arXiv Machine Learning

Mapping the evolution of small reservoirs in Brazil from 1984 to 2025 using deep learning

arXiv:2606. 00675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Water research in Brazil largely overlooks the widespread damming of small streams for agricultural uses such as watering cattle, farm-scale hydropower, irrigation, and aquaculture.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

A geometric and deep learning reproducible pipeline for monitoring floating anthropogenic debris in urban rivers using in situ cameras

arXiv:2510. 23798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of floating anthropogenic debris in rivers has emerged as a pressing environmental concern, exerting a detrimental influence on biodiversity, water quality, and human activities such as navigation and recreation.

By Gauthier Grimmer, Romain Wenger, Cl\'ement Flint, Germain Forestier, Gilles Rixhon, Valentin Chardon
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 Machine Learning
Jun 11

LakeFM: Toward a Foundation Model for Aquatic Ecosystems Using Irregular Multivariate Multi-depth Time Series Data

arXiv:2606. 11268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and forecasting lake dynamics is critical for monitoring water quality and ecosystem health across lakes and reservoirs.

By Abhilash Neog, Sepideh Fatemi, Medha Sawhney, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Aanish Pradhan, Bennett J. McAfee, Emma Marchisin, Arka Daw, Robert Ladwig, Cayelan C. Carey, Paul Hanson, Anuj Karpatne
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Tabular Deep Learning vs Classical Machine Learning for Urban Land Cover Classification

The paper compares classical machine learning algorithms—such as Logistic Regression, SVM, Random Forest, XGBoost, and CatBoost—with Tabular Deep Learning models (TabNet, FT-Transformer, TabTransformer, TabSeq, and 1D CNNs) for urban land cover classification using a UCI dataset derived from high‑resolution aerial imagery. It evaluates performance across nine land cover classes, addressing challenges like high dimensionality, heterogeneous features, and class imbalance by applying weighted cross‑entropy loss for deep models and measuring accuracy, macro‑precision, macro‑recall, macro‑F1, AUC‑ROC, and confusion matrices. Results indicate that while tree ensembles remain strong baselines, Tabular Deep Learning can match or surpass them when non‑linear interactions are prominent and imbalance handling is effective.

By Muntasir Tabasum, Tanpia Tasnim, Md. Ekramul Islam, Al Zadid Sultan Bin Habib