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Monitoring and managing Earth's forests in an informed manner is an important requirement for addressing challenges like biodiversity loss and climate change. While traditional in situ or aerial campaigns for forest assessments provide…

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Tropical forests are a key component of the global carbon cycle. With plans for upcoming space-borne missions like BIOMASS to monitor forestry, several airborne missions, including TropiSAR and AfriSAR campaigns, have been successfully…

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This study investigates whether the geospatial and multimodal features encoded in \textit{Earth Embeddings} can effectively guide deep learning (DL) regression models for regional surface height mapping. In particular, we focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alireza Hamoudzadeh , Valeria Belloni , Roberta Ravanelli

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

High resolution crop type maps are an important tool for improving food security, and remote sensing is increasingly used to create such maps in regions that possess ground truth labels for model training. However, these labels are absent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Stefania Di Tommaso , Sherrie Wang , David B. Lobell

3D terrain reconstruction with remote sensing imagery achieves cost-effective and large-scale earth observation and is crucial for safeguarding natural disasters, monitoring ecological changes, and preserving the environment.Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Song Zhang , Zhiwei Wei , Wenjia Xu , Lili Zhang , Yang Wang , Jinming Zhang , Junyi Liu

Crop type maps are critical for tracking agricultural land use and estimating crop production. Remote sensing has proven an efficient and reliable tool for creating these maps in regions with abundant ground labels for model training, yet…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-20 Stefania Di Tommaso , Sherrie Wang , Vivek Vajipey , Noel Gorelick , Rob Strey , David B. Lobell

Forest monitoring and education are key to forest protection, education and management, which is an effective way to measure the progress of a country's forest and climate commitments. Due to the lack of a large-scale wild forest monitoring…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yawen Lu , Yunhan Huang , Su Sun , Tansi Zhang , Xuewen Zhang , Songlin Fei , Yingjie Chen

Deep learning provides a powerful new approach to many computer vision tasks. Height prediction from aerial images is one of those tasks that benefited greatly from the deployment of deep learning which replaced old multi-view geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Elhousni Mahdi , Zhang Ziming , Huang Xinming

Mapping water extent during a flood event is essential for effective disaster management throughout all phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. In particular, during the response stage, when timely and accurate information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Hyunho Lee , Wenwen Li

The Sentinel-2 satellite mission delivers multi-spectral imagery with 13 spectral bands, acquired at three different spatial resolutions. The aim of this research is to super-resolve the lower-resolution (20 m and 60 m Ground Sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Charis Lanaras , José Bioucas-Dias , Silvano Galliani , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Despite the rapid evolution of semantic segmentation for land cover classification in high-resolution remote sensing imagery, integrating multiple data modalities such as Digital Surface Model (DSM), RGB, and Near-infrared (NIR) remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tong Wang , Guanzhou Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Chenxi Liu , Xiaoliang Tan , Jiaqi Wang , Chanjuan He , Wenlin Zhou

The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a spaceborne lidar instrument that collects near-global measurements of forest structure. While expansive in scope, GEDI samples are spatially sparse and cover a small fraction of the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-04 Paul B. May , Andrew O. Finley , Ralph O. Dubayah

Forest pests threaten ecosystem stability, requiring efficient monitoring. To overcome the limitations of traditional methods in large-scale, fine-grained detection, this study focuses on accurately identifying infected trees and analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yan Zhang , Baoxin Li , Han Sun , Yuhang Gao , Mingtai Zhang , Pei Wang

Knowledge about historic landslide event occurrence is important for supporting disaster risk reduction strategies. Building upon findings from 2022 Landslide4Sense Competition, we propose a deep neural network based system for landslide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Cam Le , Lam Pham , Jasmin Lampert , Matthias Schlögl , Alexander Schindler

Fall recovery for legged robots remains challenging, particularly on complex terrains where traditional controllers fail due to incomplete terrain perception and uncertain interactions. We present \textbf{FR-Net}, a learning-based framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yidan Lu , Yinzhao Dong , Jiahui Zhang , Ji Ma , Peng Lu

In recent years, monocular depth estimation is applied to understand the surrounding 3D environment and has made great progress. However, there is an ill-posed problem on how to gain depth information directly from a single image. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Meiqi Pei

Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Francesca Razzano , Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Gilda Schirinzi

Background: Deep learning models have shown promise in diagnosing neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) like ASD and ADHD. However, many models either use graph neural networks (GNN) to construct single-level brain functional networks (BFNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yueyang Li , Weiming Zeng , Wenhao Dong , Luhui Cai , Lei Wang , Hongyu Chen , Hongjie Yan , Lingbin Bian , Nizhuan Wang

Accurate monsoon rainfall prediction is vital for India's agriculture, water management, and climate risk planning, yet remains challenging due to sparse ground observations and complex regional variability. We present a multimodal deep…

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