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  1. FairRSFM: A Biome-Aware Benchmark and Debiasing Framework for Remote Sensing Foundation Models

    Oct 5, 2026Md Aminur Hossain, Omkumar Vaghasiya, Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi +2Remote SensingGeospatial Foundation Models

    Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India · Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India · Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

  2. Planetary Geospatial Foundation Models: A New Paradigm for Global Public Health

    Oct 5, 2026Arbaaz Muslim, Aviv Slobodkin, Katherine Wheeler-Martin +35Geospatial Foundation ModelsEpidemiological Models

    Google, Mountain View, CA, USA · Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA · Center for Child Health Services Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA +14

  3. Recoverable Geographic Location Information in Earth-Observation Embeddings

    Sep 24, 2026Peiwen Zhang, Kristie Hu, Jovana Knezevic +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsEarth Observation

    University of Waterloo · University of Cambridge · Aalto University

  4. Cross-Architecture Foundation-Model Distillation for Edge Flood Segmentation

    Sep 17, 2026Fabian Schmalstieg, Karsten Mueller, Wojciech SamekGeospatial Foundation ModelsSen1Floods11

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, 10587 Berlin, Germany

  5. From Foundation Embeddings to Cropland Maps: Label Efficiency, Temporal Transferability and Independent Human Validation

    Sep 15, 2026Mohammad Ammar Mughees, Giovanni Montefoschi, Zhongxin Chen +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsAgricultural Monitoring

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

  6. Geospatial Foundation Models Capture Health-Relevant Dimensions of Place Beyond Conventional Social Risk Indices

    Sep 10, 2026Nathaniel Hendrix, Carl Y. Zhang, Chris Heitzig +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsCities

    Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine 1016 16th St NW Ste 800 Washington, DC 20036 United States of America · Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford University Palo Alto, CA USA · Center for Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University Palo Alto, California, United States of America +1

  7. Infra-Bench CLS: A Global, Open-Source Benchmark for Critical Infrastructure Classification with Earth Observation Foundation Models

    Sep 8, 2026Justin Guthrie, Edward Oughton, Konrad Wessels +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsSafety-Critical Infrastructure

    Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States · Taylor Geospatial Institute, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

  8. Applying foundation model embeddings towards urban livability evaluation

    Sep 8, 2026Ayush Khot, Wen Zhou, Shaowen WangGeospatial Foundation ModelsUrban Environments

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science & Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

  9. Tree species mapping in Denmark: A comparison of spectral-temporal features with geospatial foundation model embeddings

    Sep 3, 2026Alkiviadis Koukos, Spyros Kondylatos, Thomas Nord-Larsen +3Forest BiomassGeospatial Foundation Models

    EO Centre of Excellence, DHI, Agern Alle 5, Hørsholm, 2970, Denmark · Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, Copenhagen, 1350, Denmark · ceometrics, Strandvejen 273C, Charlottenlund, 2920, Denmark

  10. Do Satellites See Commuters? A Critical Benchmark of Vision Foundation Models

    Sep 1, 2026Ashiq Shukoor Iqbal, Wilson Wongso, Flora D. SalimGeospatial Foundation ModelsOrigin Destination Flows

    The University of New South Wales · Sydney, NSW, Australia

  11. A Composition-Aware Pretraining Framework for Geospatial Foundation Models

    Aug 31, 2026Aryan Kashyap Naveen, Abhishek Srinivas, Pranav Moothedath +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsSatellite Imagery

    National Institute of Technology, Karnataka · Surathkal, Karnataka, India · Visa Inc +2

  12. Foundation Models Meet Agriculture: Challenges Beyond Pretraining

    Aug 31, 2026Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Marc Rußwurm +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsAgricultural Monitoring

    Artificial Intelligence and Plant Science Group Wageningen University and Research Wageningen, Netherlands · Institute of Digital Agriculture Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences Hangzhou, China · Machine Learning in Earth Observation Lab University of Bonn Bonn, Germany

