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We propose a novel approach for rapid segmentation of flooded buildings by fusing multiresolution, multisensor, and multitemporal satellite imagery in a convolutional neural network. Our model significantly expedites the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Tim G. J. Rudner , Marc Rußwurm , Jakub Fil , Ramona Pelich , Benjamin Bischke , Veronika Kopackova , Piotr Bilinski

Identification of regions affected by floods is a crucial piece of information required for better planning and management of post-disaster relief and rescue efforts. Traditionally, remote sensing images are analysed to identify the extent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sushant Lenka , Pratyush Kerhalkar , Pranav Shetty , Harsh Gupta , Bhavam Vidyarthi , Ujjwal Verma

The conservation of tropical forests is a topic of significant social and ecological relevance due to their crucial role in the global ecosystem. Unfortunately, deforestation and degradation impact millions of hectares annually,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Eduardo Neto , Fabio A. Faria , Amanda A. S. de Oliveira , Álvaro L. Fazenda

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

Satellite images are an extremely valuable resource in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis where they can be used for risk assessment and disaster management. In order to provide timely and actionable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Ananya Gupta , Simon Watson , Hujun Yin

This study introduces a novel dataset for segmenting flooded areas in satellite images. After reviewing 77 existing benchmarks utilizing satellite imagery, we identified a shortage of suitable datasets for this specific task. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Youngsun Jang , Dongyoun Kim , Chulwoo Pack , Kwanghee Won

The Amazon rain forest is a vital ecosystem that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate and providing habitat for countless species. Deforestation in the Amazon is a major concern as it has a significant impact on global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Nathalie Neptune , Josiane Mothe

It is important problem to accurately estimate deforestation of satellite imagery since this approach can analyse extensive area without direct human access. However, it is not simple problem because of difficulty in observing the clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Seunghan Park , Dongoo Lee , Yeonju Choi , SungTae Moon

In this work, we present the application of convolutional neural networks for segmenting water bodies in satellite images. We first use a variant of the U-Net model to segment rivers and lakes from very high-resolution images from Peru. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Jessenia Gonzalez , Debjani Bhowmick , Cesar Beltran , Kris Sankaran , Yoshua Bengio

Earth observation is fundamental for a range of human activities including flood response as it offers vital information to decision makers. Semantic segmentation plays a key role in mapping the raw hyper-spectral data coming from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ziyang Zhang , Plamen Angelov , Eduardo Soares , Nicolas Longepe , Pierre Philippe Mathieu

This study demonstrates a novel use of the U-Net architecture in the field of semantic segmentation to detect landforms using preprocessed satellite imagery. The study applies the U-Net model for effective feature extraction by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mitul Goswami , Sainath Dey , Aniruddha Mukherjee , Suneeta Mohanty , Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

Image analysis technology is used to solve the inadvertences of artificial traditional methods in disease, wastewater treatment, environmental change monitoring analysis and convolutional neural networks (CNN) play an important role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Jian Wu , Wanli Liu , Chen Li , Tao Jiang , Islam Mohammad Shariful , Hongzan Sun , Xiaoqi Li , Xintong Li , Xinyu Huang , Marcin Grzegorzek

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

Inland water body segmentation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is an important task needed for several applications, such as flood mapping. While SAR sensors capture data in all-weather conditions as high-resolution images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Siddharth Kothari , Srinivasan Murali , Sankalp Kothari , Ujjwal Verma , Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair

Aerial image segmentation is the basis for applications such as automatically creating maps or tracking deforestation. In true orthophotos, which are often used in these applications, many objects and regions can be approximated well by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Daniel Gritzner , Jörn Ostermann

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

In city, information about urban objects such as water supply, railway lines, power lines, buildings, roads, etc., is necessary for city planning. In particular, information about the spread of these objects, locations and capacity is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sahil Gangurde

As a consequence of global warming and climate change, the risk and extent of wildfires have been increasing in many areas worldwide. Warmer temperatures and drier conditions can cause quickly spreading fires and make them harder to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ozer Can Devecioglu , Mete Ahishali , Fahad Sohrab , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

Buildings' segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of earth observation and aerial imagery analysis. Most existing deep learning-based methods in the literature can be applied to a fixed or narrow-range spatial resolution imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hasan Nasrallah , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

In this paper, we present a deforestation estimation method based on attention guided UNet architecture using Electro-Optical (EO) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery. For optical images, Landsat-8 and for SAR imagery,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Sunita Arya , S Manthira Moorthi , Debajyoti Dhar