Generative model downgrades coarse satellite images to fine resolution.
problem Reconstructing fine resolution satellite images from coarse scale inputs.
method Combines U-Net transfer encoder with diffusion-based generative model.
result Excellent performance (R2 = 0.65 to 0.94) across seasonal regional splits.
Time-aware deep learning methods improve spatial downscaling of atmospheric pollutants.
problem Transform coarse satellite data of atmospheric pollutants into high-resolution fields.
method Super-resolution deep residual networks and UNet architectures are extended with a temporal module encoding observation time.
result Temporal modules significantly improve downscaling performance and convergence speed.
Generative adversarial networks generate realistic, time-evolving high-resolution atmospheric fields.
problem Improving spatial resolution of low-resolution atmospheric images.
method Recurrent, stochastic super-resolution GAN for generating ensembles of time-evolving high-resolution atmospheric fields.
result The GAN produces realistic, temporally consistent super-resolution sequences for radar-measured precipitation and cloud optical thickness.
Enhances VAEs for sharper image synthesis.
problem Blurriness in generated images from VAEs.
method Integrates a downscaled version of the original image into the VAE framework and uses it as input to the decoder.
result Improves FID score in image synthesis while maintaining similar log-likelihood performance.
Unsupervised method removes satellite noise without paired data.
problem Image artifacts from satellite sensor noises affect quality and applications.
method Wavelet subband cycleGAN using adversarial and cycle-consistency losses.
result Effectively removes satellite noise while preserving high frequency features.
Satellite images improve real-estate price predictions.
problem Improving accuracy of real-estate price predictions.
method Used convolutional neural networks (CNN) to incorporate satellite image data.
result CNN model trained on satellite images and structured data performs 7% better in MAE.
ClimAlign uses deep learning for unsupervised climate downscaling.
problem Downscaling climate variables from coarse to fine scales.
method Unsupervised statistical downscaling using normalizing flows.
result ClimAlign achieves comparable predictive performance to supervised methods.
Satellite images predict U.S. county mortality rates.
problem Predicting mortality rates in U.S. counties using satellite imagery.
method Convolutional neural network trained on crude mortality rates, learned features interpreted using Shapley Additive Feature Explanations.
result Predicted mortality from satellite images correlated strongly with true mortality rates (Pearson r=0.72).
Remote Sensing Images from satellites have been used in various domains for detecting and understanding structures on the ground surface. In this work, satellite images were used for localizing parking spaces and vehicles in parking lots for a given parcel using an RCNN based Neural Network Architectures. Parcel shapef…
Deep learning improves stochastic downscaling of climate variables.
problem Accurately capturing climatic variability at local scales.
method Proposed improvements to GANs for stochastic downscaling of climate variables.
result Improved stochastic calibration of GANs for high-resolution climate predictions.
FedSpace optimizes ML training on satellites and ground stations.
problem Training machine learning models on satellites with limited bandwidth.
method Federated Learning framework that dynamically schedules model aggregation based on satellite orbits.
result Reduces training time by 1.7 days over state-of-the-art algorithms.
Compact satellite tech detects flooded areas quickly.
problem Rapid access to satellite data and automatic flood detection.
method Automatically identifies cloud, water, and land in satellite images onboard small satellites.
result Reduced downlink bandwidth by 2 orders of magnitude.
Satellite imagery improves house price prediction models.
problem Improving accuracy of housing price estimation models.
method Transfer learning from ImageNet-pretrained Inception-v3 model to satellite images.
result Achieved a 10% improvement in R-squared score.
New approach combines likelihood and adversarial losses for better precipitation predictions.
problem Spatially inconsistent precipitation projections from likelihood-based models.
method Fuses likelihood-based and adversarial losses for generative models.
result Improves spatial consistency in precipitation downscaling.
Researchers use DL and XAI to evaluate climate downscaling models.
problem Evaluating complex DL models for climate downscaling.
method Intercompare DL models, expand standard evaluation methods with XAI.
result XAI techniques provide new evaluation dimensions and model insights.
Satellite imagery helps adjust for unobserved confounders in observational studies.
problem Adjusting for confounding factors in observational studies with non-tabular data like satellite imagery.
method Formalizing conditions for causal effect identification, estimation, and sensitivity analysis.
result Demonstrated the use of satellite imagery as a proxy for unobserved confounders in anti-poverty aid programs.
