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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently shown promising progress in geospatial reasoning. However, existing remote sensing benchmarks remain largely 2D-centric, evaluating models primarily on optical appearance. In natural…

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Accurate information on the distribution of vegetation species is used as a proxy for the health of an ecosystem, a currency of international environmental treaties, and a necessary planning tool for forest preservation and rehabilitation,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-20 Henry Scharf , Jonathan Schierbaum , Hana Matsumoto , Tim Assal

Large-scale high spatial resolution aboveground biomass (AGB) maps play a crucial role in determining forest carbon stocks and how they are changing, which is instrumental in understanding the global carbon cycle, and implementing policy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenquan Dong , Edward T. A. Mitchard , Yuwei Chen , Man Chen , Congfeng Cao , Peilun Hu , Cong Xu , Steven Hancock

With the launch of Carto2S series of satellites, high resolution images (0.6-1.0 meters) are acquired and available for use. High resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with better accuracies can be generated using C2S multi-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jai G Singla

Recognising individual trees within remotely sensed imagery has important applications in forest ecology and management. Several algorithms for tree delineation have been suggested, mostly based on locating local maxima or inverted basins…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Juheon Lee , David Coomes , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb , Xiaohao Cai , Jan Lellmann , Michele Dalponte , Yadvinder Malhi , Nathalie Butt , Mike Morecroft

Providing reliable connectivity to cellular-connected UAV can be very challenging; their performance highly depends on the nature of the surrounding environment, such as density and heights of the ground BSs. On the other hand, tall…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Erika Fonseca , Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Luiz A. DaSilva , Ivana Dusparic

Multi-UAV Coverage Path Planning (mCPP) algorithms in popular commercial software typically treat a Region of Interest (RoI) only as a 2D plane, ignoring important3D structure characteristics. This leads to incomplete 3Dreconstructions,…

Accurate measurement of eyelid parameters such as Margin Reflex Distances (MRD1, MRD2) and Levator Function (LF) is critical in oculoplastic diagnostics but remains limited by manual, inconsistent methods. This study evaluates deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chun-Hung Chen

Underwater robotic vision encounters significant challenges, necessitating advanced solutions to enhance performance and adaptability. This paper presents MARS (Multi-Scale Adaptive Robotics Vision), a novel approach to underwater object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lyes Saad Saoud , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

Fine-scale soil mapping in Alaska, traditionally relying on fieldwork and localized simulations, remains a critical yet underdeveloped task, despite the region's ecological importance and extensive permafrost coverage. As permafrost thaw…

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For biodiversity and forestry applications, end-users desire maps of forests that are fully detailed, from the forest floor to the canopy. Terrestrial laser scanning and aerial laser scanning are accurate and increasingly mature methods for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Benoit Casseau , Nived Chebrolu , Matias Mattamala , Leonard Freissmuth , Maurice Fallon

The remote sensing (RS) domain suffers from a lack of densely labeled datasets, which are costly to obtain. Thus, models that can segment RS imagery well without supervised fine-tuning are valuable, but existing solutions fall behind…

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Reliable localization is essential for sustainable forest management, as it allows robots or sensor systems to revisit and monitor the status of individual trees over long periods. In modern forestry, this management is structured around…

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Habitats integrate the abiotic conditions, vegetation composition and structure that support biodiversity and sustain nature's contributions to people. Most habitats face mounting pressures from human activities, which requires accurate,…

Proximally-sensed laser scanning offers significant potential for automated forest data capture, but challenges remain in automatically identifying tree species without additional ground data. Deep learning (DL) shows promise for…

Widely used European land cover maps such as CORINE are produced at medium spatial resolutions (100 m) and rely on diverse data with complex workflows requiring significant institutional capacity. We present a high resolution (10 m) land…

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Current optical vegetation indices (VIs) for monitoring forest ecosystems are well established and widely used in various applications, but can be limited by atmospheric effects such as clouds. In contrast, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-27 Daniel Paluba , Bertrand Le Saux , Přemysl Stych

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

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…

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Accurate estimation of pasture biomass from agricultural imagery is critical for sustainable livestock management, yet existing methods are limited by the small, imbalanced, and sparsely annotated datasets typical of real world monitoring.…

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