An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Forest Height Estimation from Multi-Polarimetric Multi-Baseline SAR data
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| author | Razzano, Francesca Yang, Wenyu Vitale, Sergio Ferraioli, Giampaolo Ullo, Silvia Liberata Schirinzi, Gilda |
| author_facet | Razzano, Francesca Yang, Wenyu Vitale, Sergio Ferraioli, Giampaolo Ullo, Silvia Liberata Schirinzi, Gilda |
| contents | Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest structure reconstruction through model-based techniques. More recently, data-driven approaches using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) have enabled new opportunities for forest parameter retrieval. This paper introduces FGump, a forest height estimation framework by gradient boosting using multi-channel SAR processing with LiDAR profiles as Ground Truth(GT). Unlike typical ML and DL approaches that require large datasets and complex architectures, FGump ensures a strong balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, using a limited set of hand-designed features and avoiding heavy preprocessing (e.g., calibration and/or quantization). Evaluated under both classification and regression paradigms, the proposed framework demonstrates that the regression formulation enables fine-grained, continuous estimations and avoids quantization artifacts by resulting in more precise measurements without rounding. Experimental results confirm that FGump outperforms State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI-based and classical methods, achieving higher accuracy and significantly lower training and inference times, as demonstrated in our results. |
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| spellingShingle | An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Forest Height Estimation from Multi-Polarimetric Multi-Baseline SAR data Razzano, Francesca Yang, Wenyu Vitale, Sergio Ferraioli, Giampaolo Ullo, Silvia Liberata Schirinzi, Gilda Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest structure reconstruction through model-based techniques. More recently, data-driven approaches using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) have enabled new opportunities for forest parameter retrieval. This paper introduces FGump, a forest height estimation framework by gradient boosting using multi-channel SAR processing with LiDAR profiles as Ground Truth(GT). Unlike typical ML and DL approaches that require large datasets and complex architectures, FGump ensures a strong balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, using a limited set of hand-designed features and avoiding heavy preprocessing (e.g., calibration and/or quantization). Evaluated under both classification and regression paradigms, the proposed framework demonstrates that the regression formulation enables fine-grained, continuous estimations and avoids quantization artifacts by resulting in more precise measurements without rounding. Experimental results confirm that FGump outperforms State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI-based and classical methods, achieving higher accuracy and significantly lower training and inference times, as demonstrated in our results. |
| title | An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Forest Height Estimation from Multi-Polarimetric Multi-Baseline SAR data |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20798 |