Remote Sensing

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The field turns optical, radar, hyperspectral, thermal, and LiDAR observations into maps and measurements of land cover, buildings, forests, hazards, weather, and environmental change. Common approaches include convolutional and transformer models, time-series analysis, multimodal sensor fusion, geospatial foundation models, and methods that incorporate physical knowledge or quantify uncertainty. Researchers evaluate these systems on tasks such as segmentation, detection, image restoration, retrieval, and forecasting, increasingly using geographically separated tests and benchmarks that reflect real operating conditions. A central challenge is making results reliable across regions, sensors, seasons, and limited-label settings while balancing accuracy with interpretability, uncertainty, and onboard or large-scale computational constraints.

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528 papers51 papers in the last four weeks, down 20% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Neural Processes Maintain Calibrated Biomass Estimates Across Spatiotemporal Gaps and Disturbance

    Apr 4, 2026Robin Young, Srinivasan KeshavForest Aboveground Biomass EstimationNeural Processes

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridgeshire, UK

  2. ProtoFlow: Mitigating Forgetting in Class-Incremental Remote Sensing Segmentation via Low-Curvature Prototype Flow

    Apr 3, 2026Jiekai Wu, Rong Fu, Chuangqi Li +9Class-Incremental LearningImage Segmentation

    Independent Researcher · The Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China · Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CC, Netherlands +9

  3. A Data-Centric Vision Transformer Baseline for SAR Sea Ice Classification

    Apr 3, 2026David Mike-Ewewie, Panhapiseth Lim, Priyanka KumarRemote SensingVision Transformer

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, USA

  4. Mixture-of-Experts in Remote Sensing: A Survey

    Apr 3, 2026Yongchuan Cui, Peng Liu, Lajiao ChenMixture-of-Experts ModelsRemote Sensing

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China

  5. Task-Guided Prompting for Unified Remote Sensing Image Restoration

    Apr 3, 2026Wenli Huang, Yang Wu, Xiaomeng Xin +3All-in-One Image RestorationRemote Sensing

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China · University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PY, UK +1

  6. MOMO: Mars Orbital Model Foundation Model for Mars Orbital Applications

    Apr 3, 2026Mirali Purohit, Bimal Gajera, Irish Mehta +8Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingGeospatial Foundation Models

    Arizona State University · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  7. Country-wide, high-resolution monitoring of forest browning with Sentinel-2

    Apr 2, 2026Samantha Biegel, David Brüggemann, Francesco Grossi +3Remote Sensing Change DetectionAnomaly Detection

    Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich and ETH AI Center · Swiss Data Science Center, ETH Zürich and EPFL · Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland +2

  8. Test-Time Adaptation for Height Completion via Self-Supervised ViT Features and Monocular Foundation Models

    Apr 2, 2026Osher Rafaeli, Tal Svoray, Ariel Nahlieli3D ReconstructionRemote Sensing

    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

  9. FSKD: Monocular Forest Structure Inference via LiDAR-to-RGBI Knowledge Distillation

    Apr 2, 2026Taimur Khan, Hannes Feilhauer, Muhammad Jazib ZafarRemote SensingRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany · Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany · Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  10. Sub-metre Lunar DEM Generation and Validation from Chandrayaan-2 OHRC Multi-View Imagery Using an Open-Source Pipeline

    Apr 1, 2026Aaranay Aadi, Jai Singla, Nitant Dube +1Remote SensingMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    School of Computer Science and Engineering Manipal University Jaipur Jaipur, India · Space Applications Centre (SAC) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Ahmedabad, India · Intelligent Robotics Group NASA Ames Research Center Moffet Field, CA, USA

  11. BigEarthNet.txt: A Large-Scale Multi-Sensor Image-Text Dataset and Benchmark for Earth Observation

    Mar 31, 2026Johann-Ludwig Herzog, Mathis Jürgen Adler, Leonard Hackel +5Remote SensingRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    BIFOLD and Technische Universität Berlin · University of Trento · National Technical University and National Observatory of Athens

  12. EarthEmbeddingExplorer: A Web Application for Cross-Modal Retrieval of Global Satellite Images

    Mar 31, 2026Yijie Zheng, Weijie Wu, Zhuoyao He +5Remote Sensing

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3

  13. SVH-BD : Synthetic Vegetation Hyperspectral Benchmark Dataset for Emulation of Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 30, 2026Chedly Ben Azizi, Claire Guilloteau, Gilles Roussel +1Remote Sensing BenchmarksRemote Sensing

  14. Whittaker-Henderson smoother for long satellite image time series interpolation

    Mar 30, 2026Mathieu FauvelRemote Sensing

    CESBIO

  15. Robust Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval with Noisy Correspondence

    Mar 30, 2026Qiya Song, Yiqiang Xie, Yuan Sun +2Image-Text RetrievalRetrieval Robustness

    Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China 410081 · Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 610044 · Hunan University, Changsha, China 410082

  16. Transferring Physical Priors into Remote Sensing Segmentation via Large Language Models

    Mar 29, 2026Yuxi Lu, Kunqi Li, Zhidong Li +4Multi-Angular Remote SensingRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  17. Neural Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data

    Mar 26, 2026Judith Treffler, Vladimír Kubelka, Henrik Andreasson +1Implicit Neural Representations3D Reconstruction

    The authors are with ARC and the AASS RNP lab, Örebro University, Sweden

  18. GeoHeight-Bench: Towards Height-Aware Multimodal Reasoning in Remote Sensing

    Mar 26, 2026Xuran Hu, Zhitong Xiong, Zhongcheng Hong +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingLarge Vision-Language Models

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Technical University of Munich · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  19. GeoNDC: A Queryable Neural Data Cube for Planetary-Scale Earth Observation

    Mar 26, 2026Jianbo Qi, Mengyao Li, Baogui Jiang +3Geospatial Representation LearningRemote Sensing

    Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Satellite Applications, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China · State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

  20. OptiSAR-Net++: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Transformer-Free Framework for Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Visual Grounding

    Mar 25, 2026Xiaoyu Tang, Jun Dong, Jintao Cheng +1Remote SensingVision-Language Grounding

    School of Electronics and Information Engineering, and Xingzhi College, South China Normal University, Foshan 528225, China · School of Data Science and Engineering, and Xingzhi College, South China Normal University, Shanwei, 516600, China · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China +1

  21. Connecting Meteorite Spectra to Lunar Surface Composition Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning

    Mar 25, 2026Fatemeh Fazel Hesar, Mojtaba Raouf, Amirmohammad Chegeni +5Remote SensingHyperspectral Image Classification

    Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands · ILEWG LUNEX-EuroSpaceHub EuroMoonMars Earth-Space Innovation Wassenaar, Leiden & Noordwijk, The Netherlands · Department of Space Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands +6

  22. MapForest: A Modular Field Robotics System for Forest Mapping and Invasive Species Localization

    Mar 23, 2026Sandeep Zachariah, Francisco Yandun, Sachet Korada +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingRemote Sensing

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  23. mmFHE: mmWave Sensing with End-to-End Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    Mar 23, 2026Tanvir Ahmed, Yixuan Gao, Adnan Armouti +1mmWave Radar SensingRemote Sensing

    Cornell Tech

  24. Riverine Land Cover Mapping through Semantic Segmentation of Multispectral Point Clouds

    Mar 23, 2026Sopitta Thurachen, Josef Taher, Matti Lehtomäki +6Point TransformerLand Cover Classification

    Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI, Vuorimiehentie 5, Espoo, 02150, Finland · Faculty of Technology, University of Turku, Turku, 20014, Finland · Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Turku, 20014, Finland +1

  25. SatGeo-NeRF: Geometrically Regularized NeRF for Satellite Imagery

    Mar 23, 2026Valentin Wagner, Sebastian Bullinger, Michael Arens +13D ReconstructionNeural Radiance Fields

    Fraunhofer IOSB, Ettlingen, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  26. A Variational Latent-Space Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Spectral Image Emulation

    Mar 23, 2026Chedly Ben Azizi, Claire Guilloteau, Gilles Roussel +1Neural Surrogate ModelingVariational Autoencoders

    Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, LISIC – UR 4491, 62219, Longuenesse, France

  27. Deep S2P: Integrating Learning Based Stereo Matching Into the Satellite Stereo Pipeline

    Mar 23, 2026Elías Masquil, Thibaud Ehret, Pablo Musé +1Stereo MatchingRemote Sensing

    AMIAD, Pôle Recherche, France · Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Institut Universitaire de France

  28. SHARP: Spectrum-aware Highly-dynamic Adaptation for Resolution Promotion in Remote Sensing Synthesis

    Mar 23, 2026Bingxuan Zhao, Qing Zhou, Chuang Yang +2Rotary Positional EmbeddingsDiffusion Transformer

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  29. FSCE: A Target-Aware Frequency-Spatial Collaborative Enhancement Framework for Noise-Resilient SAR ATR

    Mar 23, 2026Yansong Lin, Zihan Cheng, Ziyue Yang +4Image Corruption RobustnessFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    Laboratory of Intelligent Collaborative Computing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering (School of Artificial Intelligence), Wuhan Institute of Technology, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China +1

  30. EpiMask: Leveraging Epipolar Distance Based Masks in Cross-Attention for Satellite Image Matching

    Mar 23, 2026Rahul Deshmukh, Aditya Chauhan, Avinash KakRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Matching

    Purdue University, West Lafayette