arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-07
EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping
Innocent Onyenonachi, Peter J. Lawerance, Nadia Kanwal
High-resolution RGB imagery acquired from low-altitude UAV surveys was processed through a modular pipeline incorporating transformer-based semantic segmentation, connected-component vegetation extraction, fine-grained species classification using a ConvNeXt architecture, and gri…