arXiv Machine Learning

Foundation-Model Earth Representations Enable Regional-Scale Forest Aboveground Biomass Monitoring Across the Northeastern United States

arXiv:2607. 27217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is a critical indicator of ecosystem productivity and terrestrial carbon storage, yet regional carbon monitoring remains constrained by the sparse spatial and temporal availability of field inventories and airborne structural measurements.

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

Above-ground Biomass Estimation with Geospatial Foundation Models

arXiv:2608. 04792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate estimation of Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) from satellite imagery is essential for the large-scale monitoring of carbon stocks, yet it remains a challenging regression task at global scale.

By Ghjulia Sialellia, Linus Scheibenreif, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

FLORA: A deep learning approach to predict forest attributes from heterogeneous LiDAR data

arXiv:2606. 32023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forest attributes are essential for national-scale resource monitoring.

By Emilie Vautier, Cl\'ement Mallet, C\'edric Vega

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 13

Transferable Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) Estimation Model from Multi-Sensor Data with Sparse Field Calibration

arXiv:2608. 11638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatially continuous quantification of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) is what makes carbon accounting credible and mitigation strategies actionable.

By Pann Thinzar Seint, Bryan Atwood, Subas Chhatkuli

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 19

Integrating national forest inventory, airborne lidar, and satellite imagery for wall-to-wall mapping of forest structure with computer vision

arXiv:2606. 20291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing is increasingly relied upon to deliver actionable science for forest and wildfire risk management across large landscapes.

By Luke J. Zachmann, David D. Diaz, Vincent A. Landau, Chelsey Walden-Schreiner, Tony Chang, Nathan E. Rutenbeck, Katharyn A. Duffy, Kiarie Ndegwa, Andreas Gros, Scott Conway, Guy Bayes

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arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 1

Foundation Models Meet Agriculture: Challenges Beyond Pretraining

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 24

Geospatial embeddings detect old-growth forests but buffered spatial validation narrows their advantage over Sentinel features

arXiv:2609.28194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Old-growth forests develop over centuries under minimal anthropogenic disturbance, producing structurally complex and biodiverse stands. In Europe, pro...

By Thomas Ratsakatika (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Mihai Zotta (Fundatia Conservation Carpathia, Brasov, Romania), Srinivasan Keshav (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Emily R. Lines (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 17

CarbonBench: A Global Benchmark for Upscaling of Carbon Fluxes Using Zero-Shot Learning

arXiv:2603. 09868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately quantifying terrestrial carbon exchange is essential for climate policy and carbon accounting, yet models must generalize to ecosystems underrepresented in sparse eddy covariance observations.

By Aleksei Rozanov, Arvind Renganathan, Yimeng Zhang, Vipin Kumar

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

Uncertainty Quantification for EO Regression Tasks: Building Height, Tree Canopy Height and Above-ground Biomass Estimation

arXiv:2607. 11412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Earth Observation regression tasks such as building height, canopy height, and above-ground biomass estimation underpin critical applications in urban planning, forest monitoring, and climate policy, where both accuracy and reliability are critical.

By Ritu Yadav, Andrea Nascetti, Yifang Ban

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 10

Deep Evidential Regression for Sparse Forest Height Estimation from Multimodal Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2608. 06406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate estimation of forest height from satellite imagery is essential for applications such as carbon accounting, biodiversity monitoring, and ecosystem management.

By Laura Bader, Muhammad Ammar Ahmed, Xiao Xiang Zhu, G\"oran Kauermann

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arXiv Computer Vision

Sep 1

SERA-H: Super-Resolution of Sentinel Time Series for Fine-Scale Canopy Height Mapping

arXiv:2512.18128v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-resolution mapping of canopy height is essential for forest management and biodiversity monitoring. Although recent studies have led to the ad...

By Thomas Boudras, Martin Schwartz, Rasmus Fensholt, Martin Brandt, Ibrahim Fayad, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Gabriel Belouze, Fajwel Fogel, Philippe Ciais

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 26

Self-Supervised Tree-level Biomass Estimation in Urban Environments From Airborne LiDAR and Optical Observations

arXiv:2606. 26194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban tree biomass remains less spatially explicitly quantified than biomass in managed forests because many estimates rely on inventories or coarse products that cannot resolve individual crowns or fine-scale heterogeneity.

By Jose Bermudez (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Zilong Zhong (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Dominic Cyr (, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Camile Sothe (Planet Labs PBC, San Francisco, California, USA), Alemu Gonsamo (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

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Jun 28

Miti360: A Comprehensive Dataset for Improved Reforestation Monitoring

Over the past decade, interest in applying machine learning (ML) to automate forest monitoring has grown significantly. However, existing training datasets are predominantly drawn from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, leaving a critical gap in African forestry data.

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