# Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Pixel Classification By Using Convolutional Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00774 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.00774/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Mar 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Efficient Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Pixel Classification with Vision Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.00296/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Plant phenology studies rely on long-term monitoring of life cycles of plants. High-resolution unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and near-surface technologies have been used for plant monitoring, demanding the creation of methods capable of locating and identifying plant species through time and space. However, this is a challenging task given the high volume of data, the constant data missing from temporal dataset, the heterogeneity of temporal profiles, the variety of plant visual patterns, and the unclear definition of individuals' boundaries in plant communities. In this letter, we propose a novel method, suitable for phenological monitoring, based on Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) to perform spatio-temporal vegetation pixel-classification on high resolution images. We conducted a systematic evaluation using high-resolution vegetation image datasets associated with the Brazilian Cerrado biome. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective, overcoming other spatio-temporal pixel-classification strategies.