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Global environment monitoring is a task that requires additional attention in the contemporary rapid climate change environment. This includes monitoring the rate of deforestation and areas affected by flooding. Satellite imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Dmytro Filatov , Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar

A growing body of literature has focused on predicting wildfire occurrence using machine learning methods, capitalizing on high-resolution data and fire predictors that canonical process-based frameworks largely ignore. Standard evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Shahbaz Alvi , Italo Epicoco , Jose Maria Costa Saura

Monitoring and understanding forest dynamics is essential for environmental conservation and management. This is why the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) provides countrywide vegetation height maps at a spatial resolution of 0.5 m. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuchang Jiang , Marius Rüetschi , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Mauro Marty , Konrad Schindler , Christian Ginzler , Jan D. Wegner

The speed of response by search and rescue teams at sea is of vital importance, as survival may depend on it. Recent technological advancements have led to the development of more efficient systems for locating individuals involved in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Juan P. Martinez-Esteso , Francisco J. Castellanos , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Antonio Javier Gallego

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have been successfully applied in various aerial scenes, yet they face challenges with sparse views due to limited supervision. The acquisition of dense aerial views is often prohibitive, as unmanned aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zihan Gao , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Puhua Chen , Yuwei Guo

Wildfires are a major producer of fine particulate matter, impacting human health and the electrical grid. Accurately forecasting smoke impacts over long time scales incorporates fuel treatment strategies, natural fuel succession, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zachary Morrow , Joseph Crockett , John D. Jakeman , Dan J. Krofcheck

This work leverages neural radiance fields and remote sensing for forestry applications. Here, we show neural radiance fields offer a wide range of possibilities to improve upon existing remote sensing methods in forest monitoring. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Juan Castorena

Deforestation, as one of the challenging environmental problems in the world, has been recorded the most serious threat to environmental diversity and one of the main components of land-use change. In this paper, we investigate spatial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Vahid Ahmadi

Large wildfires pose a major environmental concern, and precise maps of fire risk can improve disaster relief planning. Fosberg Fire Weather Index (FFWI) is often used to measure wildfire risk; FFWI exhibits non-Gaussian marginal…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-17 Arnab Hazra , Brian J. Reich , Benjamin A. Shaby , Ana-Maria Staicu

Wildfires, as an integral component of the Earth system, are governed by a complex interplay of atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes spanning a vast range of spatiotemporal scales. Modeling their global activity on large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Fan Xu , Wei Gong , Hao Wu , Lilan Peng , Nan Wang , Qingsong Wen , Xian Wu , Kun Wang , Xibin Zhao

Real-time satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, etc. One important constraint of satellite imaging is the trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Haoqing Li , Bhavya Duvvuri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

The Earth observation satellites have been monitoring the earth's surface for a long time, and the images taken by the satellites contain large amounts of valuable data. However, it is extremely hard work to manually analyze such huge data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Kazuki Uehara , Hidenori Sakanashi , Hirokazu Nosato , Masahiro Murakawa , Hiroki Miyamoto , Ryosuke Nakamura

With fires becoming increasingly frequent and severe across the globe in recent years, understanding climate change's role in fire behavior is critical for quantifying current and future fire risk. However, global climate models typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Tristan Ballard , Gopal Erinjippurath

Wildfire significantly disturb ecosystems by altering forest structure, vegetation ecophysiology, and soil properties. Understanding the complex interactions between topographic and climatic conditions in post-wildfire recovery is crucial.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Faria Tuz Zahura , Gautam Bisht , Zhi Li , Sarah McKnight , Xingyuan Chen

Multiple studies have performed next-day fire prediction using satellite imagery. Two main satellites are used to detect wildfires: MODIS and VIIRS. Both satellites provide fire mask products, called MOD14 and VNP14, respectively. Studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Justus Karlsson , Yonghao Xu , Amanda Berg , Leif Haglund

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

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and its subsequent variants have led to remarkable progress in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). While most recent 3DGS-based SLAM works focus on small-scale indoor scenes, developing 3DGS-based SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past two decades, especially in the Western United States. Beyond physical infrastructure damage caused by these wildfire events, researchers have increasingly identified harmful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Jeff Wen , Marshall Burke

Current optical vegetation indices (VIs) for monitoring forest ecosystems are well established and widely used in various applications, but can be limited by atmospheric effects such as clouds. In contrast, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-27 Daniel Paluba , Bertrand Le Saux , Přemysl Stych

Hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis plays a critical role in remote sensing, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. However, traditional methods often struggle to handle the high dimensionality, spectral redundancy, and noise inherent in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xing Hu , Xiangcheng Liu , Qianqian Duan , Lian Zhang , Huiliang Shang , Linghua Jiang , Haima Yang , Dawei Zhang