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Early detection of wildfires is essential to prevent large-scale fires resulting in extensive environmental, structural, and societal damage. Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can cover large remote areas effectively with quick deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Julius Pesonen , Teemu Hakala , Väinö Karjalainen , Niko Koivumäki , Lauri Markelin , Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola , Juha Suomalainen , Ilkka Pölönen , Eija Honkavaara

Accurate identification of deforestation from satellite images is essential in order to understand the geographical situation of an area. This paper introduces a new distributed approach to identify as well as locate deforestation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuvraj Dutta , Aaditya Sikder , Basabdatta Palit

Visual scene understanding is the core task in making any crucial decision in any computer vision system. Although popular computer vision datasets like Cityscapes, MS-COCO, PASCAL provide good benchmarks for several tasks (e.g. image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Maryam Rahnemoonfar , Tashnim Chowdhury , Argho Sarkar , Debvrat Varshney , Masoud Yari , Robin Murphy

The increasing prevalence of marine pollution during the past few decades motivated recent research to help ease the situation. Typical water quality assessment requires continuous monitoring of water and sediments at remote locations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xiaoting Xu , Tin Lai , Sayka Jahan , Farnaz Farid

Segmentation of ultrasound images is an essential task in both diagnosis and image-guided interventions given the ease-of-use and low cost of this imaging modality. As manual segmentation is tedious and time consuming, a growing body of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Bahareh Behboodi , Hassan Rivaz

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been used efficiently in several fields, including environmental challenges. In fact, CNN can help with the monitoring of marine litter, which has become a worldwide problem. UAVs have higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ousmane Youme , Jean Marie Dembélé , Eugene C. Ezin , Christophe Cambier

This work investigates the use of deep fully convolutional neural networks (DFCNN) for pixel-wise scene labeling of Earth Observation images. Especially, we train a variant of the SegNet architecture on remote sensing data over an urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Nicolas Audebert , Bertrand Le Saux , Sébastien Lefèvre

Deforestation has become a significant contributing factor to climate change and, due to this, both classifying the drivers and predicting segmentation maps of deforestation has attracted significant interest. In this work, we develop a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Joshua Mitton , Roderick Murray-Smith

Purpose of review: This paper presents a review of the current state of the art in remote sensing based monitoring of forest disturbances and forest degradation from optical Earth Observation data. Part one comprises an overview of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Manuela Hirschmugl , Heinz Gallaun , Matthias Dees , Pawan Datta , Janik Deutscher , Nikos Koutsias , Mathias Schardt

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental research in remote sensing image processing. Because of the complex maritime environment, the sea-land segmentation is a challenging task. Although the neural network has achieved excellent performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Ruirui Li , Wenjie Liu , Lei Yang , Shihao Sun , Wei Hu , Fan Zhang , Wei Li

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

Forest stands are the fundamental units in forest management inventories, silviculture, and financial analysis within operational forestry. Over the past two decades, a common method for mapping stand borders has involved delineation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Håkon Næss Sandum , Hans Ole Ørka , Oliver Tomic , Erik Næsset , Terje Gobakken

Satellite images are snapshots of the Earth surface. We propose to forecast them. We frame Earth surface forecasting as the task of predicting satellite imagery conditioned on future weather. EarthNet2021 is a large dataset suitable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Christian Requena-Mesa , Vitus Benson , Markus Reichstein , Jakob Runge , Joachim Denzler

Global climate change has had a drastic impact on our environment. Previous study showed that pest disaster occured from global climate change may cause a tremendous number of trees died and they inevitably became a factor of forest fire.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Chia-Yen Chiang , Chloe Barnes , Plamen Angelov , Richard Jiang

Each year, numerous segmentation and classification algorithms are invented or reused to solve problems where machine vision is needed. Generally, the efficiency of these algorithms is compared against the results given by one or many human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Arnaud Martin , Hicham Laanaya , Andreas Arnold-Bos

This research addresses the pressing challenge of enhancing processing times and detection capabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/drone imagery for global wildfire detection, despite limited datasets. Proposing a Segmented Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Aditya V. Jonnalagadda , Hashim A. Hashim

Forest pests threaten ecosystem stability, requiring efficient monitoring. To overcome the limitations of traditional methods in large-scale, fine-grained detection, this study focuses on accurately identifying infected trees and analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yan Zhang , Baoxin Li , Han Sun , Yuhang Gao , Mingtai Zhang , Pei Wang

The explosive growth of spatial data and extensive utilization of spatial databases emphasize the necessity for the automated discovery of spatial knowledge. In modern times, spatial data mining has emerged as an area of voluminous…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-11 K. Angayarkkani , N. Radhakrishnan

Developing accurate and reliable models for forest types mapping is critical to support efforts for halting deforestation and for biodiversity conservation (such as European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)). This work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuchang Jiang , Maxim Neumann

This paper presents a change detection method that identifies land cover changes from aerial imagery, using semantic segmentation, a machine learning approach. We present a land cover classification training pipeline with Deeplab v3+,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Renee Su , Rong Chen