New method improves local precipitation predictions using video diffusion.
problem Limited high-resolution local precipitation predictions due to computational costs.
method Extends video diffusion models to capture conditional distribution of high-resolution patterns.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in CRPS, MSE, and precipitation distribution.
Deep learning model predicts tropical cyclone intensification using satellite images.
problem Accurately predicting rapid intensification of tropical cyclones.
method Attention-based deep learning model using satellite images.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional methods in RI prediction.
Machine learning detects building damage in satellite images.
problem Extracting damage information from satellite imagery is slow and labor-intensive.
method Used four convolutional neural network models to detect damaged buildings.
result Models performed well in detecting damaged buildings in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Obtaining detailed and reliable data about local economic livelihoods in developing countries is expensive, and data are consequently scarce. Previous work has shown that it is possible to measure local-level economic livelihoods using high-resolution satellite imagery. However, such imagery is relatively expensive to …
Statistical downscaling of global climate models (GCMs) allows researchers to study local climate change effects decades into the future. A wide range of statistical models have been applied to downscaling GCMs but recent advances in machine learning have not been explored. In this paper, we compare four fundamental st…
Improved satellite image captions enhance descriptiveness without large models.
problem Extracting meaningful text from satellite imagery.
method Evaluated seven models on a large benchmark, extended vocabulary, and introduced a novel confusion matrix.
result Reduced model size by 100x without sacrificing accuracy, offering new deployment opportunities.
Bayesian deconditioning improves downscaling of spatial fields.
problem Challenges in refining low-resolution spatial fields with high-resolution information.
method Proposes a Bayesian formulation of deconditioning to solve the inverse problem of conditional expectation.
result Shows substantial improvements in atmospheric field downscaling over existing methods.
The study identifies core and satellite segments in the cryptocurrency market.
problem Identifying similar cryptocurrencies for strategic asset allocation.
method Segmentation of the cryptocurrency market using image / pattern recognition methods.
result Core and satellite segments identified in the cryptocurrency market.
Study evaluates deep learning methods for climate downscaling over Spain.
problem Deep learning methods' extrapolation capability for climate projections.
method Intercomparison experiment using PP and RCM emulation models.
result Existing models struggle with extrapolating unseen conditions.
We conjecture that satellite operations are either constant or have infinite rank in the concordance group. We reduce this to the difficult case of winding number zero satellites, and use SO(3) gauge theory to provide a general criterion sufficient for the image of a satellite operation to generate an infinite rank s…
Generative model improves wind field downscaling from coarse climate models.
problem Limited spatial resolution and biases in GCMs for wind energy studies.
method SerpentFlow for domain alignment and conditional fine-scale learning.
result Improved spatial coherence, inter-variable consistency, robustness under climate change.
In this paper, the authors aim to combine the latest state of the art models in image recognition with the best publicly available satellite images to create a system for landslide risk mitigation. We focus first on landslide detection and further propose a similar system to be used for prediction. Such models are valu…
EnScale learns to downscale climate models efficiently, capturing both spatial and temporal consistency.
problem Downscaling climate models from coarse to high-resolution data is computationally expensive and challenging.
method EnScale uses generative models and proper scoring rules to map GCM data to RCM data, reducing computational cost.
result EnScale achieves competitive performance and computational efficiency in downscaling multiple climate variables.
Quantum machine learning improves satellite image alignment.
problem Align satellite images taken at different times and angles.
method Quantum machine learning techniques for feature extraction and matching.
result Quantum methods show potential for future improvements.
High-resolution satellite imagery have been increasingly used on remote sensing classification problems. One of the main factors is the availability of this kind of data. Even though, very little effort has been placed on the zebra crossing classification problem. In this letter, crowdsourcing systems are exploited in …
Improved electrical load forecasting model using Fourier-enhanced RNN.
problem Electrical load time series downscaling with high accuracy and low error.
method Combines recurrent neural network with Fourier seasonal embeddings and self-attention.
result Significantly reduces RMSE across different time horizons compared to existing methods.
Self-supervised VAEs improve data compression and generation.
problem Efficient data compression and generation.
method Introducing self-supervised Variational Auto-Encoders with deterministic and discrete variational posteriors.
result Self-supervised VAEs simplify the objective function and improve data reconstruction.
