arXiv:2608. 07472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wildfire prediction models typically discretize study areas into uniform grids, ignoring the heterogeneous spatial distribution of ignitions.
By Nicolas Caron, Christophe Guyeux, Hassan Noura, Benjamin Aynes
arXiv:2608. 09325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Newly triggered landslides rarely carry immediate annotations, so cross-domain transferability determines the value of landslide mapping for emergency response and regional risk assessment.
By Zhihang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jinlin Wu, Hao Li
Newly triggered landslides rarely carry immediate annotations, so cross-domain transferability determines the value of landslide mapping for emergency response and regional risk assessment. Vision foundation models have strengthened representational transfer, yet on unseen regions, events, and data sources they still generate high-confidence false alarms.
arXiv:2609.06959v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: 3D point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for real-world spatial understanding, yet the prohibitive cost of human annotations motivates unsup...
By Zhenghao Zhang, Xinjie Wang, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Hanyun Wang
arXiv:2510. 21112v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-definition 3D city maps enable city planning and change detection, which is essential for municipal compliance, map maintenance, and asset monitoring, including both built structures and urban greenery.
By Hezam Albaqami, Haitian Wang, Xinyu Wang, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zainy M. Malakan, Abdullah M. Algamdi, Mohammed H. Alghamdi, Ajmal Mian
arXiv:2607. 01621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-scale rainfall reconstruction is critical for urban flood modeling, but real rainfall sensing systems observe the field through incompatible spatial supports: gauges measure points, microwave links measure paths, and radar/satellite products measure gridded areas.
By Low Jun Yu, Niramay Kachhadiya, Herath Mudiyanselage Viraj Vidura Herath, Sanka Rasnayaka, Lucy Amanda Marshall
arXiv:2606. 11534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban heat is amplified by impermeable surfaces and heterogeneous built environments, yet street-level variability remains difficult to quantify because multi-sensor observations are rarely available in consistent, analysis-ready form at the necessary spatiotemporal scales.
By Jonathan Starfeldt, Maria J. Molina, Alexander Kerr, Adam Yang, Thomas R. H. Holmes, Christopher R. Hain
The paper introduces an adaptive region‑dividing strategy that projects a 3D point cloud onto a bird’s‑eye‑view plane to detect building regions, then back‑projects bounding boxes to create structure‑aligned training blocks for unified scene‑level evaluation. It also proposes a fine‑grained classification model using a point transformer classifier and a spatially‑supervised contrastive loss to improve inter‑class discriminability, addressing class imbalance with a weighted cross‑entropy. Experiments on UrbanBIS and STPLS3D datasets show the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art approaches in both building instance segmentation and fine‑grained classification.
By Weiyuan Zhang, Qi Zhang, Hui Huang
arXiv:2607. 16050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pluvial (rainfall-driven) flooding accounts for 45% of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims in the United States and is harder to predict than its riverine and coastal counterparts, with existing approaches limited to coarse resolution, regional domains, or computationally intensive process-based models unsuitable for daily continental-scale use.
By Yuya Kawakami, Daniel Cayan, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma, Tom Corringham
DeepC4 is a deep learning-based spatial disaggregation method that uses local census statistics as cluster-level constraints and incorporates multiple conditional label relationships in a multitask learning framework. Applied to Rwandan urban morphology, it achieves macro‑F1 scores of 0.63, 0.78, and 0.45 for roof, wall, and height prediction, respectively, and estimates national dwelling and occupant counts within about 1.1% error compared to census records. The approach outperforms existing GEM and METEOR methods and covers 32‑49% more 500‑meter grid pixels across provinces.
By Joshua Dimasaka, Christian Gei{\ss}, Emily So
arXiv:2608.20548v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Disaster damage is spatial: buildings rarely fail in isolation. Yet using spatial context for damage classification remains surprisingly underexplore...
By Fuad Hasan, Chul Min Yeum
The paper presents an agentic framework that uses a large vision‑language model to refine hyperspectral unmixing results from existing modular pipelines. By iteratively gathering spectral and spatial evidence through tools such as spectral‑library retrieval and abundance‑map visualization, the agent merges or discards endmembers and re‑estimates abundances. Experiments on HYDICE Urban, Jasper Ridge, and Stonewall Playa datasets show consistent improvements in endmember cardinality and overall decomposition quality across multiple pipelines, while remaining competitive with end‑to‑end methods.
By Micha{\l} Cholewa, Luca Ciampi, Nicola Messina, Przemys{\l}aw G{\l}omb, Giuseppe Amato