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Earth System Models (ESM) are our main tool for projecting the impacts of climate change. However, running these models at sufficient resolution for local-scale risk-assessments is not computationally feasible. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paula Harder , Luca Schmidt , Francis Pelletier , Nicole Ludwig , Matthew Chantry , Christian Lessig , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , David Rolnick

In this paper we present results from the NEFOCAST project, funded by the Tuscany Region, aiming at detecting and estimating rainfall fields from the opportunistic use of the rain-induced excess attenuation incurred in the downlink channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Filippo Giannetti , Marco Moretti , Ruggero Reggiannini , Attilio Vaccaro

Accurate near-real-time precipitation retrieval has been enhanced by satellite-based technologies. However, infrared-based algorithms have low accuracy due to weak relations with surface precipitation, whereas passive microwave and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zheng Wang , Kai Ying , Bin Xu , Chunjiao Wang , Cong Bai

The temporal and spatial resolution of rainfall data is crucial for environmental modeling studies in which its variability in space and time is considered as a primary factor. Rainfall products from different remote sensing instruments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Muhammed Sit , Bong-Chul Seo , Ibrahim Demir

Obtaining high-resolution maps of precipitation data can provide key insights to stakeholders to assess a sustainable access to water resources at urban scale. Mapping a nonstationary, sparse process such as precipitation at very high…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-08 Jiachen Zhang , Matthew Bonas , Diogo Bolster , Geir-Arne Fuglstad , Stefano Castruccio

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) plays a crucial role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from industrial outputs. Using seismic monitoring can aid in an accurate and robust monitoring system to ensure the effectiveness of…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Fu Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

High-precision controllable remote sensing image generation is both meaningful and challenging. Existing diffusion models often produce low-fidelity images due to their inability to adequately capture morphological details, which may affect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ziqi Ye , Shuran Ma , Jie Yang , Xiaoyi Yang , Yi Yang , Ziyang Gong , Xue Yang , Haipeng Wang

The Atacama Desert has long been established as an excellent site for submillimeter observations. Yet identifying potentially optimal locations for a new facility within this region can require long field campaigns that rely on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-08 Pablo Gómez Toribio , Tony Mroczkowski , Anna Cabré , Carlos De Breuck , Ricardo Bustos , Rodrigo Reeves

Reliable precipitation monitoring is essential for disaster risk reduction, water resources management, and agricultural decision-making. Multi-source satellite observations, particularly the combination of geostationary infrared and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yunfan Yang , Haofei Sun , Xiuyu Sun , Wei Han , Xiaoze Xu , Xingtao Song , Jun Li , Zhiqiu Gao , Wei Huang , Hao Li

This paper presents a novel approach for cross-view synthesis aimed at generating plausible ground-level images from corresponding satellite imagery or vice versa. We refer to these tasks as satellite-to-ground (Sat2Grd) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tao Jun Lin , Wenqing Wang , Yujiao Shi , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora , Hongdong Li

Climate models struggle to accurately simulate precipitation, particularly extremes and the diurnal cycle. Here, we present a hybrid model that is trained directly on satellite-based precipitation observations. Our model runs at 2.8$^\circ$…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Janni Yuval , Ian Langmore , Dmitrii Kochkov , Stephan Hoyer

Removing degradation from document images not only improves their visual quality and readability, but also enhances the performance of numerous automated document analysis and recognition tasks. However, existing regression-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zongyuan Yang , Baolin Liu , Yongping Xiong , Lan Yi , Guibin Wu , Xiaojun Tang , Ziqi Liu , Junjie Zhou , Xing Zhang

As neuromorphic sensors, event cameras asynchronously record changes in brightness as streams of sparse events with the advantages of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Reconstructing intensity images from events is a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weilun Li , Lei Sun , Ruixi Gao , Qi Jiang , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

The utility of aerial imagery (Satellite, Drones) has become an invaluable information source for cross-disciplinary applications, especially for crisis management. Most of the mapping and tracking efforts are manual which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ruchit Rawal , Prabhu Pradhan

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

Deep learning has been successfully applied to precipitation nowcasting. In this work, we propose a pre-training scheme and a new loss function for improving deep-learning-based nowcasting. First, we adapt U-Net, a widely-used deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jihoon Ko , Kyuhan Lee , Hyunjin Hwang , Seok-Geun Oh , Seok-Woo Son , Kijung Shin

Recently, many deep-learning techniques have been applied to various weather-related prediction tasks, including precipitation nowcasting (i.e., predicting precipitation levels and locations in the near future). Most existing…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jihoon Ko , Kyuhan Lee , Hyunjin Hwang , Kijung Shin

Radiative transfer coupled with highly realistic simulations of the solar atmosphere is routinely used to infer the physical properties underlying solar observations. Due to its computational efficiency, the method of short-characteristics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 Courtney L. Peck , Serena Criscuoli , Mark P. Rast

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem with a large set of feasible solutions that are consistent with a given low-resolution image. Various deterministic algorithms aim to find a single solution that balances fidelity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Cansu Korkmaz , Ege Cirakman , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan