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Proximally-sensed laser scanning offers significant potential for automated forest data capture, but challenges remain in automatically identifying tree species without additional ground data. Deep learning (DL) shows promise for…

The potential of tree planting as a natural climate solution is often undermined by inadequate monitoring of tree planting projects. Current monitoring methods involve measuring trees by hand for each species, requiring extensive cost,…

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Forests worldwide are increasingly threatened by climate change and disturbances such as fire, pests, and pathogens, creating an urgent need for scalable monitoring of tree cover and tree mortality. Aerial imagery from drones and aircraft…

Logged forests cover four million square kilometres of the tropics and restoring these forests is essential if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, yet monitoring recovery is challenging. Tracking the abundance of visually…

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Tree perception is an essential building block toward autonomous forestry operations. Current developments generally consider input data from lidar sensors to solve forest navigation, tree detection and diameter estimation problems. Whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Vincent Grondin , Jean-Michel Fortin , François Pomerleau , Philippe Giguère

Soybean and cotton are major drivers of many countries' agricultural sectors, offering substantial economic returns but also facing persistent challenges from volunteer plants and weeds that hamper sustainable management. Effectively…

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Detailed forest inventories are critical for sustainable and flexible management of forest resources, to conserve various ecosystem services. Modern airborne laser scanners deliver high-density point clouds with great potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Binbin Xiang , Maciej Wielgosz , Theodora Kontogianni , Torben Peters , Stefano Puliti , Rasmus Astrup , Konrad Schindler

Large-scale delineation of individual trees from remote sensing imagery is crucial to the advancement of ecological research, particularly as climate change and other environmental factors rapidly transform forest landscapes across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Michelle Chen , David Russell , Amritha Pallavoor , Derek Young , Jane Wu

Monitoring tree crop expansion is vital for zero-deforestation policies like the European Union's Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR). However, these efforts are hindered by a lack of highresolution data distinguishing diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuchang Jiang , Anton Raichuk , Xiaoye Tong , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo , Dan Morris , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner , Maxim Neumann

Individual tree crown segmentation is an important task in remote sensing for forest biomass estimation and ecological monitoring. However, accurate delineation in dense, overlapping canopies remains a bottleneck. While supervised deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Pengyu Chen , Fangzheng Lyu , Sicheng Wang , Cuizhen Wang

Tropical forests represent the home of many species on the planet for flora and fauna, retaining billions of tons of carbon footprint, promoting clouds and rain formation, implying a crucial role in the global ecosystem, besides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Guilherme A. Pimenta , Fernanda B. J. R. Dallaqua , Alvaro Fazenda , Fabio A. Faria

Mapping individual tree crowns is essential for tasks such as maintaining urban tree inventories and monitoring forest health, which help us understand and care for our environment. However, automatically separating the crowns from each…

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Supervised methods for object delineation in remote sensing require labeled ground-truth data. Gathering sufficient high quality ground-truth data is difficult, especially when targets are of irregular shape or difficult to distinguish from…

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Fine-grained semantic segmentation of transmission-corridor point clouds is fundamental for intelligent power-line inspection. However, current progress is limited by realistic data scarcity and the difficulty of modeling global corridor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xu Cui , Xinyan Liu , Chen Yang , Zhaobo Qi , Beichen Zang , Weigang Zhang , Antoni B. Chan

Accurate and consistent methods for counting trees based on remote sensing data are needed to support sustainable forest management, assess climate change mitigation strategies, and build trust in tree carbon credits. Two-dimensional remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Lei Li , Tianfang Zhang , Zhongyu Jiang , Cheng-Yen Yang , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Stefan Oehmcke , Dimitri Pierre Johannes Gominski , Fabian Gieseke , Christian Igel

Scattered trees outside of dense, closed-canopy forests are very important for carbon sequestration, supporting livelihoods, maintaining ecosystem integrity, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. In contrast to trees inside of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 John Brandt , Fred Stolle

Tropical forests play an important role in regulating the global carbon cycle and are crucial for maintaining the tropical forest biodiversity. Therefore, there is an urgent need to map the extent of tropical forest ecosystems. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Adugna Mullissa , Sassan Saatchi

This paper presents a non-parametric approach for segmenting trees from airborne LiDAR data in deciduous forests. Based on the LiDAR point cloud, the approach collects crown information such as steepness and height on-the-fly to delineate…

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Recent years have seen a significant increase in demand for robotic solutions in unstructured natural environments, alongside growing interest in bridging 2D and 3D scene understanding. However, existing robotics datasets are predominantly…

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Urban vegetation monitoring plays a vital role in understanding environmental changes, yet comprehensive datasets for this purpose remain limited. To address this gap, we present the Temporal Remote-sensing Repository for Analyzing Change…

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