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Recent advancements in foundation models have significantly impacted various fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, and multi-modal tasks. One area that stands to benefit greatly is Earth observation, where these…

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Change detection, as an important and widely applied technique in the field of remote sensing, aims to analyze changes in surface areas over time and has broad applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, urban development, and…

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Remote sensing observations are extensively used for analysis of environmental variables. These variables often exhibit spatial correlation, which has to be accounted for in the calibration models used in predictions, either by direct…

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Remote sensing (RS) change detection is essential for interpreting surface dynamics. Semantic change detection (SCD) further enables pixel-level understanding of multi-class transitions, yet remains sensitive to pseudo-changes induced by…

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This study introduces a framework for forecasting soil nitrogen content, leveraging multi-modal data, including multi-sensor remote sensing images and advanced machine learning methods. We integrate the Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey…

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Microclimate models are essential for linking climate to ecological processes, yet most physically based frameworks estimate temperature independently for each spatial unit and rely on simplified representations of lateral heat exchange. As…

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Remote sensing lightweight foundation models have achieved notable success in online perception within remote sensing. However, their capabilities are restricted to performing online inference solely based on their own observations and…

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Recent progress in self-supervision shows that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to impressive increases in generalisation for downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined as foundation…

Foundation Models (FMs) are increasingly integrated into remote sensing (RS) pipelines. These models include unimodal vision encoders and multimodal architectures. FMs are adapted to diverse perception tasks, such as image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Binger Chen , Tacettin Emre Bök , Behnood Rasti , Volker Markl , Begüm Demir

The rapid advancement of foundation models has revolutionized visual representation learning in a self-supervised manner. However, their application in remote sensing (RS) remains constrained by a fundamental gap: existing models…

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Remote sensing imagery suffers from clouds, haze, noise, resolution limits, and sensor heterogeneity. Existing restoration and fusion approaches train separate models per degradation type. In this work, we present Language-conditioned…

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Satellite image time series (SITS) provide continuous observations of the Earth's surface, making them essential for applications such as environmental management and disaster assessment. However, existing spatiotemporal foundation models…

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Accurate retrieval of vegetation biophysical variables from satellite imagery is crucial for ecosystem monitoring and agricultural management. In this work, we propose a physics-informed Transformer-VAE architecture to invert the PROSAIL…

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The accurate prediction of oceanographic variables is crucial for understanding climate change, managing marine resources, and optimizing maritime activities. Traditional ocean forecasting relies on numerical models; however, these…

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Remote sensing vision-language models commonly rely on pretrained visual encoders to convert images into semantic features before language-model reasoning. While effective for scene-level understanding, this pipeline may prematurely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiao Yang , Ronghao Fu , Zhiwen Lin , Zhuoran Duan , Jiashun Zhu , Jiasen Hu , Lang Sun , Weipeng Zhang , Jiaqi Liu , Xu Na , Haoran Liu , Weijie Zhang , Bo Yang

One of the primary objectives of satellite remote sensing is to capture the complex dynamics of the Earth environment, which encompasses tasks such as reconstructing continuous cloud-free image sequences, detecting land cover changes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuxiang Zhang , Shunlin Liang , Wenyuan Li , Han Ma , Jianglei Xu , Yichuan Ma , Jiangwei Xie , Wei Li , Mengmeng Zhang , Ran Tao , Xiang-Gen Xia

Accurate estimation of pasture biomass from agricultural imagery is critical for sustainable livestock management, yet existing methods are limited by the small, imbalanced, and sparsely annotated datasets typical of real world monitoring.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mridankan Mandal

Remote sensing change detection aims to localize and characterize scene changes between two time points and is central to applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. Meanwhile, visual autoregressive models (VARs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel

Analysis of spatial multivariate data, i.e., measurements at irregularly-spaced locations, is a challenging topic in visualization and statistics alike. Such data are integral to many domains, e.g., indicators of valuable minerals are…

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