Mining Field Data for Tree Species Recognition at Scale
<|reference_start|>Mining Field Data for Tree Species Recognition at Scale: Individual tree species labels are particularly hard to acquire due to the expert knowledge needed and the limitations of photointerpretation. Here, we present a methodology to automatically mine species labels from public forest inventory data, using available pretrained tree detection models. We identify tree instances in aerial imagery and match them with field data with close to zero human involvement. We conduct a series of experiments on the resulting dataset, and show a beneficial effect when adding noisy or even unlabeled data points, highlighting a strong potential for large-scale individual species mapping.<|reference_end|>
@article{gominski2024mining,
    title={Mining Field Data for Tree Species Recognition at Scale},
    author={Dimitri Gominski and Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo and Martin Brandt and
  Maurice Mugabowindekwe and Rasmus Fensholt},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15816},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.15816},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}