Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security

K Deininger, DA Ali, N Kussul, A Shelestov, G Lemoine… - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects
of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from …

Remote sensing of diverse urban environments: From the single city to multiple cities

G Chen, Y Zhou, JA Voogt, EC Stokes - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of urban environments has unveiled a significant shift from single-city
investigations to the inclusion of multiple cities. Originated from the ideas of the Remote …

Monitoring war‐generated environmental security using remote sensing: A review

G Kaplan, T Rashid, M Gasparovic… - Land degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The negative impact humans have on the environment directly affects the environmental
security. Over the years, it has been proven that wars make drastic and sometimes …

Earth observation and artificial intelligence: Understanding emerging ethical issues and opportunities

M Kochupillai, M Kahl, M Schmitt… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ethics is a central and growing concern in all applications utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).
Earth observation (EO) and remote sensing (RS) research relies heavily on both big data …

Engineering value: The returns to technological talent and investments in artificial intelligence

D Rock - Available at SSRN 3427412, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Employees with technological skills are highly complementary to the intangible knowledge
assets that firms accumulate. This paper describes how technical talent is a source of rents …

Detection and mapping of artillery craters with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery and deep learning

EC Duncan, S Skakun, A Kariryaa… - Science of Remote …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unexploded munitions are some of the most enduring remnants of conflicts around the
world. Their effects on the economy, health, environment, and post-conflict rehabilitation are …

Toward the remote monitoring of armed conflicts

V Sticher, JD Wegner, B Pfeifle - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the
spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily used for military and intelligence …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid U-Net: Semantic segmentation of high-resolution satellite images to detect war destruction

S Nabiee, M Harding, J Hersh… - Machine Learning with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Destruction caused by violent conflicts play a big role in understanding the dynamics and
consequences of conflicts, which is now the focus of a large body of ongoing literature in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing damage to agricultural fields from military actions in Ukraine: An integrated approach using statistical indicators and machine learning

N Kussul, S Drozd, H Yailymova, A Shelestov… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to widespread damage of
agricultural lands, jeopardizing global food security. Timely detection of impacted fields …

Classification performance assessment for imbalanced multiclass data

JS Aguilar-Ruiz, M Michalak - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The evaluation of diagnostic systems is pivotal for ensuring the deployment of high-quality
solutions, especially given the pronounced context-sensitivity of certain systems, particularly …