Generative deep learning improves precipitation forecasts by adding resolution.
problem Inaccurate and unreliable precipitation forecasts due to unresolved processes.
method Applying GANs to super-resolve low-resolution weather model data using radar measurements.
result GANs and VAE-GANs produce high-resolution precipitation maps with better statistical properties than existing methods.
Study uses CNNs to upscale wind speed data from 100 km to 3 km, improving subgrid-scale variability.
problem Recovering fine-scale wind speed information from coarse data.
method Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with different input configurations (coarse wind speed, fine-scale topography, diurnal cycle) were tested.
result CNN models with coarse wind and fine topography inputs perform best in generalizing to unseen regions.
We study the effect of satellite operations on the Upsilon invariant of Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo. We obtain results concerning when a knot and its satellites are independent; for example, we show that the set {D2i,1}i=1∞ is a basis for an infinite rank summand of the group of smooth concordance classes o…
New neural network captures spatial correlations in wind speed predictions.
problem Uncertainty quantification in neural network predictions for high-dimensional, correlated data.
method Training neural networks with multidimensional Gaussian loss, preserving spatial correlation and computational tractability.
result Demonstrated super-resolution of surface wind speed with explicit correlation modeling.
Study uses cGAN to translate multispectral to nighttime satellite imagery.
problem Limited understanding of nighttime satellite imagery composition.
method Adopted and modified pix2pix cGAN framework for multispectral-to-nighttime translation.
result Proves feasibility of multispectral-to-nighttime translation.
Study satellite operators expanding concordance groups and their applications.
problem Understanding satellite operators and their impact on concordance groups.
method Floer-theoretic methods to analyze satellite operators and their effects on concordance groups.
result Established a Floer-theoretic condition for infinite-rank images of companion knots under satellite operators.
As Super-Resolution (SR) has matured as a research topic, it has been applied to additional topics beyond image reconstruction. In particular, combining classification or object detection tasks with a super-resolution preprocessing stage has yielded improvements in accuracy especially with objects that are small relati…
Satellite operators generate infinite rank subgroups in knot concordance.
problem Understanding the structure of the knot concordance group under satellite operations.
method Using amenable L2-signatures, we analyze the image of iterated satellite operators. result The iterated satellite operator generates infinite rank subgroups in the knot concordance group.
This paper presents a useful method to achieve classification in satellite imagery. The approach is based on pixel level study employing various features such as correlation, homogeneity, energy and contrast. In this study gray-scale images are used for training the classification model. For supervised classification, …
New methods detect roads in low-res satellite data, overcoming visibility challenges.
problem Detecting roads in low-resolution satellite imagery, especially those hard to see.
method Two deep learning frameworks for ordinal classification of road types from satellite time series data.
result Models can identify large and medium-sized roads from Sentinel-2 imagery.
A cased-based reasoning method predicts rare events on strategic sites using satellite imagery.
problem Manual prediction of rare events on strategic sites is impractical due to large datasets.
method Case-based reasoning approach incorporating expert knowledge for irregular time series and small datasets.
result The method significantly outperforms random selection on challenging applications.
Generative adversarial approach for satellite image time series land cover classification.
problem Enhance interpretability of land cover classification models.
method Generative adversarial counterfactual approach for multi-class land cover classification.
result Discovery of interesting information on land cover class relationships and sparser, interpretable solutions.
Improved detection of burnt areas in satellite images using evolved hyper-features.
problem Radiometric variations across satellite images and different datasets.
method Understanding feature spaces, training on multi-image datasets, evolving hyper-features, and optimizing for different classifiers.
result Training on multi-image datasets improves model generalization, and evolved hyper-features enhance classifier performance.
The paper classifies U.S. crop types using hyperspectral satellite imagery.
problem Classifying crop types from hyperspectral satellite imagery.
method Gaussian Bayesian models and neural networks applied to NASA data.
result Bayesian methods outperform standard LDA and QDA.
Estimates spatio-temporal data with satellite NO2 concentrations using Yule-Walker equations.
problem Estimating large spatio-temporal autoregressions with unknown spatial interactions.
method Sparse generalized Yule-Walker estimation, penalized regression, spatial and temporal dependence.
result Strong forecast improvements and evidence of spatial interactions in NO2 satellite data.