Deep Learning for Satellite Image Time Series Analysis: A Review

Understand

Earth observation (EO) satellite missions have been providing detailed images about the state of the Earth and its land cover for over 50 years.

• Long term missions, such as NASA's Landsat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, and more recently, the ESA's Sentinel missions, record images of the entire world every few days.
• Although single images provide point-in-time data, repeated images of the same area, or satellite image time series (SITS) provide information about the changing state of vegetation and land use.
• These SITS are useful for modeling dynamic processes and seasonal changes such as plant phenology.