Remote Sensing Benchmarks

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Remote sensing benchmarks provide shared datasets, splits, metrics, and protocols for testing satellite, aerial, SAR, hyperspectral, and LiDAR models on tasks such as land-cover mapping, change detection, geo-localization, and vision-language reasoning. They compare CNNs and transformers with foundation models using supervised, zero-shot, frozen-encoder, and fine-tuning evaluations, often with cross-region, cross-year, or cross-sensor splits. Results show that rankings can change across tasks and conditions: geographic and sensor shifts, fine details, temporal reasoning, and complex grounding expose weaknesses that clean in-distribution scores may hide. A central challenge is to make comparisons reproducible and realistic while measuring calibration, geometric accuracy, efficiency, robustness, and downstream utility rather than relying on a single aggregate score.

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  1. Satellite-derived bathymetry of Arabian Gulf ports under leakage-free validation: a multi-site benchmark of empirical, machine-learning and deep-learning models against 285,000 multibeam soundings, with an outlook for UAE waters

    Oct 24, 2026Muhammad Saeed, Fatema Al Hajri, Mohamed H. Alhosani +2Remote SensingRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy, P.O. Box 54477, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  2. Data-Driven Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing: A Survey

    Oct 22, 2026Yue Zhou, Shujun Zhao, Xue Yang +7Remote Sensing VLMsRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    School of GeoAI and Hindon STAI Institute, Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Southeast University, China +4

  3. OpenEarth-OVS44: A Multimodal Remote Sensing Dataset for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Oct 21, 2026Yimin Wei, Hongruixuan Chen, Hao Zheng +5Remote Sensing Image SegmentationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    The University of Tokyo · RIKEN AIP · East China Normal University +1

  4. TerraNostra-Bench: Benchmarking Spatial Downscaling and Temporal Rollout for Global 1-km Land-Use Reconstruction

    Oct 20, 2026Amirpasha Mozaffari, Marina Castaño, Stefano Materia +6Land Cover ClassificationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    Earth Science Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain · Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy · AI Institute, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain

  5. FloodVLM-Pix: Language-Guided Pixel-Level Flood Understanding

    Oct 16, 2026Chengyang Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Zhiyu Long +4Remote Sensing VLMsText-Guided Image Segmentation

    Tsinghua University · National Disaster Reduction Center

  6. Three LiDARs, Twenty-Five Datasets: Cross-Source Generalization in Tree-Species Recognition

    Oct 15, 2026Jae Joong Lee, Bedrich BenesTree Species ClassificationCross-Dataset Generalization

    Purdue University, Department of Computer Science 305 N University St, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

  7. Digital Typhoon Dataset V3: Benchmarking for Multi-spectral Extension and Analyzing Systematic Bias in Intensity Regression

    Oct 15, 2026Asanobu Kitamoto, Victor Le Louarn, Noelia Falczuk +2Remote Sensing BenchmarksRemote Sensing

    National Institute of Informatics, Japan · Typhoon Science and Technology Research Center, Yokohama National University, Japan · University of Artois, France +3

  8. A large-scale climate-aware satellite image dataset for domain adaptive land-cover semantic segmentation

    Oct 15, 2026Songlin Liu, Linwei Chen, Li Zhang +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationLand Cover Classification

    School of Remote Sensing Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 430079, Wuhan, Hubei, China · State Key Laboratory of Geo-information Engineering, 710054, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China +2

  9. The Gap Is in the Geometry: A Convergent Meta-Analysis of Multi-Facet Aerial and Remote Sensing Video Understanding

    Oct 13, 2026Georgios Angelidis, Aggelos Psiris, Maria Vakalopoulou +3Remote Sensing BenchmarksMultimodal Model Evaluation

    Harokopio University of Athens Athens, Greece · CentraleSupelec Paris, France · University of West Attica Athens, Greece

  10. Trust Before Autonomy: Rethinking Agentic Remote Sensing for Crisis Response

    Oct 13, 2026Georgios Angelidis, Aggelos Psiris, Spyridon Evangelatos +4Agent ReliabilityRemote Sensing

    Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece · Netcompany-Intrasoft S.A., Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Dimocritus University of Thrace, Kavala, Greece +1

  11. Deficit-Driven Stratified Acquisition for Building STRATA-S12: An Open SAR-Optical Corpus for Self-Supervised Learning

    Oct 13, 2026Christian Sanchez-Leon, Dongming Chen, Dongqi WangStratified SamplingTraining Data Curation

    Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

  12. Revisiting the Task of Building Damage Assessment by Satellite Imaging

    Oct 9, 2026Anthony Cioppa, Virgile Blua, Sébastien Piérard +2Building Damage AssessmentDisaster Damage Assessment

  13. Benchmarking Answer-Grounding Consistency in Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

    Oct 9, 2026Ping Guo, Zhiqi Huang, Xinran Li +3Remote Sensing VQAVLM Evaluation

    Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan · School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China +1

