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Prior studies on Remote Sensing Foundation Model (RSFM) reveal immense potential towards a generic model for Earth Observation. Nevertheless, these works primarily focus on a single modality without temporal and geo-context modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xin Guo , Jiangwei Lao , Bo Dang , Yingying Zhang , Lei Yu , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Ziyuan Huang , Kang Wu , Dingxiang Hu , Huimei He , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yansheng Li

Earth observation (EO) is a prime instrument for monitoring land and ocean processes, studying the dynamics at work, and taking the pulse of our planet. This article gives a bird's eye view of the essential scientific tools and approaches…

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly intensified research in the geoscience and remote sensing (RS) field. AI algorithms, especially deep learning-based ones, have been developed and applied widely to RS data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yonghao Xu , Tao Bai , Weikang Yu , Shizhen Chang , Peter M. Atkinson , Pedram Ghamisi

Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most…

Foundation models (FMs) for the Earth system learn statistical relationships between physical variables across massive datasets to enable versatile downstream applications through finetuning, separating them from task-specific weather…

The intelligent interpretation of buildings plays a significant role in urban planning and management, macroeconomic analysis, population dynamics, etc. Remote sensing image building interpretation primarily encompasses building extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mingze Wang , Lili Su , Cilin Yan , Sheng Xu , Pengcheng Yuan , Xiaolong Jiang , Baochang Zhang

Recent progress in self-supervision has shown that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to substantial increases in generalization to downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined foundation…

Foundation models constitute a significant advancement in computer vision: after a single, albeit costly, training phase, they can address a wide array of tasks. In the field of Earth observation, over 75 remote sensing vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Pierre Adorni , Minh-Tan Pham , Stéphane May , Sébastien Lefèvre

In the realm of geospatial analysis, the diversity of remote sensors, encompassing both optical and microwave technologies, offers a wealth of distinct observational capabilities. Recognizing this, we present msGFM, a multisensor geospatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Boran Han , Shuai Zhang , Xingjian Shi , Markus Reichstein

Foundation models have the potential to transform the landscape of remote sensing (RS) data analysis by enabling large computer vision models to be pre-trained on vast amounts of remote sensing data. These models can then be fine-tuned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Caleb S. Spradlin , Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega , Jian Li , Mark L. Carroll , Jie Gong , Paul M. Montesano

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

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

Recently, large models, or foundation models, have exhibited remarkable performance, profoundly impacting research paradigms in diverse domains. Foundation models, trained on extensive and diverse datasets, provide exceptional…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Qi Liu , Jianwei Ma

We explore adapting foundation models (FMs) from the computer vision domain to geoscience. FMs, large neural networks trained on massive datasets, excel in diverse tasks with remarkable adaptability and generality. However, geoscience faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Zhixiang Guo , Xinming Wu , Luming Liang , Hanlin Sheng , Nuo Chen , Zhengfa Bi

Deep learning has taken by storm all fields involved in data analysis, including remote sensing for Earth observation. However, despite significant advances in terms of performance, its lack of explainability and interpretability, inherent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gulsen Taskin , Erchan Aptoula , Alp Ertürk

The multi-modal remote sensing foundation model (MM-RSFM) has significantly advanced various Earth observation tasks, such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and natural disaster management. However, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingying Zhang , Lixiang Ru , Kang Wu , Lei Yu , Lei Liang , Yansheng Li , Jingdong Chen

Forests are vital to ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and essential services, but are rapidly changing due to land use and climate change. Understanding and mitigating negative effects requires parsing data on forests at global scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Arthur Ouaknine , Ioannis Papoutsis , David Rolnick

Deep learning-based methods have been widely researched in the areas of language and vision, demonstrating their capacity to understand long sequences of data and their usefulness in numerous helio-physics applications. Foundation models…

While the pretraining of Foundation Models (FMs) for remote sensing (RS) imagery is on the rise, models remain restricted to a few hundred million parameters. Scaling models to billions of parameters has been shown to yield unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Philipe Dias , Aristeidis Tsaris , Jordan Bowman , Abhishek Potnis , Jacob Arndt , H. Lexie Yang , Dalton Lunga

Remote sensing scene classification has experienced a paradigmatic transformation from traditional handcrafted feature methods to sophisticated artificial intelligence systems that now form the backbone of modern Earth observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qionghao Huang , Can Hu