High Resolution Satellite
High-resolution satellite imagery is revolutionizing Earth observation, enabling detailed analysis across diverse applications from disaster response to agricultural monitoring. Current research emphasizes developing and adapting deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based architectures like U-Net and its variants, for tasks such as object detection, segmentation, and super-resolution. These advancements are significantly impacting various fields, improving the accuracy and efficiency of tasks ranging from building damage assessment and flood mapping to precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. The development of large, publicly available datasets is also a key focus, facilitating model training and benchmarking across different satellite sensors and geographic locations.
Papers
Very high resolution canopy height maps from RGB imagery using self-supervised vision transformer and convolutional decoder trained on Aerial Lidar
Jamie Tolan, Hung-I Yang, Ben Nosarzewski, Guillaume Couairon, Huy Vo, John Brandt, Justine Spore, Sayantan Majumdar, Daniel Haziza, Janaki Vamaraju, Theo Moutakanni, Piotr Bojanowski, Tracy Johns, Brian White, Tobias Tiecke, Camille Couprie
L1BSR: Exploiting Detector Overlap for Self-Supervised Single-Image Super-Resolution of Sentinel-2 L1B Imagery
Ngoc Long Nguyen, Jérémy Anger, Axel Davy, Pablo Arias, Gabriele Facciolo