  14. MultiFly: A Real-World Multimodal Aerial Dataset with Annotation-Efficient Label Transfer and Cross-Modal Semantic Consistency

    Oct 7, 2026Markus Gross, Andreas Greiner, Taehyoung Kim +11Multimodal Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    Autonomous Aerial Systems, Fraunhofer Institute IVI · Computer Vision Group, Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) +2

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

    Oct 5, 2026Md Aminur Hossain, Omkumar Vaghasiya, Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsNeural Network Robustness

    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

  16. A PyTorch Library for Hyperspectral Image Models: Technical Report

    Sep 30, 2026Tanishq Rachamalla, Aryan Das, Srishti Kaushik +1Remote Sensing BenchmarksHyperspectral Image Classification

    Department of Information Technology Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh 521108, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 466114, India · Department of Computer and Information Sciences Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi 110068, India +1

  17. VesselBench-800K: A Large-scale Perception Benchmark for Multimodal Vessel Detection, Counting, and Density Estimation

    Sep 29, 2026Danfeng Hong, Chenyu Li, Jocelyn ChanussotObject CountingRemote Sensing

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, 38000 Grenoble, France · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK, Grenoble 38000, France

  18. PyroStack: A Multi-Band Spatio-Temporal Sub-Daily Dataset for Wildfires in the United States

    Sep 28, 2026Arya Kondur, Giosue Migliorini, Cameron Schmitt +14Wildfire ForecastingSpatiotemporal Forecasting

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA · Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA +6

  19. ReVA: A Scene-Centric Dataset Beyond Repetition for Remote Sensing Video Question Answering

    Sep 28, 2026Zhen Yao, Likai Wang, Yuming Yang +9Remote Sensing VQAVideo QA

    Lehigh University · University of Southern California · Qualcomm AI Research

  20. Temporal Modelling for Burn Scars on Sentinel-3

    Sep 28, 2026Luca Barco, Edoardo Arnaudo, Andrea Bragagnolo +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDisaster Damage Assessment

    Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy · Fondazione LINKS, Torino, Italy

  21. Decoding the Disaster: Multi-Task Geospatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models and Crowdsourced Imagery for Disaster Mapping

    Sep 28, 2026Wenping Yin, Fabian Desuer, Ziqi Liu +5Geospatial ReasoningCross-View Geo-Localization

    College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China · Professorship of Big Geospatial Data Management, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Munich, 85521, Bavaria, Germany · State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China +6

  22. A Free Knob: Decoupling Calibration and Predictive Skill in Threshold-Based Evaluation

    Sep 27, 2026Md Tanveer Hossain Munim, Bijoy Ahmed Saiem, Al-Amin Sany +1Post-Hoc CalibrationProbability Calibration

    Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) · Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

  23. PolyTopoBench: A Benchmark for Complex Vector Polygon Generation from Remote Sensing Imagery

    Sep 26, 2026Zeping Liu, Ni Lao, Weiwei Sun +5Remote Sensing Benchmarks

    The University of Texas at Austin · Amazon · University of Maryland +1

  24. USAI-Quant: A Quantitative Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Built Environments

    Sep 26, 2026Dongdong Wang, Qingqi Song, Yuzhou Chen +3VLM ReasoningRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    University of Florida

  25. GeoNLI - A Natural Language Interpreter for Satellite Imagery

    Sep 23, 2026Ashutosh Gandhe, Anupam Rawat, Geet Sethi +5Remote Sensing Visual GroundingRemote Sensing VQA

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  26. PBLH Estimation from Satellite Radiances via a Dual-Encoder Transformer

    Sep 23, 2026Lorenzo Innocenti, Luca Catalano, Edoardo Arnaudo +4TransformerRemote Sensing

    Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy · Fondazione LINKS, Torino, Italy · Institute of Integrated Methodologies for Earth Observation, National Research Council (IMIOT/CNR), Potenza, Italy +1

  27. A Unified Framework and Dataset for Oriented Object Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing

    Sep 23, 2026Zeyu Ding, Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Grounding

    School of Computer Science and Technology/School of Artificial Intelligence, the Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Engineering Center for Intelligent Sensing and Emergency IoT in Underground Space, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

  28. A comparative assessment of global building and settlement datasets across geographic and settlement contexts

    Sep 23, 2026Rufai Omowunmi Balogun, Caroline Margaux Gevaert, Capucine Riom +5Benchmark ConstructionBuilding Footprint Extraction

    The World Bank, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery · Center for Geospatial Analytics, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA · University of Twente, Enschede, Twente, The Netherlands +2

  29. SatUnreal: A High-Precision Synthetic Dataset for Satellite Stereo Matching via Unreal Engine

    Sep 23, 2026Han-Gyeol Kim, JaeWan Park, Junmin Park +1Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationSynthetic Data Generation

    TelePIX, South Korea

  30. A multi-temporal dataset for mapping burned areas in the Brazilian Cerrado using time series of remote sensing imagery

    Sep 20, 2026Alisson Cleiton de Oliveira, Thales Sehn KörtingRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division (DIOTG), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil