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Fusing satellite imagery acquired with different sensors has been a long-standing challenge of Earth observation, particularly across different modalities such as optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Here, we explore the joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Manu Tom , Yuchang Jiang , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

As we deal with the effects of climate change and the increase of global atmospheric temperatures, the accurate tracking and prediction of ice layers within polar ice sheets grows in importance. Studying these ice layers reveals climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Benjamin Zalatan , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Semantic segmentation is a critical tool in computer vision, applied in various domains like autonomous driving and medical imaging. This study focuses on aircraft contrail detection in global satellite images to improve contrail models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhenkuan Wang

We introduce a transformer-based neural network to generate high-resolution (3km) synthetic radar reflectivity fields at scale from geostationary satellite imagery. This work aims to enhance short-term convective-scale forecasts of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Jason Stock , Kyle Hilburn , Imme Ebert-Uphoff , Charles Anderson

Remote sensing scene classification plays a key role in Earth observation by enabling the automatic identification of land use and land cover (LULC) patterns from aerial and satellite imagery. Despite recent progress with convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy

Sea-Ice drift affects various global processes including the air-sea-ice energy system, numerical ocean modelling, and maritime activity in the polar regions. Drift has been investigated via various technologies ranging from satellite based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 James H. Hepworth , Amit Kumar Mishra

In this article, we considered the problem of sea ice cover is melting. Considering the `satellite passive microwave remote sensing data' as functional data, we studied daily observation of sea ice cover of each year as a smooth continuous…

Applications · Statistics 2016-10-25 Purba Das , Ananya Lahiri , Sourish Das

Ground-penetrating radar on planes and satellites now makes it practical to collect 3D observations of the subsurface structure of the polar ice sheets, providing crucial data for understanding and tracking global climate change. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Mingze Xu , David J Crandall , Geoffrey C Fox , John D Paden

For autonomous driving, radar sensors provide superior reliability regardless of weather conditions as well as a significantly high detection range. State-of-the-art algorithms for environment perception based on radar scans build up on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Marco Braun , Alessandro Cennamo , Markus Schoeler , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

The calving fronts of marine-terminating glaciers undergo constant changes. These changes significantly affect the glacier's mass and dynamics, demanding continuous monitoring. To address this need, deep learning models were developed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Marcel Dreier , Nora Gourmelon , Dakota Pyles , Fei Wu , Matthias Braun , Thorsten Seehaus , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

Air-sea interface fluxes significantly impact the reliability and efficiency of maritime communication. Compared to sparse in-situ ocean observations, satellite remote sensing data offers broader coverage and extended temporal span. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Hanyue Ni , Jingsong Yang , Lin Ren , Xiaohui Li , Changming Dong , Wen Chen

We showcase a hybrid modeling framework which embeds machine learning (ML) inference into the GFDL SPEAR climate model, for online sea ice bias correction during a set of global fully-coupled 1-year retrospective forecasts. We compare two…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 William Gregory , Mitchell Bushuk , Yong-Fei Zhang , Alistair Adcroft , Laure Zanna , Colleen McHugh , Liwei Jia

Observations indicate that the Arctic sea ice cover is rapidly retreating while the Antarctic sea ice cover is steadily expanding. State-of-the-art climate models, by contrast, typically simulate a moderate decrease in both the Arctic and…

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Global warming made the Arctic available for marine operations and created demand for reliable operational sea ice forecasts to make them safe. While ocean-ice numerical models are highly computationally intensive, relatively lightweight…

Snow avalanches present significant risks to human life and infrastructure, particularly in mountainous regions, making effective monitoring crucial. Traditional monitoring methods, such as field observations, are limited by accessibility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Jakob Grahn

The weather phenomenon of frost poses great threats to agriculture. As recent frost prediction methods are based on on-site historical data and sensors, extra development and deployment time are required for data collection in any new site.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ian Zhou , Justin Lipman , Mehran Abolhasan , Negin Shariati

``Online" data assimilation (DA) is used to generate a new seasonal-resolution reanalysis dataset over the last millennium by combining forecasts from an ocean--atmosphere--sea-ice coupled linear inverse model with climate proxy records.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Zilu Meng , Gregory J. Hakim , Eric J. Steig

In recent years, the wide availability of high-resolution radar satellite images has enabled the remote monitoring of wetland surface areas. Machine learning models have achieved state-of-the-art results in segmenting wetlands from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ioannis Iakovidis , Zahra Kalantari , Amir Hossein Payberah , Fernando Jaramillo , Francisco Pena Escobar

Shape deformation of targets in SAR image due to random orientation and partial information loss caused by occlusion of the radar signal, is an essential challenge in SAR ship detection. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Taeyong Song , Sunok Kim , SungTai Kim , Jaeseok Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn