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Land Cover (LC) mapping using satellite imagery is critical for environmental monitoring and management. Deep Learning (DL), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have revolutionized this field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Luigi Russo , Antonietta Sorriso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

European satellite missions Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide at highspatial resolution and high revisit time, respectively, radar and optical imagesthat support a wide range of Earth surface monitoring tasks such as LandUse/Land…

This paper investigates tree species classification using Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite image time-series. Despite their critical importance for many applications, such maps are often unavailable, outdated, or inaccurate for large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Florian Mouret , David Morin , Milena Planells , Cécile Vincent-Barbaroux

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

The FOR-instance dataset (available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8287792) addresses the challenge of accurate individual tree segmentation from laser scanning data, crucial for understanding forest ecosystems and sustainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Stefano Puliti , Grant Pearse , Peter Surový , Luke Wallace , Markus Hollaus , Maciej Wielgosz , Rasmus Astrup

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 program now provides multispectral images at a global scale with a high revisit rate. In this paper we explore the usage of convolutional neural networks for urban change detection using such multispectral images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Bertrand Le Saux , Alexandre Boulch , Yann Gousseau

In this article, we propose a model-driven deep learning (DL) approach that combines DL with the expert knowledge to replace the existing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver in wireless communications. Different from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-23 Xuanxuan Gao , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Geoffrey Ye Li

We propose a network for semantic mapping called the Dense Dilated Convolutions Merging Network (DDCM-Net) to provide a deep learning approach that can recognize multi-scale and complex shaped objects with similar color and textures, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qinghui Liu , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen , Arnt-Børre Salberg

The focus of this paper is using a convolutional machine learning model with a modified U-Net structure for creating land cover classification mapping based on satellite imagery. The aim of the research is to train and test convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Priit Ulmas , Innar Liiv

Several generic methods have recently been developed for change detection in heterogeneous remote sensing data, such as images from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multispectral radiometers. However, these are not well suited to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jørgen A. Agersborg , Luigi T. Luppino , Stian Normann Anfinsen , Jane Uhd Jepsen

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

Land cover mapping is essential to monitoring the environment and understanding the effects of human activities on it. The automatic approaches to land cover mapping (i.e., image segmentation) mostly used traditional machine learning that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Sanja Šćepanović , Oleg Antropov , Pekka Laurila , Yrjö Rauste , Vladimir Ignatenko , Jaan Praks

Quantifying forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is crucial for informing decisions and policies that will protect the planet. Machine learning (ML) and remote sensing (RS) techniques have been used to do this task more effectively, yet there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Autumn Nguyen , Sulagna Saha

Global environment monitoring is a task that requires additional attention in the contemporary rapid climate change environment. This includes monitoring the rate of deforestation and areas affected by flooding. Satellite imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Dmytro Filatov , Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar

\begin{abstract} The advent of multitemporal high resolution data, like the Copernicus Sentinel-2, has enhanced significantly the potential of monitoring the earth's surface and environmental dynamics. In this paper, we present a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Maria Papadomanolaki , Sagar Verma , Maria Vakalopoulou , Siddharth Gupta , Konstantinos Karantzalos

Optical high-resolution imagery and OSM data are two important data sources of change detection (CD). Previous related studies focus on utilizing the information in OSM data to aid the CD on optical high-resolution images. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Hongruixuan Chen , Cuiling Lan , Jian Song , Clifford Broni-Bediako , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

We introduce a novel deep learning method for detection of individual trees in urban environments using high-resolution multispectral aerial imagery. We use a convolutional neural network to regress a confidence map indicating the locations…

In the last few years, deep learning (DL) has been successfully and massively employed in computer vision for discriminative tasks, such as image classification or object detection. This kind of problems are core to many remote sensing (RS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Antonio Mazza , Francescopaolo Sica

Deep learning has shown state-of-art classification performance on datasets such as ImageNet, which contain a single object in each image. However, multi-object classification is far more challenging. We present a unified framework which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Tejaswi Nimmagadda , Anima Anandkumar

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