Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

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Remote sensing image segmentation assigns classes or object boundaries to pixels in satellite and aerial images, supporting tasks such as land-cover mapping, flood and wildfire monitoring, and building or road extraction. Common approaches include U-Net-style convolutional networks, transformers and state-space models, and fusion of optical, SAR, elevation, or time-series data; newer work also adapts geospatial foundation and vision-language models. Benchmarks such as ISPRS Vaihingen and Potsdam, LoveDA, OpenEarthMap, and Sen1Floods11 test accuracy across varied sensors, regions, and applications. A central challenge is reliable transfer under geographic, seasonal, and sensor shifts, while preserving fine boundaries and balancing annotation needs, computational cost, and performance on rare classes.

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  1. Evaluating Semantic and Spatial Guidance for Foundation Model Segmentation of Small-Scale PV in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Aug 11, 2026Roni Blushtein-Livnon, Tal Svoray, Osher Rafaeli +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics and Urban Planning Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel · Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel · Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal +1

  2. GeoSeg-OV: Bridging Geospatial Gaps with Structural Guidance for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Segmentation

    Aug 11, 2026Ruizhong Liu, Tingzhang Luo, Zaiyan Zhang +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

    School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China · Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, Guangdong, China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +3

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

    Aug 10, 2026Zhihang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jinlin Wu +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    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

  4. Contrastive Mask Fidelity: Reference-Free Auditing of Ground-Truth Masks in Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 10, 2026Shuaishuai Cao, Shuwei Peng, Meng Tang +5Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Central South University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Aberystwyth University +3

  5. AeroReformer2: Spoken-Query Referring Segmentation for Aerial Images

    Aug 9, 2026Rui Li, Chenxi Duan, Haoyang YangRemote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

  6. TRNet: Topography-Guided Frequency Rectification and Structure-Aware Decoding for Multimodal Paddy Rice Segmentation

    Aug 4, 2026Kaiwen Xiao, Chunlong Fu, Liping Zheng +1Agricultural Image AnalysisRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Science, Sichuan University Jinjiang College, Meishan 620860, China

  7. UniEvo-RS: Omni-Prompt Unified Remote Sensing Segmentation with Representative Exemplar-Driven Prototype Evolution

    Aug 4, 2026Kunquan Zhang, Peilang Li, Xikun Hu +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationTest-Time Adaptation

    Sun Yat-sen University · National University of Defense Technology

  8. Distilled Roads: Generalisable Road Network Extraction Across Sensors, Resolutions, and Region

    Aug 4, 2026Sanayya, Rakshith Sathish, Ashwathi NambiarRemote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

    SatSure Analytics India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India

  9. Standalone DINOv3 for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing

    Aug 4, 2026Changhao Zhao, Haoxiang Li, Yuke Li +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

  10. ISRS-DETR: Detection-Guided Click Propagation for Remote Sensing Interactive Segmentation

    Aug 3, 2026Thanh Duc Pham, Anh Nguyen, Duong Duc Hieu +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK · IRISA, Université Bretagne Sud, UMR 6074, 56000 Vannes, France

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

    Aug 3, 2026Gaetano Chiriaco, Luca Barco, Andrea Bragagnolo +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

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

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

    Aug 3, 2026Xingyan Li, Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega, Jie Gong +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

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

  13. Training-Free Entity-Level Few-Shot Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images with Advection Refinement

    Jul 31, 2026Xueting Bai, Huan NiRemote Sensing Image SegmentationVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.

  14. Counting the Cost of War Under Satellite Embargo: Zero-Shot Estimation of Impacted Infrastructure

    Jul 31, 2026Saleh Sakib Ahmed, M. Sohel RahmanRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Palashi, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.

