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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Lynn Miller , Charlotte Pelletier , Geoffrey I. Webb

Earth observation (EO) foundation models have emerged as an effective approach to derive latent representations of the Earth system from various remote sensing sensors. These models produce embeddings that can be used as analysis-ready…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Julia Peters , Karin Mora , Miguel D. Mahecha , Chaonan Ji , David Montero , Clemens Mosig , Guido Kraemer

Unsupervised pre-training methods for large vision models have shown to enhance performance on downstream supervised tasks. Developing similar techniques for satellite imagery presents significant opportunities as unlabelled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yezhen Cong , Samar Khanna , Chenlin Meng , Patrick Liu , Erik Rozi , Yutong He , Marshall Burke , David B. Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (S4) has advanced remote sensing (RS) analysis by leveraging unlabeled data through pseudo-labeling and consistency learning. However, existing S4 studies often rely on small-scale datasets and models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liang Lv , Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Lefei Zhang

This work proposes a hybrid unsupervised and supervised learning method to pre-train models applied in Earth observation downstream tasks when only a handful of labels denoting very general semantic concepts are available. We combine a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Omar A. Castaño-Idarraga , Raul Ramos-Pollán , Freddie Kalaitzis

Multi-modal co-learning is emerging as an effective paradigm in machine learning, enabling models to collaboratively learn from different modalities to enhance single-modality predictions. Earth Observation (EO) represents a quintessential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Francisco Mena , Dino Ienco , Cassio F. Dantas , Roberto Interdonato , Andreas Dengel

We investigate the utility of in-domain self-supervised pre-training of vision models in the analysis of remote sensing imagery. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for remote sensing image classification due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Nikola Simidjievski , Dragi Kocev

In this paper we present a curated dataset from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission in a format suitable for machine learning research. Beginning from level 1 scientific products we have processed various instrumental…

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is crucial for Earth observation applications, but remains constrained by limited labelled training data. While self-supervised pretraining methods like Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 John Waithaka , Moise Busogi

Satellite-based remote sensing has revolutionised the way we address global challenges. Huge quantities of Earth Observation (EO) data are generated by satellite sensors daily, but processing these large datasets for use in ML pipelines is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Matthew J Allen , Francisco Dorr , Joseph Alejandro Gallego Mejia , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Anna Jungbluth , Freddie Kalaitzis , Raúl Ramos-Pollán

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope marks a significant step forward in radio astronomy, presenting new opportunities and challenges for data analysis. Traditional visual models pretrained on optical photography images may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Thomas Cecconello , Simone Riggi , Ugo Becciani , Fabio Vitello , Andrew M. Hopkins , Giuseppe Vizzari , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo

With the emergence of deep learning in the last years, new opportunities arose in Earth observation research. Nevertheless, they also brought with them new challenges. The data-hungry training processes of deep learning models demand large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Thorsten Hoeser , Claudia Kuenzer

Recently, the increasing deployment of LEO satellite systems has enabled various space analytics (e.g., crop and climate monitoring), which heavily relies on the advancements in deep learning (DL). However, the intermittent connectivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zheng Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Zhe Chen , Zihan Fang , Cong Wu , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Jun Luo

Over the last few years, massive amounts of satellite multispectral and hyperspectral images covering the Earth's surface have been made publicly available for scientific purpose, for example through the European Copernicus project.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Anthony Frion , Lucas Drumetz , Guillaume Tochon , Mauro Dalla Mura , Abdeldjalil Aïssa El Bey

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted much interest in remote sensing and earth observation due to its ability to learn task-agnostic representations without human annotation. While most of the existing SSL works in remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yi Wang , Conrad M Albrecht , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In defense-related remote sensing applications, such as vehicle detection on satellite imagery, supervised learning requires a huge number of labeled examples to reach operational performances. Such data are challenging to obtain as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jules BOURCIER , Thomas Floquet , Gohar Dashyan , Tugdual Ceillier , Karteek Alahari , Jocelyn Chanussot

Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most…

Carefully curated and annotated datasets are the foundation of machine learning, with particularly data-hungry deep neural networks forming the core of what is often called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Due to the massive success of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Michael Schmitt , Seyed Ali Ahmadi , Yonghao Xu , Gulsen Taskin , Ujjwal Verma , Francescopaolo Sica , Ronny Hansch

The application of deep neural networks to remote sensing imagery is often constrained by the lack of ground-truth annotations. Adressing this issue requires models that generalize efficiently from limited amounts of labeled data, allowing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jules Bourcier , Gohar Dashyan , Jocelyn Chanussot , Karteek Alahari

Since large number of high-quality remote sensing images are readily accessible, exploiting the corpus of images with less manual annotation draws increasing attention. Self-supervised models acquire general feature representations by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xinye Wanyan , Sachith Seneviratne , Shuchang Shen , Michael Kirley