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Monitoring and managing Earth's forests in an informed manner is an important requirement for addressing challenges like biodiversity loss and climate change. While traditional in situ or aerial campaigns for forest assessments provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Alexander Becker , Stefania Russo , Stefano Puliti , Nico Lang , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner

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

Forests are vital for the wellbeing of our planet. Large and small scale deforestation across the globe is threatening the stability of our climate, forest biodiversity, and therefore the preservation of fragile ecosystems and our natural…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Johannes N. Hansen , Edward T. A. Mitchard , Stuart King

Very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing (RS) image change detection (CD) has been a challenging task for its very rich spatial information and sample imbalance problem. In this paper, we have proposed a hierarchical change guiding map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chengxi Han , Chen Wu , Bo Du

Forest carbon offsets are increasingly popular and can play a significant role in financing climate mitigation, forest conservation, and reforestation. Measuring how much carbon is stored in forests is, however, still largely done via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Gyri Reiersen , David Dao , Björn Lütjens , Konstantin Klemmer , Xiaoxiang Zhu , Ce Zhang

The interest for change detection in the field of remote sensing has increased in the last few years. Searching for changes in satellite images has many useful applications, ranging from land cover and land use analysis to anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Antonio Di Pilato , Nicolò Taggio , Alexis Pompili , Michele Iacobellis , Adriano Di Florio , Davide Passarelli , Sergio Samarelli

Detecting changes on the ground in multitemporal Earth observation data is one of the key problems in remote sensing. In this paper, we introduce Sibling Regression for Optical Change detection (SiROC), an unsupervised method for change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Lukas Kondmann , Aysim Toker , Sudipan Saha , Bernhard Schölkopf , Laura Leal-Taixé , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Change detection in heterogeneous remote sensing images is crucial for disaster damage assessment. Recent methods use homogenous transformation, which transforms the heterogeneous optical and SAR remote sensing images into the same feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xiao Jiang , Gang Li , Yu Liu , Xiao-Ping Zhang , You He

Tree species classification plays an important role in nature conservation, forest inventories, forest management, and the protection of endangered species. Over the past four decades, remote sensing technologies have been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Colverd Grace , Schade Laura , Takami Jumpei , Bot Karol , Gallego Joseph

Mapping standing dead trees is critical for assessing forest health, monitoring biodiversity, and mitigating wildfire risks, for which aerial imagery has proven useful. However, dense canopy structures, spectral overlaps between living and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Anis Ur Rahman , Einari Heinaro , Mete Ahishali , Samuli Junttila

Change detection (CD) in remote sensing is vital for applications such as urban monitoring and disaster assessment, yet traditional methods struggle with generalization across diverse scenarios. We present OmniCD, a foundational framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Chenhao Sun

Vegetation is the natural linkage connecting soil, atmosphere and water. It can represent the change of land cover to a certain extent and serve as an indicator for global change research. Methods for measuring coverage can be divided into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Chunxue Wu , Bobo Ju , Naixue Xiong , Guisong Yang , Yan Wu , Hongming Yang , Jiaying Huang , Zhiyong Xu

Earth observation technologies, such as optical imaging and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), provide excellent means to monitor ever-growing urban environments continuously. Notably, in the case of large-scale disasters (e.g., tsunamis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Bruno Adriano , Naoto Yokoya , Junshi Xia , Hiroyuki Miura , Wen Liu , Masashi Matsuoka , Shunichi Koshimura

Remote sensing change detection aims to localize and characterize scene changes between two time points and is central to applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. Meanwhile, visual autoregressive models (VARs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel

Tree height estimation serves as an important proxy for biomass estimation in ecological and forestry applications. While traditional methods such as photogrammetry and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) offer accurate height measurements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Grace Colverd , Jumpei Takami , Laura Schade , Karol Bot , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia

Delineating wildfire affected areas using satellite imagery remains challenging due to irregular and spatially heterogeneous spectral changes across the electromagnetic spectrum. While recent deep learning approaches achieve high accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Maria Sdraka , Dimitrios Michail , Ioannis Papoutsis

Detecting object-level changes between two images across possibly different views is a core task in many applications that involve visual inspection or camera surveillance. Existing change-detection approaches suffer from three major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Hung Huy Nguyen , Pooyan Rahmanzadehgervi , Long Mai , Anh Totti Nguyen

Accurate mapping of forests is critical for forest management and carbon stocks monitoring. Deep learning is becoming more popular in Earth Observation (EO), however, the availability of reference data limits its potential in wide-area…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Shaojia Ge , Hong Gu , Weimin Su , Anne Lönnqvist , Oleg Antropov

Change detection (CD) from remote sensing (RS) images using deep learning has been widely investigated in the literature. It is typically regarded as a pixel-wise labeling task that aims to classify each pixel as changed or unchanged.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weikang Yu , Xiaokang Zhang , Samiran Das , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Pedram Ghamisi

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is essential for applications such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. Traditional change detection methods typically identify all changes between two temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Jay N. Paranjape , Celso M. de Melo , Vishal M. Patel