  15. Large scale cross-regional remote sensing flood monitoring framework for operative mapping and impact analysis

    Jul 30, 2026Ilya Novikov, Svetlana Illarionova, Ruslan Dzharkinov +6Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDisaster Damage Assessment

    Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 121205, Russia. · Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia. +2

  16. Think with Extra-Image: A Farmland Segmentation Agent Driven by Spatio-Temporal Information Gain

    Jul 30, 2026Haiyang Wu, Weiliang Mu, Zhuofei Du +4Active PerceptionRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Central South University, Changsha, China

  17. Few-Shot Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Segmentation via Textual Inversion

    Jul 28, 2026Junhyuk Heo, Junghwan ParkRemote Sensing Image SegmentationFew-Shot Semantic Segmentation

    TelePIX, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  18. When Less Is More: A Controlled Benchmark of Lightweight CNNs for Satellite Land-Cover Segmentation on DeepGlobe

    Jul 25, 2026Atiq Ur Rehman, Joseph Michael DonovanRemote Sensing Image SegmentationLand Cover Classification

    Department of Economics & Decision Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA · University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA

  19. Beyond Binary Rooftop Mapping: A Four-Class Deep Learning Framework for Green Roof Potential Assessment from Open Swiss Geospatial Data

    Jul 24, 2026Htet Yamin Ko KoRemote Sensing Image SegmentationUrban Planning

    International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

  20. Farmland Extent and Visible Boundary Mapping from 1 m NAIP Imagery Using Residual U-Net and Text-Prompted SAM 3 Refinement

    Jul 24, 2026Mohammadreza Narimani, Vikram Anand, Parastoo FarajpoorRemote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA · Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA, USA

  21. HyperImageNet: A Large-Scale High-Spatial Resolution Hyperspectral Imagery Classification Benchmark

    Jul 23, 2026Chuguang Zeng, Jingtao Li, Yinhe Liu +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationLand Cover Classification

    Wuhan University 430072 Wuhan, China

  22. Toward Seasonal Guidelines for Robust Deep-Learning Sentinel-2 Building Detection in Different Area Types

    Jul 22, 2026Michał Romaszewski, Kamil Drejer, Katarzyna Kołodziej +7Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDistribution Shift

    Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bałtycka 5, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland · Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences Bartycka 18a, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland

  23. Delineate Anything v2: A Global Foundation Model for Field Delineation

    Jul 21, 2026Mykola Lavreniuk, Nataliia Kussul, Andrii Shelestov +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy · Space Research Institute NASU-SSAU, Kyiv, Ukraine · University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA +1

  24. Spectral-Morphological Attention U-Net: An Efficient Network for Active Wildfire Detection

    Jul 17, 2026Yugong Zeng, Jonathan WuRemote Sensing Image SegmentationWildfire Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4

  25. HASTE: A Platform for Rapid Post-Disaster Building Damage Assessment

    Jul 13, 2026Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Simone Fobi Nsutezo +8Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDisaster Damage Assessment

    Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab

  26. Self-supervised training for high-resolution close-range multispectral remote sensing imagery

    Jul 13, 2026Leon-Friedrich Thomas, Mikael Änäkkälä, Antti LajunenAgricultural Image AnalysisRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 28, Fi-00014 Helsinki, Finland · University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, P.O. Box 27, Fi-00014 Helsinki, Finland

  27. Align and Segment: Unsupervised Learning for Building Segmentation From Misaligned Labels

    Jul 12, 2026Venkanna Babu Guthula, Oswin Krause, Dimitri Gominski +5Remote Sensing Image SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark · Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

  28. Promptable Concept Segmentation from Above: Evaluating SAM 3's Zero-Shot and One-Shot Capabilities in Remote Sensing

    Jul 10, 2026Mohammad Dabaja, Turgay CelikRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Department of ICT, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

  29. EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping

    Jul 7, 2026Innocent Onyenonachi, Peter J. Lawerance, Nadia KanwalRemote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, ST5 3BG, United Kingdom · School of Life Science, Keele University, ST5 3BG, United Kingdom

  30. Fields of the Planet: Field Boundary Mapping Beyond 10m

    Jul 5, 2026Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marcus +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    Taylor Geospatial · Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab · Arizona State University