arXiv AI

EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping

arXiv:2607. 06105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution RGB imagery acquired from low-altitude UAV surveys was processed through a modular pipeline incorporating transformer-based semantic segmentation, connected-component vegetation extraction, fine-grained species classification using a ConvNeXt architecture, and grid-based dominance scoring at 2x2m resolution.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

Leveraging Image Generators to Address Data Scarcity: The Gen4Regen Dataset for Forest Regeneration Mapping

arXiv:2605. 05627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sustainable forest management relies on precise species composition mapping, yet traditional ground surveys are labour-intensive and geographically constrained.

By Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, No\'e Cochet, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Anthony Desch\^enes, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

NEST3D: A High-Resolution Multimodal Dataset of Sociable Weaver Tree Nests

arXiv:2606. 14562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sociable weaver nests function as complex ecological structures offering thermoregulatory microhabitats and sustaining diverse species; however, datasets used in prior studies lack fine-grained 3D structural detail.

By Constanza A. Molina Catricheo, Simon Boeder, Ting-Jia Guo, Giacomo May, Cl\'ement Berthelot, Devis Tuia, Friedrich Fedor Reinhard, Fabio Remondino, Benjamin Risse
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery

arXiv:2606. 00548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) play an important role in agricultural production but are also associated with environmental, public health, and disease surveillance concerns.

By Oishee Bintey Hoque, Nibir Chandra Mandal, Mandy L Wilson, Samarth Swarup, Madhav Marathe, Abhijin Adiga
arXiv AI
Aug 24

WeedNet: A Foundation Model-Based Global-to-Local AI Approach for Real-Time Weed Species Identification and Classification

arXiv:2505.18930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Early weed identification is crucial for effective management and control, and researchers, agronomists, and technology developers are increa...

By Yanben Shen, Timilehin T. Ayanlade, Venkata Naresh Boddepalli, Mojdeh Saadati, Ashlyn Rairdin, Zi K. Deng, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Aditya Balu, Daren Mueller, Asheesh K Singh, Wesley Everman, Nirav Merchant, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Meaghan Anderson, Soumik Sarkar, Arti Singh
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Detection of Christmas tree plantations from high-resolution aerial imagery. A case study in the French Morvan

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 Computer Vision
Aug 26

Comparative Assessment of Deep Learning Architectures for Underwater Subsurface Kelp Forest Segmentation with The Kelp-o-Tron

arXiv:2608.24594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Submerged kelp forests are vital coastal ecosystems that support marine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, yet accurate underwater kelp segmentation...

By Sundarabalan Balasubramanian, C\'esar Borja, Ana C. Murillo, Lexi N. Wilkes, Meredith L. McPherson, Kira A. Krumhansl, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Mapping Woody Vegetation from Multi-Source Imagery and Prediction Fusion for Enhanced Data Efficiency and Accuracy

The paper presents a framework that enhances deep‑learning tree‑cover mapping in New South Wales by fusing multiple imagery sources and normalizing image quality. It introduces an image‑composition technique that removes defects and a prediction‑fusion method that reduces reliance on any single image, together cutting errors by 38.2 % and 53.6 % respectively. Label transfer across diverse imagery further boosts data efficiency, yielding error reductions of 28.1 %–76.2 % and a 13‑fold decrease in performance variability across dates.

By Kal Backman, Jared Wood, Adam Roff
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Tackling fluffy clouds: robust agricultural field boundary delineation from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite image time series

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