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This paper presents BigEarthNet that is a large-scale Sentinel-2 multispectral image dataset with a new class nomenclature to advance deep learning (DL) studies in remote sensing (RS). BigEarthNet is made up of 590,326 image patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Gencer Sumbul , Jian Kang , Tristan Kreuziger , Filipe Marcelino , Hugo Costa , Pedro Benevides , Mario Caetano , Begüm Demir

Surficial geologic (SG) maps are essential for understanding surface processes and supporting infrastructure planning, but current workflows are labor-intensive and difficult to scale. We introduce EarthScape, an AI-ready multimodal dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Matthew Massey , Nusrat Munia , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Understanding the complex urban infrastructure with centimeter-level accuracy is essential for many applications from autonomous driving to mapping, infrastructure monitoring, and urban management. Aerial images provide valuable information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Seyed Majid Azimi , Corentin Henry , Lars Sommer , Arne Schumann , Eleonora Vig

Land cover mapping is essential to monitoring the environment and understanding the effects of human activities on it. The automatic approaches to land cover mapping (i.e., image segmentation) mostly used traditional machine learning that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Sanja Šćepanović , Oleg Antropov , Pekka Laurila , Yrjö Rauste , Vladimir Ignatenko , Jaan Praks

Synthetic datasets, recognized for their cost effectiveness, play a pivotal role in advancing computer vision tasks and techniques. However, when it comes to remote sensing image processing, the creation of synthetic datasets becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jian Song , Hongruixuan Chen , Naoto Yokoya

The rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offers new opportunities for complex scientific challenges, yet their application in earth science-especially at the graduate level-remains underexplored due to a lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiangyu Zhao , Wanghan Xu , Bo Liu , Yuhao Zhou , Fenghua Ling , Ben Fei , Xiaoyu Yue , Lei Bai , Wenlong Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

Agricultural landscapes are quite complex, especially in the Global South where fields are smaller, and agricultural practices are more varied. In this paper we report on our progress in digitizing the agricultural landscape (natural and…

Land-cover mapping is one of the vital applications in Earth observation, aiming at classifying each pixel's land-cover type of remote-sensing images. As natural and human activities change the landscape, the land-cover map needs to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhuohong Li , Fangxiao Lu , Jiaqi Zou , Lei Hu , Hongyan Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated effective perception and reasoning capabilities on general-domain tasks, leading to growing interest in their application to Earth observation. However, a systematic benchmark for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ronghao Fu , Haoran Liu , Weijie Zhang , Zhiwen Lin , Xiao Yang , Peng Zhang , Bo Yang

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

The agricultural field is the natural unit at which crops are planted, managed, regulated, and reported, yet most global remote-sensing products for agriculture are only available at the pixel level. While some high-quality field-level data…

Earth observation is a fundamental tool for monitoring the evolution of land use in specific areas of interest. Observing and precisely defining change, in this context, requires both time-series data and pixel-wise segmentations. To that…

This paper presents EarthView, a comprehensive dataset specifically designed for self-supervision on remote sensing data, intended to enhance deep learning applications on Earth monitoring tasks. The dataset spans 15 tera pixels of global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Diego Velazquez , Pau Rodriguez López , Sergio Alonso , Josep M. Gonfaus , Jordi Gonzalez , Gerardo Richarte , Javier Marin , Yoshua Bengio , Alexandre Lacoste

Global tree species mapping using remote sensing data is vital for biodiversity monitoring, forest management, and ecological research. However, progress in this field has been constrained by the scarcity of large-scale, labeled datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yang Mu , Zhitong Xiong , Yi Wang , Muhammad Shahzad , Franz Essl , Holger Kreft , Mark van Kleunen , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Building-level exposure data are critical to natural hazard risk modeling, yet most global inventories describe where buildings are located rather than what they are made of. Roof material is a critical but poorly documented attribute for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Benjamin Tarver , Noelle Law , Sasha Getz , Yuki Miura

Access to labeled reference data is one of the grand challenges in supervised machine learning endeavors. This is especially true for an automated analysis of remote sensing images on a global scale, which enables us to address global…

Land cover mapping is essential for monitoring global environmental change and managing natural resources. Unfortunately, traditional classification models are plagued by limited training data available in existing land cover products and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Rahul Ghosh , Xiaowei Jia , Vipin Kumar

Automated textual description of remote sensing images is crucial for unlocking their full potential in diverse applications, from environmental monitoring to urban planning and disaster management. However, existing studies in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kaiyu Li , Zixuan Jiang , Xiangyong Cao , Jiayu Wang , Yuchen Xiao , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

Satellite imagery and maps, as two fundamental data modalities in remote sensing, offer direct observations of the Earth's surface and human-interpretable geographic abstractions, respectively. The task of bidirectional translation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanfeng Gu

European satellite missions Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide at highspatial resolution and high revisit time, respectively, radar and optical imagesthat support a wide range of Earth surface monitoring tasks such as LandUse/Land…