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Foundation models are rapidly transforming Earth Observation data mining by enabling generalizable and scalable solutions for key tasks such as scene classification and semantic segmentation. While most efforts in the geospatial domain have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Man Duc Chuc

The increasing availability of geospatial foundation models has the potential to transform remote sensing applications such as land cover classification, environmental monitoring, and change detection. Despite promising benchmark results,…

The volume of unlabelled Earth observation (EO) data is huge, but many important applications lack labelled training data. However, EO data offers the unique opportunity to pair data from different modalities and sensors automatically based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Vishal Nedungadi , Ankit Kariryaa , Stefan Oehmcke , Serge Belongie , Christian Igel , Nico Lang

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

The immense volume of data generated by Earth observation (EO) satellites presents significant challenges in transmitting it to Earth over rate-limited satellite-to-ground communication links. This paper presents an efficient downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Van-Phuc Bui , Shashi Raj Pandey , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Petar Popovski

Deep learning (DL) models are gaining popularity in forest variable prediction using Earth Observation images. However, in practical forest inventories, reference datasets are often represented by plot- or stand-level measurements, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Shaojia Ge , Oleg Antropov , Tuomas Häme , Ronald E. McRoberts , Jukka Miettinen

The value of Earth observation foundation models for high-impact ecological applications remains insufficiently characterized. This study is one of the first to systematically evaluate the performance, limitations and practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Craig Mahlasi , Gciniwe S. Baloyi , Zaheed Gaffoor , Levente Klein , Anne Jones , Etienne Vos , Michal Muszynski , Geoffrey Dawson , Campbell Watson

Regularly updated and accurate land cover maps are essential for monitoring 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Multispectral satellite imagery provide high-quality and valuable information at global scale that can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hamed Alemohammad , Kevin Booth

Landslides cause severe damage to lives, infrastructure, and the environment, making accurate and timely mapping essential for disaster preparedness and response. However, conventional deep learning models often struggle when applied across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Wenwen Li , Sizhe Wang , Hyunho Lee , Chenyan Lu , Sujit Roy , Rahul Ramachandran , Chia-Yu Hsu

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

High resolution crop type maps are an important tool for improving food security, and remote sensing is increasingly used to create such maps in regions that possess ground truth labels for model training. However, these labels are absent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Stefania Di Tommaso , Sherrie Wang , David B. Lobell

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyobin Park , Minseok Seo , Dong-Geol Choi

Earth observation (EO) is crucial for monitoring environmental changes, responding to disasters, and managing natural resources. In this context, foundation models facilitate remote sensing image analysis to retrieve relevant geoinformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Francesc Marti-Escofet , Benedikt Blumenstiel , Linus Scheibenreif , Paolo Fraccaro , Konrad Schindler

Foundation Models (FMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance across domains by leveraging large-scale pretraining. In Earth Observation (EO), the availability of petabyte-scale satellite archives has recently enabled the development…

This paper presents Prithvi-EO-2.0, a new geospatial foundation model that offers significant improvements over its predecessor, Prithvi-EO-1.0. Trained on 4.2 million global time series samples from NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2…

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

The Landsat program offers over 50 years of globally consistent Earth imagery. However, the lack of benchmarks for this data constrains progress towards Landsat-based Geospatial Foundation Models (GFM). In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Isaac Corley , Lakshay Sharma , Ruth Crasto

The focus of this paper is using a convolutional machine learning model with a modified U-Net structure for creating land cover classification mapping based on satellite imagery. The aim of the research is to train and test convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Priit Ulmas , Innar Liiv

The application of deep learning algorithms to Earth observation (EO) in recent years has enabled substantial progress in fields that rely on remotely sensed data. However, given the data scale in EO, creating large datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Laura E. C. La Rosa , Dario A. B. Oliveira , Pedram Ghamisi

This work presents SSL4EO-S12 v1.1, a multimodal, multitemporal Earth Observation dataset designed for pretraining large-scale foundation models. Building on the success of SSL4EO-S12, this extension updates the previous version to fix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Benedikt Blumenstiel , Nassim Ait Ali Braham , Conrad M Albrecht , Stefano Maurogiovanni , Paolo Fraccaro