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The next generation of Mars rotorcrafts requires on-board autonomous hazard avoidance landing. To this end, this work proposes a system that performs continuous multi-resolution height map reconstruction and safe landing spot detection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Pedro F. Proença , Jeff Delaune , Roland Brockers

The use of satellite imagery has become increasingly popular for disaster monitoring and response. After a disaster, it is important to prioritize rescue operations, disaster response and coordinate relief efforts. These have to be carried…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jigar Doshi , Saikat Basu , Guan Pang

Modern Earth Observation systems provide sensing data at different temporal and spatial resolutions. Among optical sensors, today the Sentinel-2 program supplies high-resolution temporal (every 5 days) and high spatial resolution (10m)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 P. Benedetti , D. Ienco , R. Gaetano , K. Osé , R. Pensa , S. Dupuy

Synthetic aperture radar tomographic imaging reconstructs the three-dimensional reflectivity of a scene from a set of coherent acquisitions performed in an interferometric configuration. In forest areas, a large number of elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Zoé Berenger , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin , Laurent Ferro-Famil , Yue Huang

In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Lloyd H. Hughes , Michael Schmitt , Lichao Mou , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In this paper we consider physics-informed detection of terrain material change in radar imagery (e.g., shifts in permittivity, roughness or moisture). We propose a lightweight electromagnetic (EM) forward model to simulate bi-temporal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Abdel Hakiem Mohamed Abbas Mohamed Ahmed , Beth Jelfs , Airlie Chapman , Eric Schoof , Christopher Gilliam

Image matching, which establishes correspondences between two-view images to recover 3D structure and camera geometry, serves as a cornerstone in computer vision and underpins a wide range of applications, including visual localization, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shihua Zhang , Zizhuo Li , Kaining Zhang , Yifan Lu , Yuxin Deng , Linfeng Tang , Xingyu Jiang , Jiayi Ma

Globally 800 million people live within 100 km of a volcano and currently 1500 volcanoes are considered active, but half of these have no ground-based monitoring. Alternatively, satellite radar (InSAR) can be employed to observe volcanic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 N. Anantrasirichai , F. Albino , P. Hill , D. Bull , J. Biggs

Robust Mask R-CNN (Mask Regional Convolu-tional Neural Network) methods are proposed and tested for automatic detection of cracks on structures or their components that may be damaged during extreme events, such as earth-quakes. We curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yongsheng Bai , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

Synthetic Aperture Radar is known to be able to provide high-resolution estimates of surface wind speed. These estimates usually rely on a Geophysical Model Function (GMF) that has difficulties accounting for non-wind processes such as rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Aurélien Colin , Pierre Tandeo , Charles Peureux , Romain Husson , Ronan Fablet

Deploying deep learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is becoming more common for mapping purposes. One such case is sea ice, which is highly dynamic and rapidly changes as a result of the combined effect of wind, temperature, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Morteza Karimzadeh , Rafael Pires de Lima

Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

Deep Learning is gaining traction with geophysics community to understand subsurface structures, such as fault detection or salt body in seismic data. This study describes using deep learning method for iceberg or ship recognition with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Cheng Zhan , Licheng Zhang , Zhenzhen Zhong , Sher Didi-Ooi , Youzuo Lin , Yunxi Zhang , Shujiao Huang , Changchun Wang

Understanding terrain topology at long-range is crucial for the success of off-road robotic missions, especially when navigating at high-speeds. LiDAR sensors, which are currently heavily relied upon for geometric mapping, provide sparse…

Most change detection methods assume that pre-change and post-change images are acquired by the same sensor. However, in many real-life scenarios, e.g., natural disaster, it is more practical to use the latest available images before and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Sudipan Saha , Patrick Ebel , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Sentinel-1, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Copernicus program, provides Free and Open Data with global coverage, transforming our ability to monitor subtle changes in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Manoochehr Shirzaei

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

\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

The flooding extent area in a river valley is related to river gauge observations. The higher the water elevation, the larger the flooding area. Due to synthetic aperture radar\textquoteright s (SAR) capabilities to penetrate through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Monika Gierszewska , Tomasz Berezowski

A problem with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is that due to the poor penetrating action of electromagnetic waves within solid bodies, the ability to observe through distributed targets is precluded. In this context, indeed, imaging is only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Filippo Biondi