Overview

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.

Latest papers

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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. An InSAR Phase Unwrapping Framework for Large-scale and Complex Events

    Mar 22, 2026Yijia Song, Juliet Biggs, Alin Achim +3Remote SensingInverse Problems

  2. SIMPLER: Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation via Similarity-Guided Layer Pruning for Earth Observation

    Mar 20, 2026Víctor Barreiro, Johannes Jakubik, Francisco Argüello +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  3. Beyond detection: cooperative multi-agent reasoning for rapid onboard EO crisis response

    Mar 20, 2026Alejandro D. Mousist, Pedro Delgado de Robles Martín, Raquel Lladró Climent +1Multi-Agent ReasoningMulti-Agent Orchestration

  4. The Global-Local loop: what is missing in bridging the gap between geospatial data from numerous communities?

    Mar 19, 2026Clément Mallet, Ana-Maria RaimondMultimodal FusionRemote Sensing

  5. An assessment of data-centric methods for label noise identification in remote sensing data sets

    Mar 17, 2026Felix Kröber, Genc Hoxha, Ribana RoscherNoisy-Label LearningLearning with Noisy Labels

  6. LenghuSky-8: An 8-Year All-Sky Cloud Dataset with Star-Aware Masks and Alt-Az Calibration for Segmentation and Nowcasting

    Mar 17, 2026Yicheng Rui, Xiao-Wei Duan, Licai Deng +9Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

  7. Unpaired Cross-Domain Calibration of DMSP to VIIRS Nighttime Light Data Based on CUT Network

    Mar 17, 2026Zhan Tong, ChenXu Zhou, Fei Tang +3Remote SensingUnpaired Image-to-Image Translation

  8. PKINet-v2: Towards Powerful and Efficient Poly-Kernel Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Xinhao Cai, Liulei Li, Gensheng Pei +3Remote SensingEfficient Object Detection

  9. NeSy-Route: A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark for Constrained Route Planning in Remote Sensing

    Mar 17, 2026Ming Yang, Zhi Zhou, Shi-Yu Tian +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

  10. PAKAN: Pixel Adaptive Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Modules for Pansharpening

    Mar 16, 2026Haoyu Zhang, Haojing Chen, Zhen Zhong +1Neural Network Activation FunctionsPansharpening

  11. Pansharpening for Thin-Cloud Contaminated Remote Sensing Images: A Unified Framework and Benchmark Dataset

    Mar 16, 2026Songcheng Du, Yang Zou, Jiaxin Li +4PansharpeningRemote Sensing

  12. G-ZAP: A Generalizable Zero-Shot Framework for Arbitrary-Scale Pansharpening

    Mar 15, 2026Zhiqi Yang, Shan Yin, Jingze Liang +1Zero-Shot LearningRemote Sensing

  13. VFM-Loc: Training-Free Cross-View Geo-Localization via Aligning Discriminative Visual Hierarchies

    Mar 14, 2026Jun Lu, Zehao Sang, Haoqi Wei +5Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGeospatial Representation Learning

  14. Hide and Seek: Investigating Redundancy in Earth Observation Imagery

    Mar 13, 2026Tasos Papazafeiropoulos, Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Nikolas Papadopoulos +1Remote SensingEnergy-Efficient ML

  15. G2HFNet: GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 13, 2026Bin Wan, Runmin Cong, Xiaofei Zhou +3Salient Object DetectionRemote Sensing

  16. AVION: Aerial Vision-Language Instruction from Offline Teacher to Prompt-Tuned Network

    Mar 13, 2026Yu Hu, Jianyang Gu, Hao Liu +4VLM AdaptationRemote Sensing VLMs

  17. Radiometric fingerprinting of object surfaces using mobile laser scanning and semantic 3D road space models

    Mar 11, 2026Benedikt Schwab, Thomas H. KolbeRemote Sensing3D Scene Representation

  18. 6ABOS: An Open-Source Atmospheric Correction Framework for the EnMAP Hyperspectral Mission Based on 6S

    Mar 11, 2026Gabriel Caballero Cañas, Bárbara Alvado Arranz, Xavier Sòria-Perpinyà +3Remote SensingHyperspectral Imaging

  19. How to Embed Matters: Evaluation of EO Embedding Design Choices

    Mar 11, 2026Luis Gilch, Isabelle Wittmann, Maximilian Nitsche +3Geospatial Representation LearningGeospatial Foundation Models

  20. Learning from Radio using Variational Quantum RF Sensing

    Mar 10, 2026Ivana NikoloskaWireless LocalizationRemote Sensing

  21. OilSAM2: Memory-Augmented SAM2 for Scalable SAR Oil Spill Detection

    Mar 10, 2026Shuaiyu Chen, Ming Yin, Peng Ren +2Synthetic Aperture RadarRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

  22. Geometric-Topological Perception and Motion Prior for Real-Time Satellite Video Object Tracking

    Mar 8, 2026Zixiao Wen, Guangyao Zhou, Jiawei Li +4Visual Object TrackingSiamese Neural Networks

  23. SIGMAE: A Spectral-Index-Guided Foundation Model for Multispectral Remote Sensing

    Mar 8, 2026Xiaokang Zhang, Bo Li, Chufeng Zhou +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

  24. LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Satellite Remote Sensing Data with a Predictive Architecture

    Mar 7, 2026Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefan Kesselheim +1Equivariant Representation LearningGeometric Representation Learning

  25. Physics-Guided VLM Priors for All-Cloud Removal

    Mar 7, 2026Liying Xu, Huifang Li, Huanfeng ShenRemote SensingPhysics-Guided Image Restoration

  26. CHMv2: Improvements in Global Canopy Height Mapping using DINOv3

    Mar 6, 2026John Brandt, Seungeun Yi, Jamie Tolan +9Remote SensingRemote Sensing Image Understanding

  27. EarthBridge: A Solution for 4th Multi-modal Aerial View Image Challenge Translation Track

    Mar 6, 2026Zhenyuan Chen, Guanyuan Shen, Feng ZhangImage-to-Image TranslationUnpaired Image-to-Image Translation

  28. Dynamic Targeting of Satellite Observations Using Supplemental Geostationary Satellite Data and Hierarchical Planning

    Mar 5, 2026Akseli Kangaslahti, Itai Zilberstein, Alberto Candela +1Remote SensingLong-Horizon Planning