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The Amazon rain forest is a vital ecosystem that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate and providing habitat for countless species. Deforestation in the Amazon is a major concern as it has a significant impact on global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Nathalie Neptune , Josiane Mothe

The Amazon rainforests have been suffering widespread damage, both via natural and artificial means. Every minute, it is estimated that the world loses forest cover the size of 48 football fields. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Somnath Rakshit , Soumyadeep Debnath , Dhiman Mondal

Deforestation estimation and fire detection in the Amazon forest poses a significant challenge due to the vast size of the area and the limited accessibility. However, these are crucial problems that lead to severe environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Gabor Fodor , Marcos V. Conde

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

With the recent increase in deforestation, forest fires, and regional temperatures, the concerns around the rapid and complete collapse of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem have heightened. The thresholds of deforestation and the temperature…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Adam Giammarese , Jacob Brown , Nishant Malik

It is important problem to accurately estimate deforestation of satellite imagery since this approach can analyse extensive area without direct human access. However, it is not simple problem because of difficulty in observing the clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Seunghan Park , Dongoo Lee , Yeonju Choi , SungTae Moon

Deforestation, as one of the challenging environmental problems in the world, has been recorded the most serious threat to environmental diversity and one of the main components of land-use change. In this paper, we investigate spatial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Vahid Ahmadi

The estimation of deforestation in the Amazon Forest is challenge task because of the vast size of the area and the difficulty of direct human access. However, it is a crucial problem in that deforestation results in serious environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Dongoo Lee , Yeonju Choi

Accurate forecasting is important for decision-makers. Recently, the Amazon rainforest is reaching record levels of the number of fires, a situation that concerns both climate and public health problems. Obtaining the desired forecasting…

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

We propose a method for causal inference using satellite image time series, in order to determine the treatment effects of interventions which impact climate change, such as deforestation. Simply put, the aim is to quantify the 'before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Vikas Ramachandra

Forests are vital for the wellbeing of our planet. Large and small scale deforestation across the globe is threatening the stability of our climate, forest biodiversity, and therefore the preservation of fragile ecosystems and our natural…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Johannes N. Hansen , Edward T. A. Mitchard , Stuart King

This paper undertakes an analysis of deforestation in the Amazon area using a pathways-based approach to sustainability. We ground the analysis primarily in the sustainability transitions literature but also draw a bridge with…

The conservation of tropical forests is a topic of significant social and ecological relevance due to their crucial role in the global ecosystem. Unfortunately, deforestation and degradation impact millions of hectares annually, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Isabela Borlido , Eduardo Bouhid , Victor Sundermann , Hugo Resende , Alvaro Luiz Fazenda , Fabio Faria , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães

The conservation of tropical forests is a topic of significant social and ecological relevance due to their crucial role in the global ecosystem. Unfortunately, deforestation and degradation impact millions of hectares annually,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Eduardo Neto , Fabio A. Faria , Amanda A. S. de Oliveira , Álvaro L. Fazenda

Conserving tropical forests is highly relevant socially and ecologically because of their critical role in the global ecosystem. However, the ongoing deforestation and degradation affect millions of hectares each year, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Hugo Resende , Eduardo B. Neto , Fabio A. M. Cappabianco , Alvaro L. Fazenda , Fabio A. Faria

Forest biomass is a key influence for future climate, and the world urgently needs highly scalable financing schemes, such as carbon offsetting certifications, to protect and restore forests. Current manual forest carbon stock inventory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Gyri Reiersen , David Dao , Björn Lütjens , Konstantin Klemmer , Kenza Amara , Attila Steinegger , Ce Zhang , Xiaoxiang Zhu

As both a central task in Remote Sensing and a common problem in many other situations involving time series data, change point detection boasts a thorough and well-documented history of study. However, the treatment of missing data and…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-01 Hunter Glanz , Xiaoman Huang , Minhui Zheng , Luis E. Carvalho

In this paper we develop a deforestation detection pipeline that incorporates optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. A crucial component of the pipeline is the construction of anomaly maps of the optical data, which is done using…

Rainforests play an important role in the global ecosystem. However, significant regions of them are facing deforestation and degradation due to several reasons. Diverse government and private initiatives were created to monitor and alert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Fernanda B. J. R. Dallaqua , Álvaro Luiz Fazenda , Fabio A. Faria
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