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Sustainability of the global environment is dependent on the accurate land cover information over large areas. Even with the increased number of satellite systems and sensors acquiring data with improved spectral, spatial, radiometric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Atharva Sharma , Xiuwen Liu , Xiaojun Yang

Land use and land cover mapping are essential to various fields of study, including forestry, agriculture, and urban management. Using earth observation satellites both facilitate and accelerate the task. Lately, deep learning methods have…

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Since the launch of the Sentinel-2 (S2) satellites, many ML models have used the data for diverse applications. The scene classification layer (SCL) inside the S2 product provides rich information for training, such as filtering images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Cristhian Sanchez , Francisco Mena , Marcela Charfuelan , Marlon Nuske , Andreas Dengel

Monitoring of land cover and land use is crucial in natural resources management. Automatic visual mapping can carry enormous economic value for agriculture, forestry, or public administration. Satellite or aerial images combined with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Adrian Boguszewski , Dominik Batorski , Natalia Ziemba-Jankowska , Tomasz Dziedzic , Anna Zambrzycka

Land use classification of low resolution spatial imagery is one of the most extensively researched fields in remote sensing. Despite significant advancements in satellite technology, high resolution imagery lacks global coverage and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 John Brandt

Acquiring information on large areas on the earth's surface through satellite cameras allows us to see much more than we can see while standing on the ground. This assists us in detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Aditya Kumar Singh , B. Uma Shankar

Mapping and monitoring crops is a key step towards sustainable intensification of agriculture and addressing global food security. A dataset like ImageNet that revolutionized computer vision applications can accelerate development of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Rahul Ghosh , Praveen Ravirathinam , Xiaowei Jia , Ankush Khandelwal , David Mulla , Vipin Kumar

The availability of massive earth observing satellite data provide huge opportunities for land use and land cover mapping. However, such mapping effort is challenging due to the existence of various land cover classes, noisy data, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Rahul Ghosh , Praveen Ravirathinam , Xiaowei Jia , Chenxi Lin , Zhenong Jin , Vipin Kumar

Land-cover classification using remote sensing imagery is an important Earth observation task. Recently, land cover classification has benefited from the development of fully connected neural networks for semantic segmentation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xueqing Deng , Yi Zhu , Yuxin Tian , Shawn Newsam

Accurate and timely crop yield estimation is critical for global food security, agricultural policy, and farm management. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite constellation, with high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution, has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Mohammadreza Narimani , Alireza Pourreza , Ali Moghimi , Parastoo Farajpoor

Foundation models pre-trained using self-supervised learning have shown powerful transfer learning capabilities on various downstream tasks, including language understanding, text generation, and image recognition. The Earth observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yi-Chia Chang , Adam J. Stewart , Favyen Bastani , Piper Wolters , Shreya Kannan , George R. Huber , Jingtong Wang , Arindam Banerjee

Landslides pose severe threats to infrastructure, economies, and human lives, necessitating accurate detection and predictive mapping across diverse geographic regions. With advancements in deep learning and remote sensing, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Rahul A. Burange , Harsh K. Shinde , Omkar Mutyalwar

In agricultural management, precise Ground Truth (GT) data is crucial for accurate Machine Learning (ML) based crop classification. Yet, issues like crop mislabeling and incorrect land identification are common. We propose a multi-level GT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sanayya A , Amoolya Shetty , Abhijeet Sharma , Venkatesh Ravichandran , Masthan Wali Gosuvarapalli , Sarthak Jain , Priyamvada Nanjundiah , Ujjal Kr Dutta , Divya Sharma

Building-level exposure data are critical to natural hazard risk modeling, yet most global inventories describe where buildings are located rather than what they are made of. Roof material is a critical but poorly documented attribute for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Benjamin Tarver , Noelle Law , Sasha Getz , Yuki Miura

Remote sensing imagery from systems such as Sentinel provides full coverage of the Earth's surface at around 10-meter resolution. The remote sensing community has transitioned to extensive use of deep learning models due to their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mingshi Li , Dusan Grujicic , Ben Somers , Stien Heremans , Steven De Saeger , Matthew B. Blaschko

The increasing accessibility of remotely sensed data and their potential to support large-scale decision-making have driven the development of deep learning models for many Earth Observation tasks. Traditionally, such models rely on large…

In this study, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical data are both considered for Earth surface classification. Specifically, the integration of Sentinel-1 (S-1) and Sentinel-2 (S-2) data is carried out through supervised Machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Francesca Razzano , Mariapia Rita Iandolo , Chiara Zarro , G. S. Yogesh , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Precise spatial understanding in Earth Observation is essential for translating raw aerial imagery into actionable insights for critical applications like urban planning, environmental monitoring and disaster management. However, Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Roger Ferrod , Maël Lecene , Krishna Sapkota , George Leifman , Vered Silverman , Genady Beryozkin , Sylvain Lobry

In recent years, large amount of high spatial-resolution remote sensing (HRRS) images are available for land-cover mapping. However, due to the complex information brought by the increased spatial resolution and the data disturbances caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xin-Yi Tong , Gui-Song Xia , Qikai Lu , Huanfeng Shen , Shengyang Li , Shucheng You , Liangpei Zhang

Accurate, detailed, and timely crop type mapping is a very valuable information for the institutions in order to create more accurate policies according to the needs of the citizens. In the last decade, the amount of available data…

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