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Mapping winter vegetation quality coverage is a challenge problem of remote sensing. This is due to the cloud coverage in winter period, leading to use radar rather than optical images. The objective of this paper is to provide a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Dinh Ho Tong Minh , Dino Ienco , Raffaele Gaetano , Nathalie Lalande , Emile Ndikumana , Faycal Osman , Pierre Maurel

Deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has gained significant attention for its effectiveness in computer vision, especially in agricultural tasks. Recent advancements in instance segmentation have improved image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Raul Steinmetz , Victor A. Kich , Henrique Krever , Joao D. Rigo Mazzarolo , Ricardo B. Grando , Vinicius Marini , Celio Trois , Ard Nieuwenhuizen

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

Regular measurement of carbon stock in the world's forests is critical for carbon accounting and reporting under national and international climate initiatives, and for scientific research, but has been largely limited in scalability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Manuel Weber , Carly Beneke , Clyde Wheeler

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

The increasing frequency and severity of climate related disasters have intensified the need for real time monitoring, early warning, and informed decision-making. Earth Observation (EO), powered by satellite data and Machine Learning (ML),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Stella Girtsou , Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Charalambos Kontoes

Autonomous UAV forestry operations require robust depth estimation with strong cross-domain generalization, yet existing evaluations focus on urban and indoor scenarios, leaving a critical gap for vegetation-dense environments. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yida Lin , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Sam Schofield , Richard Green

Satellite remote sensing presents a cost-effective solution for synoptic flood monitoring, and satellite-derived flood maps provide a computationally efficient alternative to numerical flood inundation models traditionally used. While…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Antara Dasgupta , Lasse Hybbeneth , Björn Waske

The Agriculture-Vision Challenge at CVPR 2024 aims at leveraging semantic segmentation models to produce pixel level semantic segmentation labels within regions of interest for multi-modality satellite images. It is one of the most famous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

This technical report presents the implementation details of 2nd winning for CVPR'24 UG2 WeatherProof Dataset Challenge. This challenge aims at semantic segmentation of images degraded by various degrees of weather from all around the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Guojin Cao , Jiaxu Li , Jia He , Ying Min , Yunhao Zhang

This work aims to produce landslide density estimates using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imageries to prioritise emergency resources for rapid response. We use the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landslide Inventory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Vanessa Boehm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollán

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We develop a deep learning based convolutional-regression model that estimates the volumetric soil moisture content in the top ~5 cm of soil. Input predictors include Sentinel-1 (active radar), Sentinel-2 (optical imagery), and SMAP…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Vishal Batchu , Grey Nearing , Varun Gulshan

Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) acquired tens of millions of low-resolution stellar spectra. The large amount of the spectra result in the urgency to explore automatic atmospheric parameter estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-14 Xiangru Li , Si Zeng , Zhu Wang , Bing Du , Xiao Kong , Caixiu Liao

Tropical forests play an important role in regulating the global carbon cycle and are crucial for maintaining the tropical forest biodiversity. Therefore, there is an urgent need to map the extent of tropical forest ecosystems. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Adugna Mullissa , Sassan Saatchi

Accurate quantification of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is critical for understanding carbon accounting in the context of climate change. In this study, we presented a novel attention-based deep learning approach for forest AGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenquan Dong , Edward T. A. Mitchard , Hao Yu , Steven Hancock , Casey M. Ryan

In recent years, wildfires have posed a significant challenge due to their increasing frequency and severity. For this reason, accurate delineation of burned areas is crucial for environmental monitoring and post-fire assessment. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Edoardo Arnaudo , Luca Barco , Matteo Merlo , Claudio Rossi

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…

Accurate soil moisture (SM) estimation is critical for precision agriculture, water resources management and climate monitoring. Yet, existing satellite SM products are too coarse (>1km) for farm-level applications. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ioannis Kontogiorgakis , Athanasios Askitopoulos , Iason Tsardanidis , Dimitrios Bormpoudakis , Ilias Tsoumas , Fotios Balampanis , Charalampos Kontoes

Fine-scale forest monitoring is essential for understanding canopy structure and its dynamics, which are key indicators of carbon stocks, biodiversity, and forest health. Deep learning is particularly effective for this task, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ekaterina Kalinicheva , Florian Helen , Stéphane Mermoz , Florian Mouret , Milena Planells