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Optical satellite image time series are extensively used in many Earth observation applications, including agriculture, climate monitoring, and land surface analysis. However, clouds and swath edges result in irregular sampling along the…

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Artifacts in imagery captured by remote sensing, such as clouds, snow, and shadows, present challenges for various tasks, including semantic segmentation and object detection. A primary challenge in developing algorithms for identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Scott Workman , M. Usman Rafique , Hunter Blanton , Connor Greenwell , Nathan Jacobs

This paper presents an efficient object detection method from satellite imagery. Among a number of machine learning algorithms, we proposed a combination of two convolutional neural networks (CNN) aimed at high precision and high recall,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Hiroki Miyamoto , Kazuki Uehara , Masahiro Murakawa , Hidenori Sakanashi , Hirokazu Nosato , Toru Kouyama , Ryosuke Nakamura

Horizontal atmospheric wind shear causes wind velocity fields to have different directions and speeds. In images of clouds acquired using ground-based sky imagers, clouds may be moving in different wind layers. To increase the performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Guillermo Terrén-Serrano , Manel Martínez-Ramón

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

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Computers are widely utilized in today's weather forecasting as a powerful tool to leverage an enormous amount of data. Yet, despite the availability of such data, current techniques often fall short of producing reliable detailed storm…

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Clouds and snow have similar spectral features in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR) range and are thus difficult to distinguish from each other in high resolution VNIR images. We address this issue by introducing a shortwave-infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Debvrat Varshney , Claudio Persello , Prasun Kumar Gupta , Bhaskar Ramachandra Nikam

Cloud detection is an important preprocessing step for the precise application of optical satellite imagery. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based cloud detection method named multi-scale convolutional feature fusion (MSCFF) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhiwei Li , Huanfeng Shen , Qing Cheng , Yuhao Liu , Shucheng You , Zongyi He

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

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 presents a deep-learning based framework for addressing the problem of accurate cloud detection in remote sensing images. This framework benefits from a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCN), which is capable of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Thomas A. Krammer , Parvaneh Saeedi

Object detection in video and image surveillance is a well-established yet rapidly evolving task, strongly influenced by recent deep learning advancements. This review summarises modern techniques by examining architectural innovations,…

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Clouds play a key role in Earth's radiation balance with complex effects that introduce large uncertainties into climate models. Real-time 3D cloud data is essential for improving climate predictions. This study leverages geostationary…

We develop multiple Deep Learning (DL) models that advance the state-of-the-art predictions of the global auroral particle precipitation. We use observations from low Earth orbiting spacecraft of the electron energy flux to develop a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jack Ziegler , Ryan M. Mcgranaghan

Deep learning provides a powerful new approach to many computer vision tasks. Height prediction from aerial images is one of those tasks that benefited greatly from the deployment of deep learning which replaced old multi-view geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Elhousni Mahdi , Zhang Ziming , Huang Xinming

Supervised deep learning for land cover semantic segmentation (LCS) relies on labeled satellite data. However, most existing Sentinel-2 datasets are cloud-free, which limits their usefulness in tropical regions where clouds are common. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sara Mobsite , Renaud Hostache , Laure Berti Equille , Emmanuel Roux , Joris Guerin

Effective cloud and cloud shadow detection is a critical prerequisite for accurate retrieval of concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4) or other trace gases in hyperspectral remote sensing. This challenge is especially pertinent for…

Satellite images hold great promise for continuous environmental monitoring and earth observation. Occlusions cast by clouds, however, can severely limit coverage, making ground information extraction more difficult. Existing pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Vishnu Sarukkai , Anirudh Jain , Burak Uzkent , Stefano Ermon

We consider the problem of removing and replacing clouds in satellite image sequences, which has a wide range of applications in remote sensing. Our approach first detects and removes the cloud-contaminated part of the image sequences. It…

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