Annotating Satellite Images of Forests with Keywords from a Specialized Corpus in the Context of Change Detection

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author Neptune, Nathalie
Mothe, Josiane
author_facet Neptune, Nathalie
Mothe, Josiane
contents The Amazon rain forest is a vital ecosystem that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate and providing habitat for countless species. Deforestation in the Amazon is a major concern as it has a significant impact on global carbon emissions and biodiversity. In this paper, we present a method for detecting deforestation in the Amazon using image pairs from Earth observation satellites. Our method leverages deep learning techniques to compare the images of the same area at different dates and identify changes in the forest cover. We also propose a visual semantic model that automatically annotates the detected changes with relevant keywords. The candidate annotation for images are extracted from scientific documents related to the Amazon region. We evaluate our approach on a dataset of Amazon image pairs and demonstrate its effectiveness in detecting deforestation and generating relevant annotations. Our method provides a useful tool for monitoring and studying the impact of deforestation in the Amazon. While we focus on environment applications of our work by using images of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach, it is generic enough to be applied to other domains.
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spellingShingle Annotating Satellite Images of Forests with Keywords from a Specialized Corpus in the Context of Change Detection
Neptune, Nathalie
Mothe, Josiane
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Multimedia
I.2; I.4; I.7; H.3
The Amazon rain forest is a vital ecosystem that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate and providing habitat for countless species. Deforestation in the Amazon is a major concern as it has a significant impact on global carbon emissions and biodiversity. In this paper, we present a method for detecting deforestation in the Amazon using image pairs from Earth observation satellites. Our method leverages deep learning techniques to compare the images of the same area at different dates and identify changes in the forest cover. We also propose a visual semantic model that automatically annotates the detected changes with relevant keywords. The candidate annotation for images are extracted from scientific documents related to the Amazon region. We evaluate our approach on a dataset of Amazon image pairs and demonstrate its effectiveness in detecting deforestation and generating relevant annotations. Our method provides a useful tool for monitoring and studying the impact of deforestation in the Amazon. While we focus on environment applications of our work by using images of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach, it is generic enough to be applied to other domains.
title Annotating Satellite Images of Forests with Keywords from a Specialized Corpus in the Context of Change Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Multimedia
I.2; I.4; I.7; H.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13586