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In this paper we present our work on developing an automated system for land cover classification. This system takes a multiband satellite image of an area as input and outputs the land cover map of the area at the same resolution as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Vasilis Pollatos , Loukas Kouvaras , Eleni Charou

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

The focus of this paper is using a convolutional machine learning model with a modified U-Net structure for creating land cover classification mapping based on satellite imagery. The aim of the research is to train and test convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Priit Ulmas , Innar Liiv

Semantic segmentation of land cover classes is fundamental for agricultural and economic development work, from sustainable forestry to urban planning, yet existing training datasets have significant limitations. To generate an open and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yoni Nachmany , Hamed Alemohammad

Clouds frequently cover the Earth's surface and pose an omnipresent challenge to optical Earth observation methods. The vast majority of remote sensing approaches either selectively choose single cloud-free observations or employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Marc Rußwurm , Marco Körner

Cloud removal is an essential task in remote sensing data analysis. As the image sensors are distant from the earth ground, it is likely that part of the area of interests is covered by cloud. Moreover, the atmosphere in between creates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yi Guo , Feng Li , Zhuo Wang

Efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data is still a challenge, mainly when the data is distributed, heterogeneous and of different quality depending on its corresponding local infrastructure. To reduce the overhead cost,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Monitoring land cover using remote sensing is vital for studying environmental changes and ensuring global food security through crop yield forecasting. Specifically, multitemporal remote sensing imagery provides relevant information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Amanda A. Boatswain Jacques , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo , Etienne Lord

Remote sensing understanding inherently requires multi-resolution observation, since different targets and application tasks demand different levels of spatial detail. While low-resolution (LR) imagery enables efficient global observation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhenghao Xie , Jing Xiao , Zhenqi Wang , Kexin Ma , Liang Liao , Gui-Song Xia , Mi Wang

Deep neural networks have achieved strong performance in image classification tasks due to their ability to learn complex patterns from high-dimensional data. However, their large computational and memory requirements often limit deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Shi

Regularly updated and accurate land cover maps are essential for monitoring 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Multispectral satellite imagery provide high-quality and valuable information at global scale that can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hamed Alemohammad , Kevin Booth

The number of studies for the analysis of remote sensing images has been growing exponentially in the last decades. Many studies, however, only report results---in the form of certain performance metrics---by a few selected algorithms on a…

Applications · Statistics 2020-01-07 Donghui Yan , Congcong Li , Na Cong , Le Yu , Peng Gong

Remote sensing scene classification deals with the problem of classifying land use/cover of a region from images. To predict the development and socioeconomic structures of cities, the status of land use in regions is tracked by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ozlem Sen , Hacer Yalim Keles

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

Urban land use classification and mapping are critical for urban planning, resource management, and environmental monitoring. Existing remote sensing techniques often lack precision in complex urban environments due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Lin Che , Yizi Chen , Tanhua Jin , Martin Raubal , Konrad Schindler , Peter Kiefer

Intrusion Detection is an invaluable part of computer networks defense. An important consideration is the fact that raising false alarms carries a significantly lower cost than not detecting at- tacks. For this reason, we examine how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-07-15 Aikaterini Mitrokotsa , Christos Dimitrakakis , Christos Douligeris

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

We propose a general approach for distance based clustering, using the gradient of the cost function that measures clustering quality with respect to cluster assignments and cluster center positions. The approach is an iterative two step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Aleksandar Armacki , Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar

Land-cover classification has long been a hot and difficult challenge in remote sensing community. With massive High-resolution Remote Sensing (HRS) images available, manually and automatically designed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Chenyu Zheng , Junjue Wang , Ailong Ma , Yanfei Zhong

Remote sensing offers a highly effective method for obtaining accurate information on total cropped area and crop types. The study focuses on crop cover identification for irrigated regions of Central Punjab. Data collection was executed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zeeshan Ramzan , Nisar Ahmed , Qurat-ul-Ain Akram , Shahzad Asif , Muhammad Shahbaz , Rabin Chakrabortty , Ahmed F. Elaksher