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The proliferation of low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks leads to the generation of vast volumes of remote sensing data which is traditionally transferred to the ground server for centralized processing, raising privacy and bandwidth…

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A significant amount of remotely sensed data is generated daily by many Earth observation (EO) spaceborne and airborne sensors over different countries of our planet. Different applications use those data, such as natural hazard monitoring,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Francesco Mauro , Giulia Ciabatti , Dario Spiller , Bertrand Le Saux , Paolo Gamba , Silvia Ullo

Low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites have been prosperously deployed for various Earth observation missions due to its capability of collecting a large amount of image or sensor data. However, traditionally, the data training process is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Chih-Yu Chen , Li-Hsiang Shen , Kai-Ten Feng , Lie-Liang Yang , Jen-Ming Wu

Earth observation (EO) missions produce petabytes of multispectral imagery, increasingly analyzed using large Geospatial Foundation Models (GeoFMs). Alongside end-to-end adaptation, workflows make growing use of intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luis Gilch , Isabelle Wittmann , Maximilian Nitsche , Johannes Jakubik , Arne Ewald , Thomas Brunschwiler

We present AiTLAS: Benchmark Arena -- an open-source benchmark suite for evaluating state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for image classification in Earth Observation (EO). To this end, we present a comprehensive comparative analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Dragi Kocev , Nikola Simidjievski

Satellite missions and Earth Observation (EO) systems represent fundamental assets for environmental monitoring and the timely identification of catastrophic events, long-term monitoring of both natural resources and human-made assets, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Luca Colomba , Paolo Garza

Earth Observation (EO) analysis is inherently interactive: resolving uncertainty often requires expanding the region of interest, retrieving historical observations, and switching across sensors such as optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sai Ma , Zhuang Li , Sichao Li , Xinyue Xu , Ruibiao Zhu , Tony Boston , John A. Taylor

The advancement of remote sensing, including satellite systems, facilitates the continuous acquisition of remote sensing imagery globally, introducing novel challenges for achieving open-world tasks. Deployed models need to continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiang Xiang , Zhuo Xu , Yao Deng , Qinhao Zhou , Yifan Liang , Ke Chen , Qingfang Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Xilin Chen , Wen Gao

In this work, we apply self-supervised learning with instance differentiation to learn a robust, multi-purpose representation for image analysis of resolved extragalactic continuum images. We train a multi-use model which compresses our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Inigo V. Slijepcevic , Anna M. M. Scaife , Mike Walmsley , Micah Bowles , O. Ivy Wong , Stanislav S. Shabala , Sarah V. White

Earth Observation (EO) has traditionally involved the transmission of a large volume of raw data to map the Earth surface. This results in congestion to the satellite network and delays in the availability of the results, invalidating the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Antonio M. Mercado-Martínez , Beatriz Soret , Antonio Jurado-Navas

Satellite Earth-observation (EO) time series in the optical and microwave ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum are often irregular due to orbital patterns and cloud obstruction. Compositing addresses these issues but loses information…

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…

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are emerging as key components of 6G networks, with many already deployed to support large-scale Earth observation and sensing related tasks. Federated Learning (FL) presents a promising paradigm for…

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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

We introduce the S-EO dataset: a large-scale, high-resolution dataset, designed to advance geometry-aware shadow detection. Collected from diverse public-domain sources, including challenge datasets and government providers such as USGS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Elías Masquil , Roger Marí , Thibaud Ehret , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Pablo Musé , Gabriele Facciolo

Earth observation (EO) data features diverse sensing platforms with varying spectral bands, spatial resolutions, and sensing modalities. While most prior work has constrained inputs to fixed sensors, a new class of any-sensor foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Leonard Waldmann , Ando Shah , Yi Wang , Nils Lehmann , Adam J. Stewart , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Stefan Bauer , John Chuang

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

Agile Earth Observation Satellites (AEOSs) constellations offer unprecedented flexibility for monitoring the Earth's surface, but their scheduling remains challenging under large-scale scenarios, dynamic environments, and stringent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Luting Wang , Yinghao Xiang , Hongliang Huang , Dongjun Li , Chen Gao , Si Liu

With the exacerbation of the biodiversity and climate crises, macroecological pursuits such as global biodiversity mapping become more urgent. Remote sensing offers a wealth of Earth observation data for ecological studies, but the scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Elena Plekhanova , Damien Robert , Johannes Dollinger , Emilia Arens , Philipp Brun , Jan Dirk Wegner , Niklaus Zimmermann

Vision foundation models have attracted significant attention for their ability to leverage large-scale unlabeled visual data. This advantage is particularly important in remote sensing, where data acquisition is costly and annotation often…

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