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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, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Isabela Borlido , Eduardo Bouhid , Victor Sundermann , Hugo Resende , Alvaro Luiz Fazenda , Fabio Faria , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães

Accurate and timely rain prediction is crucial for decision making and is also a challenging task. This paper presents a solution which won the 2 nd prize in the Weather4cast 2022 NeurIPS competition using 3D U-Nets and EarthFormers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Li , Haiyu Dong , Zuliang Fang , Jonathan Weyn , Pete Luferenko

With the recent increase in deforestation, forest fires, and regional temperatures, the concerns around the rapid and complete collapse of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem have heightened. The thresholds of deforestation and the temperature…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Adam Giammarese , Jacob Brown , Nishant Malik

Recent advances in semantic segmentation of multi-modal remote sensing images have significantly improved the accuracy of tree cover mapping, supporting applications in urban planning, forest monitoring, and ecological assessment.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yuanyuan Gui , Wei Li , Yinjian Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Mauro Marty , Christian Ginzler , Zuyuan Wang

With changing climatic conditions, we are already seeing an increase in extreme weather events and their secondary consequences, including landslides. Landslides threaten infrastructure, including roads, railways, buildings, and human life.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Alexandra Jarna Ganerød , Gabriele Franch , Erin Lindsay , Martina Calovi

In recent years, landslide disasters have reported frequently due to the extreme weather events of droughts, floods , storms, or the consequence of human activities such as deforestation, excessive exploitation of natural resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lam Pham , Cam Le , Hieu Tang , Khang Truong , Truong Nguyen , Jasmin Lampert , Alexander Schindler , Martin Boyer , Son Phan

Wildfire monitoring and prediction are essential for understanding wildfire behaviour. With extensive Earth observation data, these tasks can be integrated and enhanced through multi-task deep learning models. We present a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yu Zhao , Sebastian Gerard , Yifang Ban

Integrating machine learning (ML) with physical models (PM) has emerged as a promising way of retrieving geophysical parameters from remote sensing data. In this context, a ML model for estimating forest height from TanDEM-X interferometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Islam Mansour , Ronny Haensch , Irena Hajnsek , Konstantinos Papathanassiou

Floods cause extensive global damage annually, making effective monitoring essential. While satellite observations have proven invaluable for flood detection and tracking, comprehensive global flood datasets spanning extended time periods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Amit Misra , Kevin White , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , William Straka , Juan Lavista

Monitoring changes in tree cover for rapid assessment of deforestation is considered the critical component of any climate mitigation policy for reducing carbon. Here, we map tropical tree cover and deforestation between 2015 and 2022 using…

Multi-view learning is a learning task in which data is described by several concurrent representations. Its main challenge is most often to exploit the complementarities between these representations to help solve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hongliu Cao , Simon Bernard , Robert Sabourin , Laurent Heutte

Mapping standing dead trees is crucial for acquiring information on the effects of climate change on forests and forest biodiversity. However, leveraging high-quality aerial imagery for dead tree segmentation poses challenges due to…

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

The analysis of the multi-layer structure of wild forests is an important challenge of automated large-scale forestry. While modern aerial LiDARs offer geometric information across all vegetation layers, most datasets and methods focus only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Ekaterina Kalinicheva , Loic Landrieu , Clément Mallet , Nesrine Chehata

Understanding how vegetation loss alters rainfall remains a major challenge in climate and hydrological science, as deforestation modifies precipitation through heterogeneous, seasonal and nonlinear land-atmosphere feedbacks. Existing…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lilly Horvath-Makkos , Fayyaz Minhas

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

Characterizing the processes leading to deforestation is critical to the development and implementation of targeted forest conservation and management policies. In this work, we develop a deep learning model called ForestNet to classify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jeremy Irvin , Hao Sheng , Neel Ramachandran , Sonja Johnson-Yu , Sharon Zhou , Kyle Story , Rose Rustowicz , Cooper Elsworth , Kemen Austin , Andrew Y. Ng

Deep learning models have shown encouraging capabilities for mapping accurately forests at medium resolution with TanDEM-X interferometric SAR data. Such models, as most of current state-of-the-art deep learning techniques in remote…

The focus of this paper is using a convolutional machine learning model with a modified U-Net structure for creating land cover classification mapping based on satellite imagery. The aim of the research is to train and test convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Priit Ulmas , Innar Liiv

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

Continuous monitoring of crops and forecasting crop conditions through time series analysis is crucial for effective agricultural management. This study proposes a framework based on an attention Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Weiying Zhao , Natalia Efremova