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Foundation models have advanced machine learning across various modalities, including images. Recently multiple teams trained foundation models specialized for remote sensing applications. This line of research is motivated by the distinct…

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We present Surf-NeRF, a modified implementation of the recently introduced Shadow Neural Radiance Field (S-NeRF) model. This method is able to synthesize novel views from a sparse set of satellite images of a scene, while accounting for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Federico Semeraro , Yi Zhang , Wenying Wu , Patrick Carroll

Satellite imagery has emerged as an important tool to analyse demographic, health, and development indicators. While various deep learning models have been built for these tasks, each is specific to a particular problem, with few standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Makkunda Sharma , Fan Yang , Duy-Nhat Vo , Esra Suel , Swapnil Mishra , Samir Bhatt , Oliver Fiala , William Rudgard , Seth Flaxman

In the emerging commercial space industry there is a drastic increase in access to low cost satellite imagery. The price for satellite images depends on the sensor quality and revisit rate. This work proposes to bridge the gap between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Saksham Jain , R Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

An increase in availability of Software Defined Radios (SDRs) has caused a dramatic shift in the threat landscape of legacy satellite systems, opening them up to easy spoofing attacks by low-budget adversaries. Physical-layer authentication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Cédric Solenthaler , Joshua Smailes , Martin Strohmeier

Advancements in technology and reduction in it's cost have led to a substantial growth in the quality & quantity of imagery captured by Earth Observation (EO) satellites. This has presented a challenge to the efficacy of the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Aidan Duggan , Bruno Andrade , Haithem Afli

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

While computer science has seen remarkable advancements in foundation models, which remain underexplored in geoscience. Addressing this gap, we introduce a workflow to develop geophysical foundation models, including data preparation, model…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Hanlin Sheng , Xinming Wu , Xu Si , Jintao Li , Sibo Zhang , Xudong Duan

In this paper, we propose OpenSatMap, a fine-grained, high-resolution satellite dataset for large-scale map construction. Map construction is one of the foundations of the transportation industry, such as navigation and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hongbo Zhao , Lue Fan , Yuntao Chen , Haochen Wang , yuran Yang , Xiaojuan Jin , Yixin Zhang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Foundation Vision Encoders have become essential for a wide range of dense vision tasks. However, their low-resolution spatial feature outputs necessitate feature upsampling to produce the high-resolution modalities required for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Paul Couairon , Loick Chambon , Louis Serrano , Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

Satellite communications can provide massive connections and seamless coverage, but they also face several challenges, such as rain attenuation, long propagation delays, and co-channel interference. To improve transmission efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-27 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Remote sensing of the Earth's surface water is critical in a wide range of environmental studies, from evaluating the societal impacts of seasonal droughts and floods to the large-scale implications of climate change. Consequently, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Joachim Moortgat , Ziwei Li , Michael Durand , Ian Howat , Bidhyananda Yadav , Chunli Dai

Forecasting the formation and development of clouds is a central element of modern weather forecasting systems. Incorrect clouds forecasts can lead to major uncertainty in the overall accuracy of weather forecasts due to their intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 A. H. Nielsen , A. Iosifidis , H. Karstoft

A flood of reliable seismic data will soon arrive. The migration to larger telescopes on the ground may free up 4-m class instruments for multi-site campaigns, and several forthcoming satellite missions promise to yield nearly uninterrupted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Travis S. Metcalfe

Image alignment and image restoration are classical computer vision tasks. However, there is still a lack of datasets that provide enough data to train and evaluate end-to-end deep learning models. Obtaining ground-truth data for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

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 2019-11-19 Qun Liu , Saikat Basu , Sangram Ganguly , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Robert DiBiano , Manohar Karki , Ramakrishna Nemani

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

The availability of curated large-scale training data is a crucial factor for the development of well-generalizing deep learning methods for the extraction of geoinformation from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery. While quite some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Michael Schmitt , Lloyd Haydn Hughes , Chunping Qiu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Existing NeRF models for satellite images suffer from slow speeds, mandatory solar information as input, and limitations in handling large satellite images. In response, we present SatensoRF, which significantly accelerates the entire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Tongtong Zhang , Yuanxiang Li

We present SatGeo-NeRF, a geometrically regularized NeRF for satellite imagery that mitigates overfitting-induced geometric artifacts observed in current state-of-the-art models using three model-agnostic regularizers. Gravity-Aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Valentin Wagner , Sebastian Bullinger , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen