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. A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method for RemoteSensing Traffic Object Segmentation

    Jul 4, 2026Zhigang Yang, Huiguang Yao, Linmao Tian +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, OPtics and ElectroNics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China · School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China

  2. GeoSelect: Spatial-Program Execution for Training-Free Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Jul 4, 2026Yuhang Jiang, Guohui Deng, Miaozhong Xu +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationReferring Expression Segmentation

    School of Internet, Anhui University, Hefei, China · National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Anhui University, Hefei, China · State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  3. 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

  4. Exploring SAM Supervision for Fine-Grained UAV Target Segmentation under Data Scarcity

    Jul 4, 2026Le-Anh TranImage SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

  5. FROST: Training-Free Few-Shot Segmentation with Frozen Features and Nonparametric Statistics

    Jun 30, 2026Junghwan ParkRemote Sensing Image SegmentationFew-Shot Semantic Segmentation

    TelePIX

  6. High-Resolution Flood Mapping With Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 via Misalignment-Robust Cross-Sensor Learning and Generative Despeckling

    Jun 29, 2026David Ma, Jeremy Feinstein, Shreya Pandit +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationFlood Inundation Mapping

    Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439 USA · Ohlone College, Fremont, CA 94539 USA

  7. Semantic-Driven Scale and Spatial Selection for Efficient Cross-Modal Alignment in Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Jun 29, 2026Kun Li, Shengxi Gui, Francesco Nex +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationCross-Modal Alignment

    University of Liverpool, UK · University of Michigan, USA · University of Twente, NL +1

  8. Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models for Agriculture Applications

    Jun 29, 2026Zhuocheng Shang, Sanmay Das, Ahmed EldawyRemote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    University of California, Riverside · Riverside, USA

  9. Beyond Backscatter: AlphaEarth Land-Cover Priors for Rapid SAR Flood Segmentation Across Foundation Backbones

    Jun 28, 2026Sanjay Thasma, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Ali MostafaviRemote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX · Urban Resilience.AI Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  10. RSGPNet: Geometric Prompting for Remote Sensing Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 25, 2026Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun, Sirui Wang +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationText-Guided Image Segmentation

    Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, 999078, SAR Macao, China · Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany

  11. Methane-Plume Segmentation From Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery Via Multimodal Deep Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Brayan Quintero, Jeferson Acevedo, Samuel Traslaviña +1Efficient Multimodal InferenceRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science, Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga, 680002, Colombia

  12. Efficient Remote Sensing Instance Segmentation with Linear-Time State Space Distilled Visual Foundation Models

    Jun 24, 2026Qinzhe Yang, Keyan Chen, Jia Xu +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Shen Yuan Honors College, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Department of Aerospace Intelligent Science and Technology, School of Astronautics, and with the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China

  13. Benchmarking the Alignment of Data-Quality Metrics, Human Judgment and Land-Cover Segmentation Performance for Earth Observation

    Jun 23, 2026Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin TemizelSynthetic Data AugmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  14. Flood Mapping from RGB imagery using a Vision Foundation Model

    Jun 23, 2026Vladyslav Polushko, Tilman Bucher, Ronald Rösch +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    Image Processing Department, Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany · Institut für Optische Sensorsysteme, DLR, Berlin, Germany · ACIDA Lab, Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany +1

  15. Hedgementation = Hedgerow Segmentation: A Remote Sensing Benchmark

    Jun 22, 2026Nathan Senyard, Salem Hamdani, Astrid Zhang +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    UBC CS · INSAT Tunisia · Vector Institute +1

  16. Prompt-Calibrated SAM 3 for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 20, 2026Yanghui Song, Nanqing Liu, Haonan Yin +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

  17. BELDE: Building a Large-scale Earth-observation Land-cover Dataset for Europe

    Jun 18, 2026Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin TemizelRemote Sensing Image SegmentationDistribution Shift

    Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  18. PCFootprint: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Vectorized Building Footprint Extraction from Aerial LiDAR Point Clouds

    Jun 18, 2026Haoyuan Shen, Kuihao Wang, Ruisheng Wang +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationBuilding Footprint Extraction

    School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

  19. Exploring the potential of AlphaEarth and TESSERA embeddings for Fine-scale Local Climate Zone Mapping: A case study across five cities in Switzerland

    Jun 18, 2026Htet Yamin Ko Ko, Clement AtzbergerRemote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland · CYCLOPS MRV, United States

  20. Explainable Flood Segmentation on Sentinel-1 SAR1 Imagery Using CNN and Transformer Architectures

    Jun 15, 2026Arundhuti Banerjee, David DaouRemote Sensing Image SegmentationExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) · Bonn, Germany 53113 · United Nations University’s InstituteBonn,forGermanyEnvironment53113and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

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

    Jun 12, 2026Huong Binh VuRemote Sensing Image SegmentationHybrid CNN-Transformer Architectures

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

  22. To GAN or Not To GAN: Segmentation Analysis on Mars DEM

    Jun 11, 2026Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve, Aditya V. Handrale, Salim Fares +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    University of Passau

  23. ZODS-RS -- Zero-training Oriented Detection & Segmentation for Remote Sensing

    Jun 9, 2026Zuan Gu, Tianhan Gao, Langxu ZhaoRemote Sensing Small Object DetectionRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Northeastern University, China

  24. iSAGE: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation via Sparse Point Supervision

    Jun 8, 2026Osmar Luiz Ferreira de Carvalho, Osmar Abilio de Carvalho Junior, Anesmar Olino de Albuquerque +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationHuman-in-the-Loop Annotation

  25. Zero-Parameter Geometric Gating for Temporally Stable Low-Altitude UAV Video Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 8, 2026Jingpu Yang, Fengxian Ji, Zhengzhao Lai +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Beihang University China · Northeastern University China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen China +1

  26. PolyBuild: An End-to-End Method for Polygonal Building Contour Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

    Jun 8, 2026Yaoteng Zhang, Julin Zhang, Guangshuai Wang +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China · South Surveying&Mapping Instrument Co.,Ltd. · China Railway Design Corporation, Tianjin, China

  27. 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 +6Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    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.

  28. GMBFormer: An NDVI-Guided Global Memory Bank Transformer for Urban Green-Space Extraction from Ultra-High-Resolution Imagery

    Jun 4, 2026Hao Lei, Xi Cheng, Chenlu Shu +4Prototype-Based LearningRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    College of Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China · National Engineering Research Center for Geomatics, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

  29. Comparison of Deep Learning Frameworks For Rice Disease Mapping From UAV Multispectral Imaging

    Jun 4, 2026Yadav Raj Ghimire, Jagrati Talreja, Tewodros Syum Gebre +3Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.

  30. A Fast Methane Detection Pipeline on Board Satellites Based on Mag1c-SAS and LinkNet

    Jun 2, 2026Jonáš Herec, Vít Růžička, Rado Pitoňák +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    Zaitra s.r.o., Brno, Czech Republic · Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic · NASA JPL, California, USA