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. Event-Based Vision in Space: Applications, Trends, and Future Directions

    May 31, 2026Luigi Capogrosso, Pietro Bonazzi, Michele MagnoEvent-Based VisionRemote Sensing

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

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

  3. Cross-Modal Hierarchical Fusion for from Multi-Sensor Ground Observation

    May 31, 2026Xinze ZhangImage ReconstructionRemote Sensing

  4. CR-JEPA: Cross-Modal Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

    May 30, 2026Md Aminur Hossain, Ayush V. Patel, Nitant Dube +1Cross-Modal Representation LearningJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

  5. Improving Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing via Cluster-Guided Refinement and Model Ensemble Voting

    May 30, 2026Panav Shah, Geet Sethi, Ashutosh GandheRemote SensingVision-Language Grounding

  6. HADT: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Differential Transformer for Autonomous Earth Observation Satellite Cluster

    May 29, 2026Mohamad A. Hady, Muhammad Anwar Masum, Siyi Hu +3TransformerRemote Sensing

  7. Clustering Guided Domain-Specific Pretrained Foundation Model for Very High-Resolution Arctic Remote Sensing

    May 28, 2026Amal S. Perera, Chandi Witharana, Elias Manos +2Domain-Adaptive PretrainingVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  8. EarthShift: a benchmark for measuring robustness to real-world distribution shifts in Earth observation

    May 28, 2026Kelsey Doerksen, Hannah KernerDistribution Shift RobustnessGeospatial Foundation Models

  9. Seeing through boxes: Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Reconstruction from Radar Signals

    May 27, 2026Jiachen Lu, Hailan Shanbhag, Haitham Al HassaniehNeural Representation Geometry3D Reconstruction

  10. GeRaF: Neural Geometry Reconstruction from Radio Frequency Signals

    May 27, 2026Jiachen Lu, Hailan Shanbhag, Haitham Al HassaniehImplicit Neural Representations3D Reconstruction

  11. A Deep Learning Iterative Framework for Sentinel-1 Stripmap Enhancement Based on Azimuth Doppler Decomposition

    May 27, 2026Juan Francisco Amieva, Christian Ayala, Roberto Del Prete +1Image EnhancementSelf-Supervised Learning

  12. FLORO: A Multimodal Geospatial Foundation Model for Ecological Remote Sensing Across Sensors and Scales

    May 27, 2026Jorge L. Rodriguez, Victor Angulo Morales, Areej Alwahas +6Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

  13. A novel ordinal multi-view aggregation scheme for oak defoliation

    May 27, 2026Francisco Bérchez-Moreno, Ricardo Enrique Hernández-Lambraño, David Guijo-Rubio +4Ensemble LearningMulti-View Learning

  14. Asynchronous Remote Sensing Time-Series Fusion for Cloud Removal and Anytime Reconstruction

    May 26, 2026Forouzan Fallah, Chia Yu Hsu, Wenwen Li +2Flow MatchingRemote Sensing

  15. 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

  16. Lake Detection and Water Quality Estimation in Sentinel-2 Data

    May 23, 2026Iulia Pleşu, Alexandra Băicoianu, Ioana Cristina PlajerScientific VisualizationRemote Sensing

  17. Benchmarking Composed Image Retrieval for Applied Earth Observation

    May 23, 2026Bill Psomas, Dionysis Christopoulos, Thanasis Petropoulos +6Disaster Damage AssessmentRemote Sensing

  18. Plume Segmentation from MethaneSAT with Cross-Sensor Transfer Learning and Physics-Informed Postprocessing

    May 22, 2026Manuel Pérez-Carrasco, Maya Nasr, Zhan Zhang +16Remote Sensing Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

  19. Overcoming "Physics Shock" in Earth Observation A Heteroscedastic Uncertainty Framework for PINN-based Flood Inference

    May 22, 2026Tewodros Syum Gebre, Jagrati Talreja, Matilda Anokye +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationUncertainty Quantification

  20. Seeing Inside the Storm: Improving Nowcasting by Integrating Meteorological Drivers

    May 22, 2026Minghui Qiu, Jun Chen, Lin Chen +5Precipitation ForecastingRemote Sensing

  21. 3D LULC classification using multispectral LiDAR and deep learning: current and prospective schemes

    May 21, 2026Narges Takhtkeshha, Aldino Rizaldy, Markus Hollaus +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingPoint Cloud Classification

  22. Impact of Atmospheric Turbulence and Pointing Error on Earth Observation

    May 21, 2026Celia Sánchez-de-Miguel, Antonio M. Mercado-Martínez, Beatriz Soret +2Image Corruption RobustnessRemote Sensing

  23. A Non-Reference Diffusion-Based Restoration Framework for Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off Imagery in Antarctica

    May 20, 2026Leyue Tang, Jonathan Louis Bamber, Gang Qiao +1Diffusion Models for Image RestorationRemote Sensing

  24. Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks for Land Use Scene Classification

    May 20, 2026Arun D. KulkarniRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision Transformer

  25. Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Forest Height Estimation from TanDEM-X and Landsat Data

    May 20, 2026Islam Mansour, Ronny Haensch, Irena Hajnsek +1Remote SensingPhysics-Informed ML

  26. MetaEarth-MM: Unified Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Generation with Scene-centered Joint Modeling

    May 19, 2026Zhiping Yu, Chenyang Liu, Jinqi Cao +4Cross-Modal LearningUnified Multimodal Models

  27. CryoNet: A Deep Learning Framework for Multi-Modal Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping. A Case Study of the Poiqu Basin, Central Himalaya

    May 19, 2026Farzaneh Barzegar, Tobias Bolch, Norbert Kuehtreiber +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

  28. StruMPL: Multi-task Dense Regression under Disjoint Partial Supervision and MNAR Labels

    May 19, 2026Reza M. Asiyabi, Juan Alberto Molina-Valero, The SEOSAW Partnership +2Forest Aboveground Biomass EstimationMulti-Task Learning