Agricultural monitoring faces unique challenges, arising from the landscape's complex temporal, phenological, and climate dynamics, yet monitoring them is critical for ensuring food security. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites offer all-weather day-night imaging capability supporting key monitoring tasks including crop type mapping, yield prediction and phenological event detection.
arXiv:2606. 05731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-season crop type mapping is critical for food security in the face of increasingly extreme climate-related threats to crops.
By August Posch, Jitendra Kumar, Forrest M. Hoffman, Auroop R. Ganguly
arXiv:2609.38165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The landscape of satellite imagery time series datasets and boundary-pushing architectures for cropland segmentation has never been richer. However,...
By Joseph Metcalfe, Sara Sharifzadeh, Fabio Caraffini
arXiv:2603.27519v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Image-based plant phenotyping depends on dense structural understanding of crops, yet pixel-level annotation remains expensive across species, orga...
By Shuai Xiang, James Burridge, Shouyang Liu, Hao Lu, Tokihiro Fukatsu, Yinqiang Zheng, Wei Guo
AgroBench is a reproducible benchmark that converts U.S. county-level crop yield statistics into weakly supervised pixel‑level crop time series. The data generation pipeline fuses USDA yield data with land cover masks, Sentinel‑2 and Sentinel‑1 imagery, climatic variables, and terrain information to produce multimodal sequences for individual crop pixels across the growing season. The benchmark includes over 13 million observations from 788,654 crop pixels, covering 5,107 county‑year combinations for five major U.S. crops from 2017 to 2024, and establishes a Leave‑One‑Year‑Out evaluation protocol with baseline machine learning results.
By Udaiveer Singh, Rajiv Ranjan, Shashank Tamaskar, Dharmendra Saraswat
arXiv:2607. 04449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Field-boundary maps support crop monitoring, irrigation planning, and yield estimation, but many smallholder parcels span only a few 10 m Sentinel-2 pixels.
By Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marcus, Hannah Kerner
arXiv:2409.13568v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Accurate delineation of agricultural field boundaries is essential for effective crop monitoring and resource management. However, competing method...
By Foivos I. Diakogiannis, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Jeff Wang, Gonzalo Mata, Dave Henry, Roger Lawes, Amy Parker, Peter Caccetta, Suzanne Furby, Rodrigo Ibata, Ondrej Hlinka, Jonathan Richetti, Kathryn Batchelor, Chris Herrmann, Andrew Toovey, John Taylor
The study presents a new approach to detect Christmas tree plantations in high‑resolution aerial imagery, treating the task as a rare‑target semantic segmentation problem. It introduces a Hard Negative Mining strategy that significantly improves precision‑recall performance, achieving an IoU of 0.733 and an F1‑score of 0.846 on a 2020 test set. Temporal transfer experiments demonstrate the model’s ability to generalize across years, while large‑scale validation highlights the challenge posed by the plantations’ small spatial footprint.
By Francesca Razzano, Emanuele Dalsasso, Adrien Baysse-Lain\'e, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Gilda Schirinzi, Jocelyn Chanussot
arXiv:2607. 21881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agricultural field maps are often proprietary, incomplete, or outdated, yet they provide the spatial framework for crop monitoring, production accounting, and land-conversion analysis.
By Mohammadreza Narimani, Vikram Anand, Parastoo Farajpoor
arXiv:2608.30088v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate detection of tomato growth stages is essential for stage-specific greenhouse management and precision agriculture. In Bhutan, greenhouse culti...
By Sherab Gocha, Sou Nobukawa
arXiv:2608.30392v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Global food security and sustainable climate action increasingly rely on robust, scalable agricultural monitoring. Earth observation foundation models...
By Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Marc Ru{\ss}wurm, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
arXiv:2607. 14509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper describes DS@GT ARC's third-place solution to the PlantCLEF 2026 challenge on multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images, where systems must predict every species present in high-resolution (~3000 x 3000 pixel) plot photographs while training only on single-label images of individual plants.
By Alper Erten, Murilo Gustineli, Adrian Cheung