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Human settlement extent (HSE) information is a valuable indicator of world-wide urbanization as well as the resulting human pressure on the natural environment. Therefore, mapping HSE is critical for various environmental issues at local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 C. Qiu , M. Schmitt , C. Geiss , T. K. Chen , X. X. Zhu

Satellite remote sensing presents a cost-effective solution for synoptic flood monitoring, and satellite-derived flood maps provide a computationally efficient alternative to numerical flood inundation models traditionally used. While…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Antara Dasgupta , Lasse Hybbeneth , Björn Waske

Large-scale, high-resolution forest canopy height mapping plays a crucial role in understanding regional and global carbon and water cycles. Spaceborne LiDAR missions, including the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yongkang Lai , Xihan Mu , Dasheng Fan , Donghui Xie , Shanxin Guo , Wenli Huang , Tianjie Zhao , Guangjian Yan

This paper proposes a multi-spectral random forest classifier with suitable feature selection and masking for tree cover estimation in urban areas. The key feature of the proposed classifier is filtering out the built-up region using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Usman Nazir , Momin Uppal , Muhammad Tahir , Zubair Khalid

Estimating forest height from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images often relies on traditional physical models, which, while interpretable and data-efficient, can struggle with generalization. In contrast, Deep Learning (DL) approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ronny Hänsch

High-resolution cameras have become very helpful for plant phenotyping by providing a mechanism for tasks such as target versus background discrimination, and the measurement and analysis of fine-above-ground plant attributes. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Jose F. Ruiz-Munoz , Jyothier K. Nimmagadda , Tyler G. Dowd , James E. Baciak , Alina Zare

High resolution remote sensing imagery is used in broad range of tasks, including detection and classification of objects. High-resolution imagery is however expensive, while lower resolution imagery is often freely available and can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 Muhammed Razzak , Gonzalo Mateo-Garcia , Luis Gómez-Chova , Yarin Gal , Freddie Kalaitzis

Accurate change detection from satellite imagery is essential for monitoring rapid mass-movement hazards such as snow avalanches, which increasingly threaten human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems due to their rising frequency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mattia Gatti , Alberto Mariani , Ignazio Gallo , Fabiano Monti

Recognition of features in satellite imagery (forests, swimming pools, etc.) depends strongly on the spatial scale of the concept and therefore the resolution of the images. This poses two challenges: Which resolution is best suited for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shreelekha Revankar , Cheng Perng Phoo , Utkarsh Mall , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

Earth observation (EO) foundation models have emerged as an effective approach to derive latent representations of the Earth system from various remote sensing sensors. These models produce embeddings that can be used as analysis-ready…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Julia Peters , Karin Mora , Miguel D. Mahecha , Chaonan Ji , David Montero , Clemens Mosig , Guido Kraemer

This paper investigates the enhancement of spatial resolution in Sentinel-2 bands that contain spectral information using advanced super-resolution techniques by a factor of 2. State-of-the-art CNN models are compared with enhanced GAN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Patrick Kramer , Alexander Steinhardt , Barbara Pedretscher

Super-resolution aims to increase the resolution of satellite images by reconstructing high-frequency details, which go beyond na\"ive upsampling. This has particular relevance for Earth observation missions like Sentinel-2, which offer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Aditya Retnanto , Son Le , Sebastian Mueller , Armin Leitner , Michael Riffler , Konrad Schindler , Yohan Iddawela

Recent Reference-Based image super-resolution (RefSR) has improved SOTA deep methods introducing attention mechanisms to enhance low-resolution images by transferring high-resolution textures from a reference high-resolution image. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Esteban Reyes-Saldana , Mariano Rivera

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

This paper investigates the joint optimization of trajectory planning and resource allocation for a high-altitude platform stations synthetic aperture radar (HAPs-SAR) system. To support real-time sensing and conserve the limited energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Bang Huang , Kihong Park , Xiaowei Pang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We have developed the world's first canopy height map of the distribution area of world-level giant trees. This mapping is crucial for discovering more individual and community world-level giant trees, and for analyzing and quantifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Guangpeng Fan , Fei Yan , Xiangquan Zeng , Qingtao Xu , Ruoyoulan Wang , Binghong Zhang , Jialing Zhou , Liangliang Nan , Jinhu Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Jia Wang

Deep learning-based hyperspectral image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved great success recently. However, most existing models can not effectively explore spatial information and spectral information between bands simultaneously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Qi Wang , Qiang Li , Xuelong Li

Semantic segmentation of land cover classes is fundamental for agricultural and economic development work, from sustainable forestry to urban planning, yet existing training datasets have significant limitations. To generate an open and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yoni Nachmany , Hamed Alemohammad

Multi-Image Super-Resolution (MISR) is a crucial yet challenging research task in the remote sensing community. In this paper, we address the challenging task of Multi-Image Super-Resolution in Remote Sensing (MISR-RS), aiming to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Zhihui Zhang , Jinhui Pang , Jianan Li , Xiaoshuai Hao

Super resolution offers a way to harness medium even lowresolution but historically valuable remote sensing image archives. Generative models, especially diffusion models, have recently been applied to remote sensing super resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Songxi Yang , Tang Sui , Qunying Huang