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  1. DFM: Difference Feature Modeling with Text-Guided Gated Contrastive Loss for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    Jun 25, 2026Yelin Wang, Zijia Song, Chuanguang Yang +4Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    ShanghaiTech University · National University of Defense Technology · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  2. Topology-Informed Neural Networks for Flood Detection in Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

    Jun 24, 2026Sophia Li, Max Zhao, Raghu G. Raj +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Response

    aU.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA · bStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  3. LEVIRDet: A Million-Scale 159-Category Dataset and Foundation Model for Universal Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Jun 24, 2026Qinzhe Yang, Dongyu Wang, Haohan Niu +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    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

  4. AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery

    Jun 22, 2026Suraj Prasai, Kangning Cui, Rongkun Zhu +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

    Wake Forest University · Hong Kong Baptist University

  5. RAPID: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite and Street-View Imagery

    Jun 20, 2026Yifan Yang, Wenjing Gong, Kaili Zhang +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Damage Assessment

    Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA · National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore · The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

  6. A Unified Framework for Efficient Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering: Adapting Dual, Hybrid, and Encoder-Decoder Architectures

    Jun 17, 2026Timothy Agboada, Shikha Chandel, Yadav Raj Ghimire +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVisual Question Answering

    Computational Data Science and Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro - NC, USA · College of Science and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro - NC, USA

  7. Geometric Consistency Protocol for Foundation Model Features in Multi-View Satellite Imagery

    Jun 16, 2026Qiyan Luo, Jie Yang, Yingdong Pi +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMulti-View Consistency

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

  8. Bridging Spatial And Frequency Views For Disaster Assessment: Benefits And Limitations

    Jun 16, 2026Shikha V. Chandel, Yadav Raj Ghimire, Timothy Agboada +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingBuilding Damage Assessment

    College of Science and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC · Computational Data Science and Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC

  9. Landsat-Sentinel-2 Algal Bloom Mapping Using Vision Transformers: Model Description, Implementation, and Examples

    Jun 15, 2026Thainara Lima, Vitor MartinsRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision Transformer

    a Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University (MSU), Starkville, MS 39762, USA.

  10. FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared Remote Sensing Dataset for Dual-Modal Vision-Language Foundation Models

    Jun 15, 2026Jiaju Han, Ben Zhang, Xuemeng Sun +6Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMultimodal Pretraining

    China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tianjin University

  11. Beyond Templates: Revisiting Zero-Shot Remote Sensing through Meta-Prompting

    Jun 15, 2026Eirini Baltzi, Dionysis Christopoulos, Sotiris Spanos +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingZero-Shot Image Classification

    Remote Sensing Lab, National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece · Department of Engineering and Sciences, Universitas Mercatorum Rome, Italy

  12. Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding for Remote Sensing Images and Videos

    Jun 15, 2026Ke Li, Di Wang, Yongshan Zhu +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingTemporal Video Grounding

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China · Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710126, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China +2

  13. HARBOR: Heading Analysis and Reconstruction from Behavioral Observation and Radar

    Jun 12, 2026Joao P. A. Dantas, Paulo F. Silva Filho, Jelton A. Cunha +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVessel Trajectory Prediction

    Institute for Advanced Studies, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

  14. Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys

    Jun 11, 2026Isai Daniel Chacón, Zhongqi Miao, Bruno Demuro +9Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingWeakly Supervised Learning

    Microsoft AI for Good Lab, Redmond, WA, USA · Center for Research and Formation in Artificial Intelligence (Cinfonia), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia · Conservation X Labs, Washington, D.C., USA +3

  15. Damage-TriageFormer: A Foundation-Model Framework for Typology-Based Building Damage Assessment from Mono-Temporal Imagery

    Jun 10, 2026Yiming Xiao, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Sanjay Thasma +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Damage Assessment

    Texas A&M University · Resilitix Intelligence LLC · Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas

  16. 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 AydinRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

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

  17. Deep Learning-Based Lunar Crater Terrain Relative Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Batu Candan, Simone ServadioRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRobot Navigation

    Aerospace Engineering Department · Iowa State University · Ames, Iowa, USA

  18. Earth-OneVision: Extending Remote Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models to More Sensor Modalities and Tasks

    Jun 9, 2026Miaoxin Cai, Guanqun Wang, Wei Zhang +6Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMultimodal Grounding

    National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space-Born Intelligent Information Processing (SBIIP), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China +5

  19. Vector Map as Language: Toward Unified Remote Sensing Vector Mapping

    Jun 9, 2026Yinglong Yan, Yunkai Yang, Haoyi Wang +7Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    school of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong · Department of Geomatics Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China +1

  20. NAVI-Orbital: First In-Orbit Demonstration of a Zero-Shot Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Earth Observation

    Jun 5, 2026Juan Manuel Delfa Victoria, Taran Cyriac John, Andrew W. HersonRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA · School of Engineering and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington Wellington 6140, New Zealand · Loft Orbital 321 11th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

  21. Physics-Driven Semantic Scattering Structure Understanding of Aircraft Target in SAR Images

    Jun 5, 2026Yifei Yin, Xiaogang Yu, Hao Shi +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingPhysics-Informed ML

    School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China, and with the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space-Born Intelligent Information Processing · Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Information, Beijing, China

  22. 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 +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRepresentation Learning

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

  23. Cross-Domain Dead Tree Detection via Knowledge Distillation in Aerial Imagery

    Jun 1, 2026Anis Ur Rahman, Mete Ahishali, Einari Heinaro +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingCross-Domain Transfer Learning

    CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland · Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki · KOKO Forest Ltd. +1

  24. Exploiting In-Sensor Computing for Energy-Efficient Earth Observation

    May 31, 2026Luigi Capogrosso, Pietro Bonazzi, Loris Hoxhaj +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingEnergy-Efficient ML

    Interdisciplinary Transformation University of Austria · ETH Zurich · University of Verona

  25. CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery

    May 30, 2026Oishee Bintey Hoque, Nibir Chandra Mandal, Mandy L Wilson +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingAgricultural Remote Sensing

    University of Virginia · Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia

  26. DarkVesselNet: Multi-Modal Remote Sensing and Trajectory Reasoning for Dark Vessel Detection

    May 30, 2026Arun SharmaRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingMultimodal Anomaly Detection

    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  27. Explainable Comparison of Feature-Based and Deep Learning Models for TROPOMI Methane Plume Screening

    May 26, 2026Solomiia Kurchaba, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Berend J. Schuit +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

    SRON Space Research Organisation Netherlands Leiden, The Netherlands · GHGSat Inc. Montreal, Canada · Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  28. Multi-Modal Building Inspection via Perceiver IO Fusion of Satellite and Street-Level Imagery

    May 25, 2026Niels Sombekke, Rob G. J. Wijnhoven, Martin R. OswaldRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingMulti-Source Image Fusion

    University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Spotr, The Hague, The Netherlands

  29. Beyond Appearance: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Exploit Vertical Structure for Remote Sensing Natural Scene Understanding?

    May 25, 2026Jing Huang, Duanchu Wang, Junjie Yang +5VLM EvaluationRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    School of Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · Shenyang Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China · State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  30. SLIP-RS: Structured-Attribute Language-Image Pre-Training for Remote Sensing Object Detection

    May 22, 2026Chenxu Wang, Yuxuan Li, Yunheng Li +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    1VCIP, CS, Nankai University · 2NKIARI, Shenzhen Futian · 3National University of Defense Technology