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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…
PalmProbNet: A Probabilistic Approach to Understanding Palm Distributions in Ecuadorian Tropical Forest via Transfer Learning
Kangning Cui, Zishan Shao, Gregory Larsen +8
Palms play an outsized role in tropical forests and are important resources for humans and wildlife. A central question in tropical ecosystems is understanding palm distribution an…