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Soil moisture sensing through biomass or vegetation canopy has challenged researchers, even those who use SAR sensors with penetration capabilities. This is mainly due to the imposed extra time and phase offsets on Radio Frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Luke Jacobs , Mohamad Alipour , Adam Watts , Elahe Soltanaghai

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

We propose a task-agnostic framework for multimodal fusion of time series and single timestamp images, enabling cross-modal generation and robust downstream performance. Our approach explores deterministic and learned strategies for time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gianfranco Basile , Johannes Jakubik , Benedikt Blumenstiel , Thomas Brunschwiler , Juan Bernabe Moreno

Optical satellite image time series are extensively used in many Earth observation applications, including agriculture, climate monitoring, and land surface analysis. However, clouds and swath edges result in irregular sampling along the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Véronique Defonte , Dawa Derksen , Alexandre Constantin , Bastien Nespoulous

There is an increasing number of real-world problems in computer vision and machine learning requiring to take into consideration multiple interpretation layers (modalities or views) of the world and learn how they relate to each other. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexandru-Raul Todoran , Marius Leordeanu

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an essential climate variable that can be measured via ground truth, remote sensing, or hybrid model methodologies. Here, we celebrate SST surveillance progress via the application of a few relevant…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Albert Larson , Ali Shafqat Akanda

In presenting an irrigation detection methodology that leverages multiscale satellite imagery of vegetation abundance, this paper introduces a process to supplement limited ground-collected labels and ensure classifier applicability in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Terence Conlon , Christopher Small , Vijay Modi

We introduce a simple yet effective early fusion method for crop yield prediction that handles multiple input modalities with different temporal and spatial resolutions. We use high-resolution crop yield maps as ground truth data to train…

A hybrid machine learning and process-based-modeling (PBM) approach is proposed and evaluated at a handful of AmeriFlux sites to simulate the top-layer soil moisture state. The Hybrid-PBM (HPBM) employed here uses the Noah land-surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Craig Pelissier , Jonathan Frame , Grey Nearing

Soil moisture monitoring is a fundamental process to enhance agricultural outcomes and to protect the environment. The traditional methods for measuring moisture content in soil are laborious and expensive, and therefore there is a growing…

Soil quality (SQ) plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation, and land-use planning. Traditional SQ assessment techniques rely on costly, labor-intensive sampling and laboratory analysis, limiting their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Habiba Ben Abderrahmane , Slimane Oulad-Naoui , Benameur Ziani

Soil moisture-precipitation coupling (SMPC) plays a critical role in Earth's water and energy cycles but remains difficult to quantify due to synoptic-scale variability and the complex interplay of land-atmosphere processes. Here, we apply…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Yifu Gao , Runze Li , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Jasper A. Vrugt

Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, causing both water scarcity and severe rainfall unpredictability, and posing threats to sustainable development, biodiversity, and access to water and sanitation. This paper aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Luigi Russo , Francesco Mauro , Babak Memar , Alessandro Sebastianelli , Paolo Gamba , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Earth observation satellites have been continuously monitoring the earth environment for years at different locations and spectral bands with different modalities. Due to complex satellite sensing conditions (e.g., weather, cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bo Peng , Hongchen Liu , Hang Zhou , Yuchuan Gou , Jui-Hsin Lai

Land use classification of low resolution spatial imagery is one of the most extensively researched fields in remote sensing. Despite significant advancements in satellite technology, high resolution imagery lacks global coverage and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 John Brandt

Obtaining reliable precipitation estimation with high resolutions in time and space is of great importance to hydrological studies. However, accurately estimating precipitation is a challenging task over high mountainous complex terrain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yihan Wang , Lujun Zhang

Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) is crucial for agricultural semantic segmentation. However, Cloud contamination introduces time gaps in SITS, disrupting temporal dependencies and causing feature shifts, leading to degraded performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuze Wang , Mariana Belgiu , Haiyang Wu , Dandan Zhong , Yangyang Cao , Chao Tao

This study aims to analyse the Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) pollution in the Emilia Romagna Region (Northern Italy) during 2019, with the help of satellite retrievals from the Sentinel-5P mission of the European Copernicus Programme and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Francesco Mauro , Luigi Russo , Fjoralba Janku , Alessandro Sebastianelli , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Reliable classification of Earth Observation data depends on consistent, up-to-date reference labels. However, collecting new labelled data at each time step remains expensive and logistically difficult, especially in dynamic or remote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Geethen Singh , Jasper A Slingsby , Tamara B Robinson , Glenn Moncrieff

For optimizing production yield while limiting negative environmental impact, sustainable agriculture benefits greatly from real-time, on-the-spot analysis of soil at low cost. Colorimetric paper sensors are ideal candidates for cheap and…