources. Unfortunately, traditional classification models are plagued by limited training data available in existing land cover products and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Rahul Ghosh , Xiaowei Jia , Vipin Kumar

In the modern world, satellite images play a key role in forest management and degradation monitoring. For a precise quantification of forest land cover changes, the availability of spatially fine resolution data is a necessity. Since 1972,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Pritom Bose , Debolina Halder , Oliur Rahman , Turash Haque Pial

Remote sensing has emerged as a critical tool for large-scale Earth monitoring and land management. In this paper, we introduce AgriPotential, a novel benchmark dataset composed of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple months.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mohammad El Sakka , Caroline De Pourtales , Lotfi Chaari , Josiane Mothe

Scattered trees outside of dense, closed-canopy forests are very important for carbon sequestration, supporting livelihoods, maintaining ecosystem integrity, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. In contrast to trees inside of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 John Brandt , Fred Stolle

Land Cover (LC) mapping using satellite imagery is critical for environmental monitoring and management. Deep Learning (DL), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have revolutionized this field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Luigi Russo , Antonietta Sorriso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Long-range dependency modeling has been widely considered in modern deep learning based semantic segmentation methods, especially those designed for large-size remote sensing images, to compensate the intrinsic locality of standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Dawen Yu , Shunping Ji

The understanding of global climate change, agriculture resilience, and deforestation control rely on the timely observations of the Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC). Recently, some deep learning (DL) methods have been adapted to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Alexander Quevedo , Abraham Sánchez , Raul Nancláres , Diana P. Montoya , Juan Pacho , Jorge Martínez , E. Ulises Moya-Sánchez

The increasing spatial and temporal resolution of globally available satellite images, such as provided by Sentinel-2, creates new possibilities for researchers to use freely available multi-spectral optical images, with decametric spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Vittorio Mazzia , Aleem Khaliq , Marcello Chiaberge