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Forest monitoring is critical for climate change mitigation. However, existing global tree height maps provide only static snapshots and do not capture temporal forest dynamics, which are essential for accurate carbon accounting. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jan Pauls , Karsten Schrödter , Sven Ligensa , Martin Schwartz , Berkant Turan , Max Zimmer , Sassan Saatchi , Sebastian Pokutta , Philippe Ciais , Fabian Gieseke

Forest mapping provides critical observational data needed to understand the dynamics of forest environments. Notably, tree diameter at breast height (DBH) is a metric used to estimate forest biomass and carbon dioxide sequestration. Manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Adam Korycki , Cory Yeaton , Gregory S. Gilbert , Colleen Josephson , Steve McGuire

Access to below-canopy volumetric vegetation data is crucial for understanding ecosystem dynamics. We address the long-standing limitation of remote sensing to penetrate deep into dense canopy layers. LiDAR and radar are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mohamed Youssef , Jian Peng , Oliver Bimber

Accurate soil moisture (SM) estimation is critical for precision agriculture, water resources management and climate monitoring. Yet, existing satellite SM products are too coarse (>1km) for farm-level applications. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ioannis Kontogiorgakis , Athanasios Askitopoulos , Iason Tsardanidis , Dimitrios Bormpoudakis , Ilias Tsoumas , Fotios Balampanis , Charalampos Kontoes

The availability of curated large-scale training data is a crucial factor for the development of well-generalizing deep learning methods for the extraction of geoinformation from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery. While quite some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Michael Schmitt , Lloyd Haydn Hughes , Chunping Qiu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Sentinel-1 is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platform with an operational mode called extra wide (EW) that offers large regions of ocean areas to be observed. A major issue with EW images is that the cross-polarized HV and VH channels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Peter Q. Lee , Linlin Xu , David A. Clausi

In this study, we examine the potential of high-resolution forest mapping using L-band interferometric time series datasets and deep learning modeling. Our SAR data are represented by a time series of nine ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 dual-pol SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Chiara Telli , Oleg Antropov , Anne Lönnqvist , Marco Lavalle

Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Francesca Razzano , Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Gilda Schirinzi

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

While advances in machine learning with satellite imagery (SatML) are facilitating environmental monitoring at a global scale, developing SatML models that are accurate and useful for local regions remains critical to understanding and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Esther Rolf , Lucia Gordon , Milind Tambe , Andrew Davies

Originally developed in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving with image-based navigation in mind, deep learning-based single-image depth estimation (SIDE) has found great interest in the wider image analysis community. Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

We present a new 10-meter map of dominant tree species in Swedish forests accompanied by pixel-level uncertainty estimates. The tree species classification is based on spatiotemporal metrics derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Abdulhakim M. Abdi , Fan Wang

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown promising success in recovering high-frequency details by utilizing an external reference image (Ref). In this task, texture details are transferred from the Ref image to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Liying Lu , Wenbo Li , Xin Tao , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

Mapping standing dead trees is critical for assessing forest health, monitoring biodiversity, and mitigating wildfire risks, for which aerial imagery has proven useful. However, dense canopy structures, spectral overlaps between living and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Anis Ur Rahman , Einari Heinaro , Mete Ahishali , Samuli Junttila

High-resolution images for remote sensing applications are often not affordable or accessible, especially when in need of a wide temporal span of recordings. Given the easy access to low-resolution (LR) images from satellites, many remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Matheus Barros Pereira , Jefersson Alex dos Santos

High-resolution satellite imagery is essential for geospatial analysis, yet differences in spatial resolution across satellite sensors present challenges for data fusion and downstream applications. Super-resolution techniques can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Philip Wootaek Shin , Vishal Gaur , Rahul Ramachandran , Manil Maskey , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Sujit Roy

Sea surface height (SSH) is a key geophysical parameter for monitoring and studying meso-scale surface ocean dynamics. For several decades, the mapping of SSH products at regional and global scales has relied on nadir satellite altimeters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Quentin Febvre , Clément Ubelmann , Julien Le Sommer , Ronan Fablet

We present PrediTree, the first comprehensive open-source dataset designed for training and evaluating tree height prediction models at sub-meter resolution. This dataset combines very high-resolution (0.5m) LiDAR-derived canopy height…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hiyam Debary , Mustansar Fiaz , Levente Klein

Hyperspectral single image super-resolution (HS-SISR) aims to enhance the spatial resolution of hyperspectral images to fully exploit their spectral information. While considerable progress has been made in this field, most existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Xinxin Xu , Yann Gousseau , Christophe Kervazo , Saïd Ladjal