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Conservation and decision-making regarding forest resources necessitate regular forest inventory. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) in laser scanning systems has gained significant attention over the past two decades as a remote and…

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Site-specific weather forecasts are essential to accurate prediction of power demand and are consequently of great interest to energy operators. However, weather forecasts from current numerical weather prediction (NWP) models lack the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 MengMeng Han , Tennessee Leeuwenburg , Brad Murphy

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…

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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

Mobile ground robots require perceiving and understanding their surrounding support surface to move around autonomously and safely. The support surface is commonly estimated based on exteroceptive depth measurements, e.g., from LiDARs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Anqiao Li , Chenyu Yang , Jonas Frey , Joonho Lee , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

During a geosteering operation the well path is intentionally adjusted in response to the new data acquired while drilling. To achieve consistent high-quality decisions, especially when drilling in complex environments, decision support…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Kristian Fossum , Sergey Alyaev , Jan Tveranger , Ahmed Elsheikh

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

This paper introduces a novel framework, Tree-GPT, which incorporates Large Language Models (LLMs) into the forestry remote sensing data workflow, thereby enhancing the efficiency of data analysis. Currently, LLMs are unable to extract or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siqi Du , Shengjun Tang , Weixi Wang , Xiaoming Li , Renzhong Guo

Place recognition is essential to maintain global consistency in large-scale localization systems. While research in urban environments has progressed significantly using LiDARs or cameras, applications in natural forest-like environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yanqing Shen , Turcan Tuna , Marco Hutter , Cesar Cadena , Nanning Zheng

Accurate forest biomass quantification is vital for carbon cycle monitoring. While airborne LiDAR excels at capturing 3D forest structure, directly estimating woody volume and Aboveground Biomass (AGB) from point clouds is challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jinxiang Tu , Dayong Ren , Fei Shi , Zhenhong Jia , Yahong Ren , Jiwei Qin , Fang He

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

Accurate tree segmentation is a key step in extracting individual tree metrics from forest laser scans, and is essential to understanding ecosystem functions in carbon cycling and beyond. Over the past decade, tree segmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yihang She , Andrew Blake , David Coomes , Srinivasan Keshav

Climate models lack the necessary resolution for urban climate studies, requiring computationally intensive processes to estimate high resolution air temperatures. In contrast, Data-driven approaches offer faster and more accurate air…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Fatemeh Chajaei , Hossein Bagheri

An increasing amount of companies and cities plan to become CO2-neutral, which requires them to invest in renewable energies and carbon emission offsetting solutions. One of the cheapest carbon offsetting solutions is preventing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Björn Lütjens , Lucas Liebenwein , Katharina Kramer

Accurate, cost-effective monitoring of plantation aboveground biomass (AGB) is crucial for supporting local livelihoods and carbon sequestration initiatives like the China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) program. High-resolution canopy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shen Tan , Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Huaguo Huang , Han Wang

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

Global climate change has had a drastic impact on our environment. Previous study showed that pest disaster occured from global climate change may cause a tremendous number of trees died and they inevitably became a factor of forest fire.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Chia-Yen Chiang , Chloe Barnes , Plamen Angelov , Richard Jiang

Deep learning models have shown encouraging capabilities for mapping accurately forests at medium resolution with TanDEM-X interferometric SAR data. Such models, as most of current state-of-the-art deep learning techniques in remote…

High-quality digital terrain models derived from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data are essential for a wide range of geospatial analyses, and their generation typically relies on robust ground filtering (GF) to separate point clouds across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Nannan Qin , Pengjie Tao , Haiyan Guan , Zhizhong Kang , Lingfei Ma , Xiangyun Hu , Jonathan Li

Saplings are key indicators of forest regeneration and overall forest health. However, their fine-scale architectural traits are difficult to capture with existing 3D sensing methods, which make quantitative evaluation difficult.…