Mapping tropical forest cover and deforestation with Planet NICFI satellite images and deep learning in Mato Grosso State (Brazil) from 2015 to 2021

FH Wagner, R Dalagnol, CHL Silva-Junior, G Carter… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring changes in tree cover for assessment of deforestation is a premise for policies to
reduce carbon emission in the tropics. Here, a U-net deep learning model was used to map …

Integration of deep learning algorithms with a Bayesian method for improved characterization of tropical deforestation frontiers using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

R Sun, F Zhao, C Huang, H Huang, Z Lu, P Zhao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tropical deforestation frontiers continue to expand at alarming rates, but their fine-scale
temporal patterns (eg, start timing, patch forming speed, temporal clustering within a year) …

[HTML][HTML] How textural features can improve SAR-based tropical forest disturbance mapping

J Balling, M Herold, J Reiche - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Spatially and timely accurate information about tropical forest disturbances is crucial for
tracking critical forest changes, supporting forest management, and enabling law …

Leveraging past information and machine learning to accelerate land disturbance monitoring

S Ye, Z Zhu, JW Suh - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Near real-time (NRT) monitoring of land disturbances holds great importance for delivering
emergency aid, mitigating negative social and ecological impacts, and distributing resources …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning and automatic reference label harvesting for Sentinel-1 SAR-based rapid tropical dry forest disturbance mapping

A Mullissa, J Reiche, M Herold - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of temporally dense radar data such as the Sentinel-1 SAR have opened the
door for rapid forest disturbance detection in the humid tropics. Tropical dry forest …

Globally vs. Locally Trained Machine Learning Models for Landslide Detection: A Case Study of a Glacial Landscape

AJ Ganerød, E Lindsay, O Fredin, TA Myrvoll, S Nordal… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Landslide risk mitigation is limited by data scarcity; however, this could be improved using
continuous landslide detection systems. To investigate which image types and machine …

Inter-comparison of optical and SAR-based forest disturbance warning systems in the Amazon shows the potential of combined SAR-optical monitoring

J Doblas Prieto, L Lima, S Mermoz… - … Journal of Remote …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
More than half a decade after the launch of the Sentinel-1A C-band SAR satellite, several
near real-time forest disturbances detection systems based on backscattering time series …

Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

AJ Welsink, J Reiche, V De Sy, S Carter… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and
interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as …

A multi-source change detection algorithm supporting user customization and near real-time deforestation detections

IR McGregor, G Connette, JM Gray - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The abundance of free and accessible satellite data has revolutionized our ability to study
deforestation with remote sensing. Recent advances have enabled us to monitor …

ReCuSum: A polyvalent method to monitor tropical forest disturbances

Y Bertrand, F Frederic, W Jean-Pierre… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Change detection methods based on Earth Observations are increasingly used to monitor
rainforest in the intertropical band. Until recently, deforestation monitoring was mainly based …