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. On-Orbit Real-Time Wildfire Detection Under On-Board Constraints

    May 7, 2026Matthias Rötzer, Veronika Pörtge, Martin Ickerott +6Efficient Neural Network InferenceWildfire Detection

  2. Uncertainty-Guided Edge Learning for Deep Image Regression in Remote Sensing

    May 7, 2026Anh Vu Nguyen, Dino Sejdinovic, Tat-Jun ChinRemote SensingEdge ML

  3. Bayesian Rain Field Reconstruction using Commercial Microwave Links and Diffusion Model Priors

    May 6, 2026Badr Moufad, Albina Ilina, Hai Victor Habi +4Bayesian Inverse ProblemsRemote Sensing

  4. Bridging Perception and Action: A Lightweight Multimodal Meta-Planner Framework for Robust Earth Observation Agents

    May 6, 2026Jinghui Xu, Boyi Shangguan, Mengke Zhu +10Remote SensingTool-Use Planning

  5. Morphology-Guided Cross-Task Coupling for Joint Building Height and Footprint Estimation

    May 6, 2026Jinzhen Han, JinByeong Lee, Jisung Kim +1Building Footprint ExtractionMulti-Task Learning

  6. Efficient Geometry-Controlled High-Resolution Satellite Image Synthesis

    May 6, 2026Vlad Vasilescu, Daniela Faur, Teodor CostachioiuRemote SensingDiffusion-Based Image Generation

  7. RemoteZero: Geospatial Reasoning with Zero Human Annotations

    May 6, 2026Liang Yao, Fan Liu, Shengxiang Xu +4Self-TrainingRemote Sensing

  8. Densification and forecasting of Sentinel-2 time series from multimodal SAR and Optical satellite data using deep generative models

    May 5, 2026Véronique Defonte, Dawa Derksen, Alexandre Constantin +1Irregular Time-Series ModelingRemote Sensing

  9. Survey on Disaster Management Datasets for Remote Sensing Based Emergency Applications

    May 5, 2026Alain P. Ndigande, Josiah Wiggins, Sedat OzerRemote SensingDisaster Response

  10. Neural Posterior Estimation of Terrain Parameters from Radar Sounder Data

    May 5, 2026Jordy Dal Corso, Annalena Kofler, Marco Cortellazzi +2Simulation-Based InferenceParameter Estimation

  11. Fully Automatic Trace Gas Plume Detection

    May 5, 2026Vít Růžička, David R. Thompson, Jay E. Fahlen +13Remote Sensing

  12. Multi-Fidelity Emulation of Atmospheric Correction Coefficients with Physics-Guided Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    May 4, 2026Md Abdullah Al Mazid, Naphtali RisheSurrogate ModelingRemote Sensing

  13. Sentinel2Cap: A Human-Annotated Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Captioning

    May 4, 2026Lucrezia Tosato, Gianluca Lombardi, Ronny HanschRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Image Captioning

  14. Rethinking Electro-Optical Vision Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Retrieval: A Controlled Comparison with Generalist VFM

    May 4, 2026Hyobin Park, Minseok Seo, Dong-Geol ChoiRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision Foundation Models

  15. RAFNet: Region-Aware Fusion Network for Pansharpening

    May 4, 2026Jianing Zhang, Zijian Zhou, Kai SunDynamic ConvolutionFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

  16. Cross-Polarization Fusion of VV AND VH SAR Observations for Improved Flood Mapping

    May 4, 2026Jagrati Talreja, Tewodros Syum Gebre, Leila Hashemi BeniRemote Sensing Image SegmentationFlood Inundation Mapping

  17. FLoRA: Fusion-Latent for Optical Reconstruction and Flood Area Segmentation via Cross-Modal Multi-Task Distillation Network

    May 4, 2026Jagrati Talreja, Tewodros Syum Gebre, Leila Hashemi-BeniCross-Modal Knowledge DistillationMulti-Source Image Fusion

  18. CGFformer: Cluster-Guidance Frequency Transformer for Pansharpening

    May 2, 2026Zijian Zhou, Jianing Zhang, Kai Sun +3Frequency-Domain Feature LearningRemote Sensing

  19. EO-Gym: A Multimodal, Interactive Environment for Earth Observation Agents

    May 2, 2026Sai Ma, Zhuang Li, Sichao Li +4Spatiotemporal ReasoningRemote Sensing

  20. Foundation AI Models for Aerosol Optical Depth Estimation from PACE Satellite Data

    May 1, 2026Zahid Hassan Tushar, Sanjay PurushothamVision Foundation ModelsVision Transformer

  21. Flow matching for Sentinel-2 super-resolution: implementation, application, and implications

    May 1, 2026Dakota Hester, Vitor S. Martins, Lucas B. Ferreira +2Flow MatchingLand Cover Classification

  22. Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

    May 1, 2026Zhili Li, Kangyang Chai, Zhihao Wang +6Remote Sensing Image Super-ResolutionRemote Sensing

  23. Efficient Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Pixel Classification with Vision Transformers

    Apr 30, 2026Alan Gomes, Anderson Gonçalves, Samuel Felipe dos Santos +6Agricultural Remote SensingVision Transformer

  24. Remote SAMsing: From Segment Anything to Segment Everything

    Apr 30, 2026Osmar Luiz Ferreira de Carvalho, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior, Anesmar Olino de Albuquerque +1Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

  25. A generalised pre-training strategy for deep learning networks in semantic segmentation of remotely sensed images

    Apr 30, 2026Yuan Fang, Yuanzhi Cai, Jagannath Aryal +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

  26. ZAYAN: Disentangled Contrastive Transformer for Tabular Remote Sensing Data

    Apr 30, 2026Al Zadid Sultan Bin Habib, Tanpia Tasnim, Md. Ekramul Islam +1Contrastive LearningDisentangled Representation Learning

  27. Continuous Flood Nowcasting in South Asia: A Multi-Sensor Ensemble Remote Sensing Framework for Flood Extent

    Apr 29, 2026Usman Nazir, Disha Gomathinayagam, Muhammad Kamran +1Flood Inundation MappingRemote Sensing