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Nowadays the use of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is spreading in the field of Remote Sensing, with applications ranging from detection and classification of land use and monitoring to the prediction of many natural or anthropic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo

In real-time and high-resolution Earth observation imagery, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites capture images that are subsequently transmitted to ground to create an updated map of an area of interest. Such maps provide valuable information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Marc M. Gost , Marco Moretti , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Vázquez , Petar Popovski , Beatriz Soret

We aim to develop a robust yet flexible visual foundation model for Earth observation. It should possess strong capabilities in recognizing and localizing diverse visual targets while providing compatibility with various input-output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Chuanyi Zhang , Yijun Wang , Ziyun Chen , Wei Xu , Shimin Di , Yuhui Zheng

Self-supervised pretraining on large-scale satellite data has raised great interest in building Earth observation (EO) foundation models. However, many important resources beyond pure satellite imagery, such as land-cover-land-use products…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yi Wang , Conrad M Albrecht , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Modern Earth observation (EO) increasingly leverages deep learning to harness the scale and diversity of satellite imagery across sensors and regions. While recent foundation models have demonstrated promising generalization across EO…

This work presents SeasoNet, a new large-scale multi-label land cover and land use scene understanding dataset. It includes $1\,759\,830$ images from Sentinel-2 tiles, with 12 spectral bands and patch sizes of up to $ 120 \ \mathrm{px}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Dominik Koßmann , Viktor Brack , Thorsten Wilhelm

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…

Earth observation data presents a unique challenge: it is spatial like images, sequential like video or text, and highly multimodal. We present OlmoEarth: a multimodal, spatio-temporal foundation model that employs a novel self-supervised…

Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Saikat Basu , Sangram Ganguly , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Robert DiBiano , Manohar Karki , Ramakrishna Nemani

Earth Observation (EO) systems are crucial for cartography, disaster surveillance, and resource administration. Nonetheless, they encounter considerable obstacles in the processing and transmission of extensive data, especially in…

In deep learning research, self-supervised learning (SSL) has received great attention triggering interest within both the computer vision and remote sensing communities. While there has been a big success in computer vision, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yi Wang , Conrad M Albrecht , Nassim Ait Ali Braham , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Remote sensing images are useful for a wide variety of planet monitoring applications, from tracking deforestation to tackling illegal fishing. The Earth is extremely diverse -- the amount of potential tasks in remote sensing images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Favyen Bastani , Piper Wolters , Ritwik Gupta , Joe Ferdinando , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Deep learning methods have significantly advanced the development of intelligent rinterpretation in remote sensing (RS), with foundational model research based on large-scale pre-training paradigms rapidly reshaping various domains of Earth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhiwei Yi , Xin Cheng , Jingyu Ma , Ruifei Zhu , Junwei Tian , Yuanxiu Zhou , Xinge Zhao , Hongzhe Li

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) provides dense spectral information for the Earth's surface, enabling material-level understanding of land cover and ecosystem dynamics. Despite recent progress in hyperspectral self-supervised learning (SSL),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Haozhe Si , Yuxuan Wan , Yuqing Wang , Minh Do , Han Zhao

Satellite image time series (SITS) segmentation is crucial for many applications like environmental monitoring, land cover mapping and agricultural crop type classification. However, training models for SITS segmentation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jayanth Shenoy , Xingjian Davis Zhang , Shlok Mehrotra , Bill Tao , Rem Yang , Han Zhao , Deepak Vasisht

In the field of Earth Observation (EO), Continual Learning (CL) algorithms have been proposed to deal with large datasets by decomposing them into several subsets and processing them incrementally. The majority of these algorithms assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Valerio Marsocci , Simone Scardapane

Hyperspectral Imaging, employed in satellites for space remote sensing, like HYPSO-1, faces constraints due to few labeled data sets, affecting the training of AI models demanding these ground-truth annotations. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jon A. Justo , Joseph Garrett , Dennis D. Langer , Marie B. Henriksen , Radu T. Ionescu , Tor A. Johansen

The increasing frequency and severity of climate related disasters have intensified the need for real time monitoring, early warning, and informed decision-making. Earth Observation (EO), powered by satellite data and Machine Learning (ML),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Stella Girtsou , Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Charalambos Kontoes

A key challenge for much of the machine learning work on remote sensing and earth observation data is the difficulty in acquiring large amounts of accurately labeled data. This is particularly true for semantic segmentation tasks, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jing Wu , David Pichler , Daniel Marley , David Wilson , Naira Hovakimyan , Jennifer Hobbs

Recently, large vision-language models (LVLMs) unleash powerful analysis capabilities for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Earth observation images in the data center. However, fast satellite motion, brief satellite-ground station (GS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuxin Zhang , Jiahao Yang , Zhe Chen , Wenjun Zhu , Jin Zhao , Yue Gao