  13. MoRAX: Mobility-based Representation Augmentation for Geospatial Foundation Models

    Aug 18, 2026Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Yulun Zhou +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsMobility

    The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China

  14. Evaluating AlphaEarth Foundations Embeddings for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping

    Aug 12, 2026Yuan Zhuang, Sanaa Hobeichi, Peng Shi +1Wildfire PredictionGeospatial Foundation Models

    1UNSW Sydney, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, New South Wales, Australia · 2ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australia · 3Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia +2

  15. GeoPhysAdapter: Scale-Matched Geophysical Adaptation for Cross-Domain Landslide Mapping with Vision Foundation Models

    Aug 10, 2026Zhihang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jinlin Wu +1LandslidesGeospatial Foundation Models

    Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 999077, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 999077, Hong Kong SAR, China · Urban Governance and Design Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511400, Guangdong, China +1

  16. Above-ground Biomass Estimation with Geospatial Foundation Models

    Aug 5, 2026Ghjulia Sialellia, Linus Scheibenreif, Jan Dirk Wegner +1BiomassGeospatial Foundation Models

    Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8049, Switzerland · ETH AI Center, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland · EcoVision Lab, Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland

  17. GEOID-Flood: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Benchmark Dataset for Flood Segmentation

    Aug 3, 2026Gaetano Chiriaco, Luca Barco, Andrea Bragagnolo +2Flood DetectionGeospatial Foundation Models

    Fondazione LINKS, Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 61, 10138 Torino, Italy · Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

  18. TerraNova: A Foundation Model for the Anthropocene

    Jul 31, 2026Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo TavoniGeospatial Foundation ModelsFoundation Model

    Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano · RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) · Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)

  19. Now We Know? A Systematic Comparison of TerraMind and THOR

    Jul 20, 2026Frederick Schindlegger, Kenzo Bounegta, Eva Gmelich Meijling +5Geospatial Foundation ModelsWireless Foundation Models

    University of Münster, Münster, Germany · 2ESA Φ-lab, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy · 3Rubicon, Paris, France +2

  20. Do Maps Still Matter for Machines: Revisiting the Role of Choropleth Maps in Foundation Model Spatial Understanding

    Jul 20, 2026Zhiwei Wei, Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu +5Geospatial Foundation ModelsGeospatial

    aSchool of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China · bHunan Key Laboratory of Geospatial Big Data Mining and Application, Changsha, China · cSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China +3

  21. The Emerging Paradigm of Geospatial Foundation Models: From Pre-Training to Agentic Reasoning

    Jul 13, 2026Shelley CazaresGeospatial Foundation ModelsWireless Foundation Models

    Google Public Sector, Washington DC 20001, USA

  22. Predicting Viticulture Potential through an Ensemble of U-Net and a Geospatial Foundation Model

    Jul 9, 2026Jorge Ignacio Perez, Hwaai Kang Kee, Lucas RassbachGeospatial Foundation ModelsU-Net

    Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

  23. Scalable and Trustworthy Earth Observation Foundation Models

    Jul 8, 2026Syed Usama Imtiaz, Mitra Nasr Azadani, Nasrin AlamdariGeospatial Foundation ModelsTrustworthy Earth Observation Decisions

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida State University

  24. Probing Geospatial SSL Representations with Environmental Signals

    Jul 6, 2026Rohita Mocharla, Vishal M. PatelGeospatial Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Representations

    Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory · Johns Hopkins University · Laurel, MD +1

  25. GeoSAM-Lite: A Lightweight Foundation Model for Onboard Remote Sensing Segmentation

    Jul 4, 2026Yongcong Wang, Jie Zhang, Rui Jiang +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China

  26. A harmonised dataset for Earth system foundation models

    Jul 3, 2026Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo TavoniGeospatial Foundation ModelsMultimodal Foundation Model

    1Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Milan, Italy · 2RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Milan, Italy · 3CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy

  27. Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models for Agriculture Applications

