The paper introduces ICIBS, a deep‑learning approach that enhances ice‑boundary segmentation by incorporating additional spatial and geo‑spatial context into the model. It reports state‑of‑the‑art performance on the IceAnatomy benchmark, achieving mean errors of 10.9 m (FAU subset) and 43.4 m (CReSIS subset), and demonstrates strong generalisation to new Patagonia data, outperforming baselines by 49.6 %. The authors provide the model code and dataset publicly on GitHub and Zenodo.
By Marcel Dreier, Dakota Pyles, Nora Gourmelon, Moritz Koch, Fei Wu, Thorsten Seehaus, Matthias Braun, Andreas Maier, Vincent Christlein
arXiv:2512.12142v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerated rate due to processes that are not fully understood and hard to measure. The distributio...
By Bj\"orn L\"utjens, Patrick Alexander, Raf Antwerpen, Til Widmann, Guido Cervone, Marco Tedesco
arXiv:2604. 09922v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Subsurface stratigraphy contains important spatio-temporal information about accumulation, deformation, and layer formation in polar ice sheets.
By Zesheng Liu, Maryam Rahnemoonfar
arXiv:2609.16347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sea-ice type prediction is important for climate monitoring, maritime navigation, and decision-making in polar regions. The main source of label data f...
By Samira Alkaee Taleghan, Younghyun Koo, Andrew P. Barrett, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Cryo-Bench is a new benchmark that evaluates foundation models for cryosphere mapping, comprising six semantic‑segmentation datasets across five cryospheric components (supraglacial debris, glacial lakes, sea ice, calving fronts, and Antarctic ice‑shelf extent). The benchmark includes multispectral, RGB, and SAR observations from under‑represented regions and tests thirteen geo‑foundation models alongside U‑Net and Vision Transformer baselines. Results show that with frozen encoders U‑Net slightly outperforms TerraMind, but the difference is not statistically significant; fine‑tuning with learning‑rate optimization can dramatically improve performance for some models, while in few‑shot scenarios several foundation models retain over 90 % of their full‑label accuracy.
By Saurabh Kaushik, Lalit Maurya, Beth Tellman, Swalpa Kumar Roy, Valerio Marsocci, Gustau Camps-Valls, Jocelyn Chanussot
arXiv:2607. 04117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ERA5 seasonal climate variables contain predictive information about future glacier retreat beyond what satellite imagery alone provides, yet existing deep learning methods focus on mapping current boundaries rather than forecasting future ones.
By Arunkumar Ramachandran
arXiv:2606. 06524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and scalable flood mapping remains challenging due to limited ground observations, heterogeneous terrain conditions, and the difficulty of enforcing hydrodynamic consistency within data-driven models.
By Tewodros Syum Gebre, Jagrati Talreja, Leila Hashemi-Beni
arXiv:2504. 08909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital elevation models derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data over glacial and snow-covered regions often exhibit systematic elevation errors, commonly termed "penetration bias.
By Islam Mansour, Georg Fischer, Ronny Haensch, Irena Hajnsek
arXiv:2606. 31609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radar sensors provide reliable perception under adverse weather and lighting conditions, but their sparse, noisy, and weakly semantic measurements make dense semantic segmentation challenging.
By Ali Zia, Muhammad Umer Ramzan, Abdelwahed Khamis, Usman Ali, Abdul Rehman
arXiv:2606. 09959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precipitation nowcasting is increasingly being approached with deep learning models that learn directly from recent radar observations.
By Gijs van Nieuwkoop, Siamak Mehrkanoon
arXiv:2608. 04706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monitoring of offshore wind energy infrastructure life cycles, especially during the deployment phase, is an important contribution for stakeholders to make informed decisions in a phase of increasing deployment activities.
By Thorsten Hoeser, Felix Bachofer, Claudia Kuenzer
arXiv:2609.24591v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sea ice forecasts are issued several days ahead, allowing errors to accumulate while new, often sparse sea ice concentration (SIC) observations become...
By Tianshuo Zhang, Xianglei Xing, Aowen Yang, Jia Gao, Wenzhe Zhai, ShanShan Liu