5 papers
AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery
Suraj Prasai, Kangning Cui, Rongkun Zhu +5
Forest imagery analysis often involves multiple tightly coupled vision tasks, which must be performed under substantial variation in geographic regions, sensors, and acquisition co…
ELDOR: A Dataset and Benchmark for Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest
Kangning Cui, Surendra Bohara, Suraj Prasai +12
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest causes deforestation, water contamination, and long-term ecosystem disruption, yet remains difficult to monitor at fine spatial scales.…
From Orthomosaics to Raw UAV Imagery: Enhancing Palm Detection and Crown-Center Localization
Rongkun Zhu, Kangning Cui, Wei Tang +10
Accurate mapping of individual trees is essential for ecological monitoring and forest management. Orthomosaic imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is widely used, but stit…
Detection and Geographic Localization of Natural Objects in the Wild: A Case Study on Palms
Kangning Cui, Rongkun Zhu, Manqi Wang +9
Palms are ecologically and economically indicators of tropical forest health, biodiversity, and human impact that support local economies and global forest product supply chains. W…
Real-Time Localization and Bimodal Point Pattern Analysis of Palms Using UAV Imagery
Kangning Cui, Wei Tang, Rongkun Zhu +12
Understanding the spatial distribution of palms within tropical forests is essential for effective ecological monitoring, conservation strategies, and the sustainable integration o…