    Jun 29, 2026Zhuocheng Shang, Sanmay Das, Ahmed EldawyGeospatial Foundation ModelsPrecision Agriculture

    University of California, Riverside · Riverside, USA

  28. SVC-Probe: A Framework for Evaluating Perturbation Generalization in Spatial Foundation-Model Embeddings

    Jun 26, 2026Jake Y. Chen, Huu Phong Nguyen, Fuad Al Abir +1Single-Cell Perturbation PredictionGeospatial Foundation Models

    Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. · System Pharmacology and AI Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

  29. Domain-Guided Prompting of the Segment Anything Model for Seismic Interpretation: The Role of Attributes, Visualization, and Hybrid Prompts

    Jun 14, 2026Aniq Ahmad, Heather Bedle, Ahmad MustafaFull Waveform InversionFew-Shot Segmentation

    School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  30. Clay-CNN Hybrids: Leveraging Geospatial Foundation Models as Auxiliary Context for Landslide Detection

    Jun 12, 2026Huong Binh VuLandslidesGeospatial Foundation Models

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

  31. How do Self-Supervised Remote Sensing Vision Models Transfer to Downstream Tasks?

    Jun 11, 2026Julia Romero, Qin Lv, Morteza KarimzadehGeospatial Foundation ModelsVision Foundation Models

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO, USA

  32. Emerging Flexible Designs for Geospatial Multimodal Foundation Models

    Jun 10, 2026Philipe Dias, Waqwoya Abebe, Abhishek Potnis +4Geospatial Foundation ModelsMultimodal Foundation Model

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA

  33. Adapting Prithvi-EO for Fallow Detection for Food-Water Nexus: ViT-Adapter Necks and Parameter-Efficient Backbone tuning of Geospatial Foundation Model

    Jun 10, 2026Sk Muhammad Asif, Orhun AydinGeospatial Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Earth, Atmospheric and Geospatial Science Saint Louis University Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

  34. Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi for Inclusive Banking

    Jun 9, 2026Swati Sachan, Dale Fickett, Richard Buchinger +1Post-Quantum CryptographyDecentralized Finance

    AI FinTech Group, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK · University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA · Chain Crunch Labs based in Finsbury, London, UK +1

  35. GeoRoPE: Ground-Aware Rotary Adaptation for Remote Sensing Foundation Models

    Jun 8, 2026Yu Luo, Kun Hu, Mengwei He +7Geospatial Foundation ModelsRemote Sensing

    The University of Sydney · Edith Cowan University · Adelaide University +3

  36. Land cover and flood type govern the detection limits of satellite-based flood mapping across diverse global flood events

    Jun 5, 2026Venkatesh Kolluru, Rajat Shinde, Abdelhak Marouane +6Flood DetectionSen1Floods11

    Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA · Space and Earth Science Data Analysis, 7515 Mission Drive, Lanham, MD 20706 · NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, 35808 USA.

  37. Do Foundation Models See Biology? Evaluating Attention Coherence with Spatial Transcriptomics in Glioblastoma

    Jun 3, 2026Dilakshan Srikanthan, Amoon Jamzad, Paul Wilson +5Spatial TranscriptomicsPathology Foundation Models

    Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · Department of Surgery, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

  38. Spatial Representation Learning Beyond Pixels: Unifying Raster Data and Vector Semantics for Human-Centric Geospatial Foundation Models

    Jun 1, 2026Steffen Knoblauch, Hao Li, Gengchen Mai +3Geospatial Foundation ModelsTrustworthy Earth Observation Decisions

    Heidelberg University · National University of Singapore · University of Texas at Austin +3

  39. EarthShift: a benchmark for measuring robustness to real-world distribution shifts in Earth observation

    May 28, 2026Kelsey Doerksen, Hannah KernerGeospatial Foundation ModelsDistribution Shifts

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence Arizona State University

  40. FLORO: A Multimodal Geospatial Foundation Model for Ecological Remote Sensing Across Sensors and Scales

    May 27, 2026Jorge L. Rodriguez, Victor Angulo Morales, Areej Alwahas +6Geospatial Foundation ModelsRemote Sensing

    Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia · Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  41. SpatialBench: Is Your Spatial Foundation Model an All-Round Player?

