AIMC Topic: Forests

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Explainable few-shot learning workflow for detecting invasive and exotic tree species.

Scientific reports
Deep Learning methods are notorious for relying on extensive labeled datasets to train and assess their performance. This can cause difficulties in practical situations where models should be trained for new applications for which very little data is...

Exploring the spatiotemporal influence of climate on American avian migration with random forests.

Scientific reports
Birds have adapted to climatic and ecological cycles to inform their Spring and Fall migration timings, but anthropogenic global warming has affected these long-establish cycles. Understanding these dynamics is critical for conservation during a chan...

Monitoring temporal changes in large urban street trees using remote sensing and deep learning.

PloS one
In the rapidly changing dynamics of urbanization, urban forests offer numerous benefits to city dwellers. However, the information available on these resources is often outdated or non-existent, leading in part to inequitable access to these benefits...

Deforestation driven by illegal and informal gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon: a predictive land use analysis over the next 50 years.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The Amazon is recognized not only for its vast biodiversity and territorial extent but also for the significant mineral riches it harbors. This potential has intensified small-scale illegal and informal gold mining, a practice often employed without ...

Machine learning techniques for continuous genetic assignment of geographic origin of forest trees.

PloS one
Origin tracking is important to ensure use of the right seed source and trade with legally harvested timber. Additionally, it can help to reconstruct human-caused historical long-distance seed transfer and to spot mislabelling in forest field trials....

Remote sensing-based detection of brown spot needle blight: a comprehensive review, and future directions.

PeerJ
Pine forests are increasingly threatened by needle diseases, including Brown Spot Needle Blight (BSNB), caused by . BSNB leads to needle loss, reduced growth, significant tree mortality, and disruptions in global timber production. Due to its severit...

Modeling climate change impacts and predicting future vulnerability in the Mount Kenya forest ecosystem using remote sensing and machine learning.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The Mount Kenya forest ecosystem (MKFE), a crucial biodiversity hotspot and one of Kenya's key water towers, is increasingly threatened by climate change, putting its ecological integrity and vital ecosystem services at risk. Understanding the intera...

Modeling land use and land cover dynamics of Bale Mountains National Park using Google Earth Engine and cellular automata-artificial neural network (CA-ANN) model.

PloS one
This research aimed to assess the observed land use and land cover (LULC) changes of Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) from 1993 to 2023 and its future projections for the years (2033 and 2053). The study utilized multi-date Landsat imagery from 19...

Spatial and temporal classification and prediction of aspen probability in boreal forests using machine learning algorithms.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Mapping and classifying the probability of occurrence of Populus tremula L. (aspen) in boreal forests is a complex task for sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation. As a key broadleaved species in the taiga region, aspen supports ...

Forest fire susceptibility mapping using multi-criteria decision making and machine learning models in the Western Ghats of India.

Journal of environmental management
Forest fires have significantly increased over the last decade due to shifts in rainfall patterns, warmer summers, and long spells of dry weather events in the coastal regions. Assessment of susceptibility to forest fires has become an important mana...