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Cloud and cloud shadow masking is a crucial preprocessing step in hyperspectral satellite imaging, enabling the extraction of high-quality, analysis-ready data. This study evaluates various machine learning approaches, including gradient…

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Effective shadow removal is pivotal in enhancing the visual quality of images in various applications, ranging from computer vision to digital photography. During the last decades physics and machine learning -based methodologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitrios E. Diamantis , Dimitra-Christina C. Koutsiou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Cloud segmentation from intensity images is a pivotal task in atmospheric science and computer vision, aiding weather forecasting and climate analysis. Ground-based sky/cloud segmentation extracts clouds from images for further feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Jinjiang You , Jinfeng Xu , Puzhen Wu , Yunzhong Xiao , Soumyabrata Dev

Semantic segmentation by convolutional neural networks (CNN) has advanced the state of the art in pixel-level classification of remote sensing images. However, processing large images typically requires analyzing the image in small patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Markku Luotamo , Sari Metsämäki , Arto Klami

Cloud segmentation amounts to separating cloud pixels from non-cloud pixels in an image. Current deep learning methods for cloud segmentation suffer from three issues. (a) Constrain on their receptive field due to the fixed size of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Jinfeng Xu , Puzhen Wu , Yunzhong Xiao , Shaofan Wang , Soumyabrata Dev

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and a major driver of climate change, making its timely detection critical for effective mitigation. Machine learning (ML) deployed onboard satellites can enable rapid detection while reducing downlink…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Maggie Chen , Hala Lamdouar , Luca Marini , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Chris Bridges , Giacomo Acciarini

In the pursuit of environmental sustainability, the aviation industry faces the challenge of minimizing its ecological footprint. Among the key solutions is contrail avoidance, targeting the linear ice-crystal clouds produced by aircraft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Qunwei Lin , Qian Leng , Zhicheng Ding , Chao Yan , Xiaonan Xu

Clouds significantly affect the quality of optical satellite images, which seriously limits their precise application. Recently, deep learning has been widely applied to cloud detection and has achieved satisfactory results. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shaocong Zhu , Zhiwei Li , Xinghua Li , Huanfeng Shen

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

Prioritizing methane for near-term climate action is crucial due to its significant impact on global warming. Previous work used columnwise matched filter products from the airborne AVIRIS-NG imaging spectrometer to detect methane plume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Vassiliki Mancoridis , Brian Bue , Jake H. Lee , Andrew K. Thorpe , Daniel Cusworth , Alana Ayasse , Philip G. Brodrick , Riley Duren

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

High-quality images are crucial in remote sensing and UAV applications, but atmospheric haze can severely degrade image quality, making image dehazing a critical research area. Since the introduction of deep convolutional neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gao Yu Lee , Jinkuan Chen , Tanmoy Dam , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Daniel Puiu Poenar , Vu N Duong

Recent advancements in meteorology involve the use of ground-based sky cameras for cloud observation. Analyzing images from these cameras helps in calculating cloud coverage and understanding atmospheric phenomena. Traditionally, cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Shaofan Wang , Yee Hui Lee , Muhammad Salman Pathan , Soumyabrata Dev

Mitigating anthropogenic methane sources is one of the most cost-effective levers to slow down global warming. While satellite-based imaging spectrometers, such as EMIT, PRISMA, and EnMAP, can detect these point sources, current methane…

Upcoming space-based coronagraphic instruments in the next decade will perform reflected light spectroscopy and photometry of cool, directly imaged extrasolar giant planets. We are developing a new atmospheric retrieval methodology to help…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Roxana E. Lupu , Mark S. Marley , Nikole Lewis , Michael Line , Wesley A. Traub , Kevin Zahnle

The detection of clouds in satellite images is an essential preprocessing task for big data in remote sensing. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have greatly advanced the state-of-the-art in the detection of clouds in satellite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Joachim Nyborg , Ira Assent

This research addresses the growing challenge of artificial satellite trail interference in ground-based astronomical observations by developing an efficient deep learning identification method. With the proliferation of satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hua-Jian Yu , Jia-Lei Zheng , Yuan Fang

Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth's surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Nosheen Abid , Nuria Agues Paszkowsky , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Ronald Scheirer , Chiara Ceccobello , György Kovács , Anders Persson

On-board processing of hyperspectral data with machine learning models would enable unprecedented amount of autonomy for a wide range of tasks, for example methane detection or mineral identification. This can enable early warning system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vít Růžička , Andrew Markham

Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qun Liu , Saikat Basu , Sangram Ganguly , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Robert DiBiano , Manohar Karki , Ramakrishna Nemani