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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

Integrating machine learning (ML) with physical models (PM) has emerged as a promising way of retrieving geophysical parameters from remote sensing data. In this context, a ML model for estimating forest height from TanDEM-X interferometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Islam Mansour , Ronny Haensch , Irena Hajnsek , Konstantinos Papathanassiou

Deep learning (DL) models are gaining popularity in forest variable prediction using Earth Observation images. However, in practical forest inventories, reference datasets are often represented by plot- or stand-level measurements, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Shaojia Ge , Oleg Antropov , Tuomas Häme , Ronald E. McRoberts , Jukka Miettinen

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

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

Accurate estimation of building heights using very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is crucial for various urban applications. This paper introduces a Deep Learning (DL)-based methodology for automated building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Babak Memar , Luigi Russo , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Accurately estimating forest biomass is crucial for global carbon cycle modelling and climate change mitigation. Tree height, a key factor in biomass calculations, can be measured using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Grace Colverd , Jumpei Takami , Laura Schade , Karol Bot , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia

The integration of multisource remote sensing data and deep learning models offers new possibilities for accurately mapping high spatial resolution forest height. We found that GEDI relative heights (RH) metrics exhibited strong correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Man Chen , Wenquan Dong , Hao Yu , Iain Woodhouse , Casey M. Ryan , Haoyu Liu , Selena Georgiou , Edward T. A. Mitchard

Climate models play a critical role in understanding and projecting climate change. Due to their complexity, their horizontal resolution of about 40-100 km remains too coarse to resolve processes such as clouds and convection, which need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Birgit Kühbacher , Fernando Iglesias-Suarez , Niki Kilbertus , Veronika Eyring

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Hossein Aghababaei , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio , Gilda Schirinzi

In this study, we examine the potential of high-resolution forest mapping using L-band interferometric time series datasets and deep learning modeling. Our SAR data are represented by a time series of nine ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 dual-pol SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Chiara Telli , Oleg Antropov , Anne Lönnqvist , Marco Lavalle

Accurate forest canopy height estimation is essential for evaluating aboveground biomass and carbon stock dynamics, supporting ecosystem monitoring services like timber provisioning, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jose B. Castro , Cheryl Rogers , Camile Sothe , Dominic Cyr , Alemu Gonsamo

In prediction of forest parameters with data from remote sensing (RS), regression models have traditionally been trained on a small sample of ground reference data. This paper proposes to impute this sample of true prediction targets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Sara Björk , Stian N. Anfinsen , Michael Kampffmeyer , Erik Næsset , Terje Gobakken , Lennart Noordermeer

Originally developed in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving with image-based navigation in mind, deep learning-based single-image depth estimation (SIDE) has found great interest in the wider image analysis community. Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

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

Traditional approaches based on finite element analyses have been successfully used to predict the macro-scale behavior of heterogeneous materials (composites, multicomponent alloys, and polycrystals) widely used in industrial applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Rajat Arora

Estimating the heightmaps of buildings and vegetation in single remotely sensed images is a challenging problem. Effective solutions to this problem can comprise the stepping stone for solving complex and demanding problems that require 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Savvas Karatsiolis , Andreas Kamilaris

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

Dense matching is crucial for 3D scene reconstruction since it enables the recovery of scene 3D geometry from image acquisition. Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have shown effectiveness in the special case of epipolar stereo disparity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Teng Wu , Bruno Vallet , Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny , Ewelina Rupnik

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi
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