Multispecies deep learning using citizen science data produces more informative plant community models

P Brun, DN Karger, D Zurell, P Descombes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In the age of big data, scientific progress is fundamentally limited by our capacity to extract
critical information. Here, we map fine-grained spatiotemporal distributions for thousands of …

Torchspatial: A location encoding framework and benchmark for spatial representation learning

N Wu, Q Cao, Z Wang, Z Liu, Y Qi… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Spatial representation learning (SRL) aims at learning general-purpose neural network
representations from various types of spatial data (eg, points, polylines, polygons, networks …

A survey on convolutional neural networks and their performance limitations in image recognition tasks

G Rangel, JC Cuevas-Tello, J Nunez-Varela… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding image classification
performance, having been successfully applied in several real‐world applications. However …

Spatial implicit neural representations for global-scale species map**

E Cole, G Van Horn, C Lange… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Estimating the geographical range of a species from sparse observations is a challenging
and important geospatial prediction problem. Given a set of locations where a species has …

Satbird: a dataset for bird species distribution modeling using remote sensing and citizen science data

M Teng, A Elmustafa, B Akera… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, impacting ecosystem services necessary
to ensure food, water, and human health and well-being. Understanding the distribution of …

Overview of lifeclef 2022: an evaluation of machine-learning based species identification and species distribution prediction

A Joly, H Goëau, S Kahl, L Picek, T Lorieul… - … Conference of the Cross …, 2022 - Springer
Building accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of
species is essential for the sustainable development of humanity, as well as for biodiversity …

Geoplant: Spatial plant species prediction dataset

L Picek, C Botella, M Servajean, C Leblanc… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The difficulty of monitoring biodiversity at fine scales and over large areas limits ecological
knowledge and conservation efforts. To fill this gap, Species Distribution Models (SDMs) …

Overview of GeoLifeCLEF 2023: Species composition prediction with high spatial resolution at continental scale using remote sensing

C Botella, B Deneu, D Marcos, M Servajean… - CLEF 2023 Working …, 2023 - hal.science
Understanding the spatio-temporal distribution of species is a cornerstone of ecology and
conservation. By pairing species observations with geographic and environmental …

Ld-sdm: Language-driven hierarchical species distribution modeling

S Sastry, X **ng, A Dhakal, S Khanal, A Ahmad… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We focus on the problem of species distribution modeling using global-scale presence-only
data. Most previous studies have mapped the range of a given species using geographical …

Bird distribution modelling using remote sensing and citizen science data

M Teng, A Elmustafa, B Akera, H Larochelle… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Climate change is a major driver of biodiversity loss, changing the geographic range and
abundance of many species. However, there remain significant knowledge gaps about the …