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When we are primarily interested in solving several problems jointly with a given prescribed high performance accuracy for each target application, then Foundation Models should for most cases be used rather than problem-specific models. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Nikolaos Dionelis , Casper Fibaek , Luke Camilleri , Andreas Luyts , Jente Bosmans , Bertrand Le Saux

We present TerraMind, the first any-to-any generative, multimodal foundation model for Earth observation (EO). Unlike other multimodal models, TerraMind is pretrained on dual-scale representations combining both token-level and pixel-level…

The diversity and complementarity of sensors available for Earth Observations (EO) calls for developing bespoke self-supervised multimodal learning approaches. However, current multimodal EO datasets and models typically focus on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Guillaume Astruc , Nicolas Gonthier , Clement Mallet , Loic Landrieu

Remote Sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc. While artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Junjue Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Dacheng Tao , Shijian Lu , Naoto Yokoya

Environmental monitoring and management systems in most cases deal with models and spatial analytics that involve the integration of in-situ and remote Geosensor observations. In-situ sensor observations and those gathered by remote sensors…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Maduako N. Ikechukwu , Francis I. Okeke

The synergistic combination of deep learning models and Earth observation promises significant advances to support the sustainable development goals (SDGs). New developments and a plethora of applications are already changing the way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Claudio Persello , Jan Dirk Wegner , Ronny Hänsch , Devis Tuia , Pedram Ghamisi , Mila Koeva , Gustau Camps-Valls

Understanding the earth's climate system and how it might be changing is a preeminent scientific challenge. Global climate models are used to simulate past, present, and future climates, and experiments are executed continuously on an array…

Over the past decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of available Earth Observation (EO) data. The unprecedented coverage of the Earth's surface and atmosphere by satellite imagery has resulted in large volumes of data that must…

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

Land cover classification and change detection are two important applications of remote sensing and Earth observation (EO) that have benefited greatly from the advances of deep learning. Convolutional and transformer-based U-net models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Martin Willbo , Aleksis Pirinen , John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Olof Mogren , Mikael Nilsson

With the extremely rapid advances in remote sensing (RS) technology, a great quantity of Earth observation (EO) data featuring considerable and complicated heterogeneity is readily available nowadays, which renders researchers an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jiaxin Li , Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Jing Yao , Ke Zheng , Bing Zhang , Jocelyn Chanussot

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 increasing availability of Earth Observation data could transform the use and governance of African rural landscapes, with major implications for the livelihoods and wellbeing of people living in those landscapes. Recent years have seen…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Rose Pritchard , Wilhelm Kiwango , Andy Challinor

Earth Observation (EO) mining aims at supporting efficient access and exploration of petabyte-scale space- and airborne remote sensing archives that are currently expanding at rates of terabytes per day. A significant challenge is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Luigi Mascolo , Marco Quartulli , Pietro Guccione , Giovanni Nico , Igor G. Olaizola

High-quality Earth Observation (EO) imagery is essential for accurate analysis and informed decision making across sectors. However, data scarcity caused by atmospheric conditions, seasonal variations, and limited geographical coverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tiago Sousa , Benoît Ries , Nicolas Guelfi

Earth Observation (EO) provides critical planetary data for environmental monitoring, disaster management, climate science, and other scientific domains. Here we ask: Are AI systems ready for reliable Earth Observation? We introduce…

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 growing availability of high-quality Earth Observation (EO) data enables accurate global land cover and crop type monitoring. However, the volume and heterogeneity of these datasets pose major processing and annotation challenges. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Anatol Garioud , Sébastien Giordano , Nicolas David , Nicolas Gonthier

Recent advances in Earth Observation have focused on large-scale foundation models. However, these models are computationally expensive, limiting their accessibility and reuse for downstream tasks. In this work, we investigate compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mohanad Albughdadi

This paper reviews the most important information fusion data-driven algorithms based on Machine Learning (ML) techniques for problems in Earth observation. Nowadays we observe and model the Earth with a wealth of observations, from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 S. Salcedo-Sanz , P. Ghamisi , M. Piles , M. Werner , L. Cuadra , A. Moreno-Martínez , E. Izquierdo-Verdiguier , J. Muñoz-Marí , Amirhosein Mosavi , G. Camps-Valls