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Landslides represent a major geohazard with severe impacts on human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems, underscoring the need for accurate and timely detection approaches to support disaster risk reduction. This study proposes a modular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ioannis Nasios

Rapid assessment after a natural disaster is key for prioritizing emergency resources. In the case of landslides, rapid assessment involves determining the extent of the area affected and measuring the size and location of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vanessa Böhm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollan

The lack of reliable data in developing countries is a major obstacle to sustainable development, food security, and disaster relief. Poverty data, for example, is typically scarce, sparse in coverage, and labor-intensive to obtain. Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Michael Xie , Neal Jean , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 (S-1) mission is a constellation of C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that provide unprecedented monitoring of the world's oceans. S-1's wave mode (WV) captures 20x20 km image…

The classification of large-scale high-resolution SAR land cover images acquired by satellites is a challenging task, facing several difficulties such as semantic annotation with expertise, changing data characteristics due to varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zhongling Huang , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Zongxu Pan , Bin Lei , Mihai Datcu

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Onboard machine learning on the latest satellite hardware offers the potential for significant savings in communication and operational costs. We showcase the training of a machine learning model on a satellite constellation for scene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Johan Östman , Pablo Gomez , Vinutha Magal Shreenath , Gabriele Meoni

This work provides a framework for addressing the problem of supervised domain adaptation with deep models. The main idea is to exploit adversarial learning to learn an embedded subspace that simultaneously maximizes the confusion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Saeid Motiian , Quinn Jones , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Gianfranco Doretto

Earth observation (EO) foundation models have emerged as an effective approach to derive latent representations of the Earth system from various remote sensing sensors. These models produce embeddings that can be used as analysis-ready…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Julia Peters , Karin Mora , Miguel D. Mahecha , Chaonan Ji , David Montero , Clemens Mosig , Guido Kraemer

The increasing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery has enabled the use of machine learning to support land-cover measurement and inform policy-making. However, labelling satellite images is expensive and is available for only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Miao Zhang , Harvineet Singh , Lazarus Chok , Rumi Chunara

Publicly available satellite imagery can be an ubiquitous, cheap, and powerful tool for vehicle localisation when a prior sensor map is unavailable. However, satellite images are not directly comparable to data from ground range sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Tim Y. Tang , Daniele De Martini , Shangzhe Wu , Paul Newman

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

In this work, we develop methods for few-shot image classification from a new perspective of optimal matching between image regions. We employ the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) as a metric to compute a structural distance between dense image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chi Zhang , Yujun Cai , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

In recent years, the application of Deep Learning techniques has shown remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, paving the way for their deployment in extraterrestrial exploration. Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Leonardo Olivi , Edoardo Santero Mormile , Enzo Tartaglione

Cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) aims to acquire knowledge from limited training data in the target domain by leveraging prior knowledge transferred from source domains with abundant training samples. CDFSL faces challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yixiong Zou , Yicong Liu , Yiman Hu , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

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

In recent years, with the development of aerospace technology, we use more and more images captured by satellites to obtain information. But a large number of useless raw images, limited data storage resource and poor transmission…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Junxing Hu , Ling Li , Yijun Lin , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao

In this paper, the authors aim to combine the latest state of the art models in image recognition with the best publicly available satellite images to create a system for landslide risk mitigation. We focus first on landslide detection and…

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

Satellite imagery has dramatically revolutionized the field of geography by giving academics, scientists, and policymakers unprecedented global access to spatial data. Manual methods typically require significant time and effort to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mustafa M. Abd Zaid , Ahmed Abed Mohammed , Putra Sumari