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. Bidirectional Semantic Complementary Tool Retrieval for Remote Sensing Agents

    Apr 29, 2026Zeyuan Wang, Dongyang Hou, Cheng Yang +10Remote SensingTool-Using Agents

  2. Parameterized Quantum Circuits as Feature Maps: Representation Quality and Readout Effects in Multispectral Land-Cover Classification

    Apr 29, 2026Ralntion Komini, Aikaterini Mandilara, Georgios Maragkopoulos +1Quantum Feature MapsLand Cover Classification

  3. Evaluating the Alignment Between GeoAI Explanations and Domain Knowledge in Satellite-Based Flood Mapping

    Apr 28, 2026Hyunho Lee, Wenwen LiRemote SensingExplainability Evaluation

  4. EOS-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling

    Apr 28, 2026Qian Yin, Jiaxing Li, Jiaqi Cheng +23Benchmark ConstructionBenchmark Design

  5. SARU: A Shadow-Aware and Removal Unified Framework for Remote Sensing Images with New Benchmarks

    Apr 28, 2026Zi-Yang Bo, Wei Lu, Hongruixuan Chen +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingShadow Removal

  6. Towards Seamless Lunar Mosaics: Deep Radiometric Normalization for Cross-Sensor Orbital Imagery Using Chandrayaan-2 TMC Data

    Apr 28, 2026Pratincha Singh, Jai Gopal Singla, Prashant Hemrajani +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

  7. When Less Is More: Simplicity Beats Complexity for Physics-Constrained InSAR Phase Unwrapping

    Apr 28, 2026Prabhjot Singh, Manmeet SinghU-NetRemote Sensing

  8. Agentic AI for Remote Sensing: Technical Challenges and Research Directions

    Apr 27, 2026Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Umer Sheikh, Akashah Shabbir +5Agentic WorkflowsRemote Sensing

  9. Multispectral airborne laser scanning dataset for tree species classification: MS-ALS-SPECIES

    Apr 27, 2026Matti Hyyppä, Klaara Salolahti, Eric Hyyppä +9Point Cloud ClassificationTree Species Classification

  10. 6thGrid-Net: Unified Remote Sensing Image Dehazing Based on Color Restoration and Edge-Preserving

    Apr 27, 2026Runci Bai, Kui Jiang, Xiang Chen +4Remote SensingAll-in-One Image Restoration

  11. AusSmoke meets MultiNatSmoke: a fully-labelled diverse smoke segmentation dataset

    Apr 26, 2026Weihao Li, Hongjin Zhao, Gao Zhu +4Wildfire DetectionRemote Sensing

  12. A satellite foundation model for improved wealth monitoring

    Apr 25, 2026Zhuo Zheng, Iván Higuera-Mendieta, Richard Lee +5Geospatial Foundation ModelsRemote Sensing

  13. Urban Flood Observations: A hand-labeled training and validation dataset of post-flood inundation

    Apr 24, 2026Rohit Mukherjee, Hannah K. Friedrich, Beth Tellman +5Remote Sensing Image SegmentationFlood Inundation Mapping

  14. Unlocking Optical Prior: Spectrum-Guided Knowledge Transfer for SAR Generalized Category Discovery

    Apr 24, 2026Jingyuan Xia, Ruikang Hu, Ye Li +3Domain AdaptationFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

  15. SyMTRS: Benchmark Multi-Task Synthetic Dataset for Depth, Domain Adaptation and Super-Resolution in Aerial Imagery

    Apr 23, 2026Safouane El Ghazouali, Nicola Venturi, Michael Rueegsegger +1Domain AdaptationMonocular Depth Estimation

  16. Trust-SSL: Additive-Residual Selective Invariance for Robust Aerial Self-Supervised Learning

    Apr 23, 2026Wadii Boulila, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +1Contrastive LearningImage Corruption Robustness

  17. HyperFM: An Efficient Hyperspectral Foundation Model with Spectral Grouping

    Apr 22, 2026Zahid Hassan Tushar, Sanjay PurushothamRemote SensingHyperspectral Imaging

  18. Pretrain Where? Investigating How Pretraining Data Diversity Impacts Geospatial Foundation Model Performance

    Apr 22, 2026Amandeep Kaur, Mirali Purohit, Gedeon Muhawenayo +2Geospatial Foundation ModelsGeospatial Representation Learning

  19. Global Offshore Wind Infrastructure: Deployment and Operational Dynamics from Dense Sentinel-1 Time Series

    Apr 22, 2026Thorsten Hoeser, Felix Bachofer, Claudia KuenzerTime Series ClassificationRemote Sensing

  20. Physics-Conditioned Synthesis of Internal Ice-Layer Thickness for Incomplete Layer Traces

    Apr 22, 2026Zesheng Liu, Maryam RahnemoonfarIncomplete Data ImputationRemote Sensing

  21. LunarDepthNet: Generation of Digital Elevation Models using Deep Learning and Monocular Satellite Images

    Apr 22, 2026Aaranay Aadi, Jai Gopal Singla, Amitabh +3U-NetMonocular Depth Estimation

  22. WildFireVQA: A Large-Scale Radiometric Thermal VQA Benchmark for Aerial Wildfire Monitoring

    Apr 22, 2026Mobin Habibpour, Niloufar Alipour Talemi, John Spodnik +2Thermal ImagingVisual Question Answering

  23. Online CS-based SAR Edge-Mapping

    Apr 21, 2026Conor Flynn, Radoslav Ivanov, Birsen YaziciEdge DetectionRemote Sensing

  24. HarmoniDiff-RS: Training-Free Diffusion Harmonization for Satellite Image Composition

    Apr 21, 2026Xiaoqi Zhuang, Jefersson A. Dos Santos, Jungong HanCompositional Image GenerationRemote Sensing

  25. Prompting Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Ship Instance Segmentation in SAR Imagery

    Apr 20, 2026Islam Mansour, Francescopaolo Sica, Michael SchmittInstance SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

  26. Self-Supervised Super-Resolution for Sentinel-5P Hyperspectral Images

    Apr 19, 2026Hyam Omar Ali, Antoine Crosnier, Romain Abraham +3Self-Supervised LearningRemote Sensing Image Super-Resolution

  27. MetaEarth3D: Unlocking World-scale 3D Generation with Spatially Scalable Generative Modeling

    Apr 19, 2026Jinqi Cao, Zhiping Yu, Baihong Lin +3Geospatial Foundation ModelsRemote Sensing

  28. DEM Refinement and Validation on the Lunar Surface Using Shape-from-Shading with Chandrayaan-2 OHRC Imagery

    Apr 19, 2026Aaranay Aadi, Jai Gopal Singla, Nitant DubeRemote Sensing

  29. Hyperspectral Unmixing Hierarchies

    Apr 18, 2026Joseph L. Garrett, P. S. Vishnu, Pauliina Salmi +4Non-Negative Matrix FactorizationRemote Sensing