    May 26, 2026Haosong Peng, Hao Li, Jiaqi Chen +10Geospatial Foundation ModelsFoundation Model

    1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2Nanyang Technological University · 3Northwestern Polytechnical University +2

  42. Mini-JEPA Foundation Model Fleet Enables Agentic Hydrologic Intelligence

    May 13, 2026Mashrekur RahmanGeospatial Foundation ModelsProbabilistic Basin-Scale Runoff Lstms

    Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College, 6025 Baker-Berry Library, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA

  43. NARA: Anchor-Conditioned Relation-Aware Contextualization of Heterogeneous Geoentities

    May 12, 2026Jina Kim, Gengchen Mai, Lingyi Zhao +2GeospatialGeospatial Foundation Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA · Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA · Novateur Research Solutions, Virginia, USA

  44. Slum Detection and Density Mapping with AlphaEarth Foundations: A Representation Learning Evaluation Across 12 Global Cities

    May 11, 2026Shuyang Hou, Ziqi Liu, Haoyue Jiao +7Geospatial Foundation ModelsUrban Environments

    State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  45. Low-Rank Adaptation of Geospatial Foundation Models for Wildfire Mapping Using Sentinel-2 Data

    May 6, 2026Ali Shibli, Andrea Nascetti, Yifang BanGeospatial Foundation ModelsWildfire Prediction

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

  46. Biological Spatial Priors Regularize Foundation Model Representations for Cross-Site MSI Generalization in Colorectal Cancer

    May 4, 2026Dasari Naga RajuDigital PathologyMultiple Instance Learning

  47. Geospatial foundation-model embeddings improve population estimation unevenly across space and scale

    May 3, 2026Wenbin Zhang, Eimear Cleary, Francisco Rowe +4Geospatial Foundation ModelsPopulations

    WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom · Geographic Data Science Lab, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

  48. Do Foundation Model Embeddings Improve Cross-Country Crop Yield Generalisation? A Leave-One-Country-Out Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Apr 27, 2026Yaw Osei AdjeiAgricultural PredictionGeospatial Foundation Models

    Department of Computer Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  49. Pretrain Where? Investigating How Pretraining Data Diversity Impacts Geospatial Foundation Model Performance

    Apr 22, 2026Amandeep Kaur, Mirali Purohit, Gedeon Muhawenayo +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsPretraining

    1Arizona State University · University of Colorado Boulder

  50. Structure-Semantic Decoupled Modulation of Global Geospatial Embeddings for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Mapping

    Apr 21, 2026Jienan Lyu, Miao Yang, Jinchen Cai +4Geospatial Foundation ModelsSemantic Gap

    Sun Yat-Sen University · Tsinghua University

  51. Cryo-Bench: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Cryosphere Mapping

    Mar 2, 2026Saurabh Kaushik, Lalit Maurya, Beth Tellman +4Geospatial Foundation ModelsTrustworthy Earth Observation Decisions

    Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin–Madison USA · Portsmouth AI and Data Science Centre (PAIDS), School of Computing, University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, UK · ESA, ESRIN, 𝜑-lab, Frascati Italy

  52. No One Knows the State of the Art in Geospatial Foundation Models

    Date pendingIsaac Corley, Nils Lehmann, Caleb Robinson +6Geospatial Foundation ModelsFoundation Model

    Taylor Geospatial · Technical University of Munich · Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab +6

  53. SPECTRA: Band-Routed Embedding and Stage-Wise LoRA for Cross-Sensor Fine-Tuning of Geospatial Foundation Models

    Date pendingXingyan Li, Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega, Jie Gong +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland, USA · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, USA