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Greenhouse segmentation has pivotal importance for climate-smart agricultural land-use planning. Deep learning-based approaches provide state-of-the-art performance in natural image segmentation. However, semantic segmentation on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Orkhan Baghirli , Imran Ibrahimli , Tarlan Mammadzada

This technical report summarizes the analysis and approach on the image-to-image translation task in the Multimodal Learning for Earth and Environment Challenge (MultiEarth 2022). In terms of strategy optimization, cloud classification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fujian Cheng , Yashu Kang , Chunlei Chen , Kezhao Jiang

Deforestation detection using satellite images can make an important contribution to forest management. Current approaches can be broadly divided into those that compare two images taken at similar periods of the year and those that monitor…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-05 Emiliano Diaz

Deep learning (DL) models are gaining popularity in forest variable prediction using Earth Observation images. However, in practical forest inventories, reference datasets are often represented by plot- or stand-level measurements, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Shaojia Ge , Oleg Antropov , Tuomas Häme , Ronald E. McRoberts , Jukka Miettinen

Soil moisture (SM) estimation from active microwave data remains challenging due to the complex interactions between radar backscatter and surface characteristics. While the water cloud model (WCM) provides a semi-physical approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yi Yu , Patrick Filippi , Thomas F. A. Bishop

The preservation of the Amazon Rainforest is one of the global priorities in combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, and safeguarding indigenous cultures. The Satellite-based Monitoring Project of Deforestation in the Brazilian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Christian Massao Konishi , Helio Pedrini

We present a new 10-meter map of dominant tree species in Swedish forests accompanied by pixel-level uncertainty estimates. The tree species classification is based on spatiotemporal metrics derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Abdulhakim M. Abdi , Fan Wang

The MultiEarth 2022 Image-to-Image Translation challenge provides a well-constrained test bed for generating the corresponding RGB Sentinel-2 imagery with the given Sentinel-1 VV & VH imagery. In this challenge, we designed various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yuchuan Gou , Bo Peng , Hongchen Liu , Hang Zhou , Jui-Hsin Lai

Time series data of urban land cover is of great utility in analyzing urban growth patterns, changes in distribution of impervious surface and vegetation and resulting impacts on urban micro climate. While Landsat data is ideal for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Krishna Kumar Perikamana , Krishnachandran Balakrishnan , Pratyush Tripathy

Tree perception is an essential building block toward autonomous forestry operations. Current developments generally consider input data from lidar sensors to solve forest navigation, tree detection and diameter estimation problems. Whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Vincent Grondin , Jean-Michel Fortin , François Pomerleau , Philippe Giguère

In the modern world, satellite images play a key role in forest management and degradation monitoring. For a precise quantification of forest land cover changes, the availability of spatially fine resolution data is a necessity. Since 1972,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Pritom Bose , Debolina Halder , Oliur Rahman , Turash Haque Pial

Foundation models pre-trained using self-supervised learning have shown powerful transfer learning capabilities on various downstream tasks, including language understanding, text generation, and image recognition. The Earth observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yi-Chia Chang , Adam J. Stewart , Favyen Bastani , Piper Wolters , Shreya Kannan , George R. Huber , Jingtong Wang , Arindam Banerjee

Forest decline driven by climate and biotic stressors threatens ecosystem functioning, making accurate monitoring of tree health essential. In this work, we address tree defoliation estimation as an ordinal classification problem using…

The availability of the sheer volume of Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery has created new opportunities for exploiting deep learning (DL) methods for land use land cover (LULC) image classification. However, an extensive set of benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Ioannis Papoutsis , Nikolaos-Ioannis Bountos , Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Christos Tryfonopoulos

Forest loss due to natural events, such as wildfires, represents an increasing global challenge that demands advanced analytical methods for effective detection and mitigation. To this end, the integration of satellite imagery with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Valeria Martin , K. Brent Venable , Derek Morgan

Vegetation is the natural linkage connecting soil, atmosphere and water. It can represent the change of land cover to a certain extent and serve as an indicator for global change research. Methods for measuring coverage can be divided into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Chunxue Wu , Bobo Ju , Naixue Xiong , Guisong Yang , Yan Wu , Hongming Yang , Jiaying Huang , Zhiyong Xu

Autonomous navigation in unstructured vegetated environments remains an open challenge. To successfully operate in these settings, ground vehicles must assess the traversability of the environment and determine which vegetation is pliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Fabio Ruetz , Nicholas Lawrance , Emili Hernández , Paulo Borges , Thierry Peynot

Accurate assessment of fuel conditions is a prerequisite for fire ignition and behavior prediction, and risk management. The method proposed herein leverages diverse data sources including Landsat-8 optical imagery, Sentinel-1 (C-band)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Riyaaz Uddien Shaik , Mohamad Alipour , Eric Rowell , Bharathan Balaji , Adam Watts , Ertugrul Taciroglu

In this paper we present our work on developing an automated system for land cover classification. This system takes a multiband satellite image of an area as input and outputs the land cover map of the area at the same resolution as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Vasilis Pollatos , Loukas Kouvaras , Eleni Charou