AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery

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Authors: Suraj Prasai, Kangning Cui, Ry Zhu, Sarra Alqahtani, Ying Zhang, V. Paúl Pauca, Miles R. Silman, Fan Yang
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Abstract

Forest imagery analysis often involves multiple tightly coupled vision tasks, which must be performed under substantial variation in geographic regions, sensors, and acquisition conditions. However, practitioners often lack a unified tool that is geospatial-native, cloud-optimized, and ML-integrated for end-to-end workflows spanning annotation, prediction, visualization, and downstream analysis at scale. We present AwakeForest, an interactive end-to-end platform designed for large-scale forest imagery that integrates model-assisted inference, automatic annotation, and human-in-the-loop refinement within a single workflow. Our platform supports plug-and-play integration of pretrained models and enables scalable interaction with forest imagery ranging from standard aerial scenes to large orthomosaics that can span several gigabytes to hundreds of gigabytes. AwakeForest produces analysis-ready outputs that can be directly used for downstream analysis and to support iterative model and annotation updates on new scenes. We demonstrate the system on the PALMS dataset and illustrate how AwakeForest supports an end-to-end workflow for practical forest management and analysis.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Remote Sensing in Agriculture Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Publisher
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization
Pages
8487–8491
Publication date
1 September 2026