Forest Monitoring and Change Detection using Remote Sensing Data

To develop a system that is able to quantitatively monitor forests of Pakistan by deploying a small low-cost UAV to acquire temporal images and possibly fuse it with available satellite imagery to enable thorough assessments of local forest conditions e.g., degradation and deforestation caused by theft, urbanization or natural factors such as arid climate, heavy dependence on irrigation water, etc. by employing state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.