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Inland water body segmentation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is an important task needed for several applications, such as flood mapping. While SAR sensors capture data in all-weather conditions as high-resolution images,…

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We propose a deep learning framework to detect and categorize oil spills in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images at a large scale. By means of a carefully designed neural network model for image segmentation trained on an extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Martine M. Espeseth , Njål Borch

Landslides pose severe threats to infrastructure, economies, and human lives, necessitating accurate detection and predictive mapping across diverse geographic regions. With advancements in deep learning and remote sensing, automated…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has diverse applications in land and marine surveillance. Unlike electro-optical (EO) systems, these systems are not affected by weather conditions and can be used in the day and night times. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Abu Md Niamul Taufique , Navya Nagananda , Andreas Savakis

Images generated by high-resolution SAR have vast areas of application as they can work better in adverse light and weather conditions. One such area of application is in the military systems. This study is an attempt to explore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Aakash Singh , Vivek Kumar Singh

Radars are widely used to obtain echo information for effective prediction, such as precipitation nowcasting. In this paper, recent relevant scientific investigation and practical efforts using Deep Learning (DL) models for weather radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Qi Liu , Zhiyun Yang , Ru Ji , Yonghong Zhang , Muhammad Bilal , Xiaodong Liu , S Vimal , Xiaolong Xu

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advancements in image processing and deep learning techniques for pavement distress detection and classification, a critical aspect in modern pavement management systems. The conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Sizhe Guan , Haolan Liu , Hamid R. Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

While deep learning techniques have an increasing impact on many technical fields, gathering sufficient amounts of training data is a challenging problem in remote sensing. In particular, this holds for applications involving data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Michael Schmitt , Lloyd Haydn Hughes , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Tracking internal layers in radar echograms with high accuracy is essential for understanding ice sheet dynamics and quantifying the impact of accelerated ice discharge in Greenland and other polar regions due to contemporary global climate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Oluwanisola Ibikunle , Hara Talasila , Debvrat Varshney , Jilu Li , John Paden , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are affected by a spatially-correlated and signal-dependent noise called speckle, which is very severe and may hinder image exploitation. Despeckling is an important task that aims at removing such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa , Diego Valsesia , Luisa Verdoliva

Pavement condition evaluation is essential to time the preventative or rehabilitative actions and control distress propagation. Failing to conduct timely evaluations can lead to severe structural and financial loss of the infrastructure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadra Naddaf-Sh , M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh , Amir R. Kashani , Hassan Zargarzadeh

Access to high resolution satellite imagery has dramatically increased in recent years as several new constellations have entered service. High revisit frequencies as well as improved resolution has widened the use cases of satellite…

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Glaciers are losing ice mass at unprecedented rates, increasing the need for accurate, year-round monitoring to understand frontal ablation, particularly the factors driving the calving process. Deep learning models can extract calving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nora Gourmelon , Marcel Dreier , Martin Mayr , Thorsten Seehaus , Dakota Pyles , Matthias Braun , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

The large volumes of Sentinel-1 data produced over Europe are being used to develop pan-national ground motion services. However, simple analysis techniques like thresholding cannot detect and classify complex deformation signals reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs , Krisztina Kelevitz , Zahra Sadeghi , Tim Wright , James Thompson , Alin Achim , David Bull

With its vast expanse, exceeding that of Western Europe by twice, the Amazon rainforest stands as the largest forest of the Earth, holding immense importance in global climate regulation. Yet, deforestation detection from remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carla Nascimento Neves , Raul Queiroz Feitosa , Mabel X. Ortega Adarme , Gilson Antonio Giraldi

Tree height estimation serves as an important proxy for biomass estimation in ecological and forestry applications. While traditional methods such as photogrammetry and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) offer accurate height measurements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Grace Colverd , Jumpei Takami , Laura Schade , Karol Bot , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia

Land Cover (LC) mapping using satellite imagery is critical for environmental monitoring and management. Deep Learning (DL), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have revolutionized this field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Luigi Russo , Antonietta Sorriso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Alexander Becker , Stefania Russo , Stefano Puliti , Nico Lang , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner

Deploying deep learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is becoming more common for mapping purposes. One such case is sea ice, which is highly dynamic and rapidly changes as a result of the combined effect of wind, temperature, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Morteza Karimzadeh , Rafael Pires de Lima

Speckle suppression in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a key processing step which continues to be a research topic. A wide variety of methods, using either spatially-based approaches or transform-based strategies, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alejandro Mestre-Quereda , Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez