The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been collecting high-resolution images (at around 0. 5-2 meters per pixel linearly with its Narrow Angle Camera) of the Moon since 2009, amassing a large dataset of images and offering researchers the opportunity to study the surface of the Moon at unprecedented scale.
arXiv:2607. 03644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decades of orbital missions have produced multi-modal remote sensing data for the Moon, spanning optical imagery, spectroscopy, thermal emission, radar, gravity, and elemental composition.
By Ayush Prasad, Swarnalee Mazumder
arXiv:2607. 22408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The renewed global focus on lunar exploration, driven by the prospect of in-situ resource utilization and a sustained human presence on the Moon, has created growing demand for accurate, large-scale characterization of the lunar surface.
By Marc Girona-Mata, Jakob Gawlikowski, Sumit Goski, Gautier Bardi de Fourtou, Valentin T. Bickel, Ben Moseley, Abigail Calzada-Diaz, Sylvester Kaczmarek, Ra\'ul Ramos-Poll\'an
arXiv:2606. 14776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate position estimation is crucial for the successful implementation of future lunar landings using autonomous vehicles, especially in dangerous environments with sparse terrain features.
By Batu Candan, Simone Servadio
arXiv:2601. 18823v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data.
By Alejandro Ascarate, Leo Lebrat, Rodrigo Santa Cruz, Clinton Fookes, Olivier Salvado
arXiv:2504. 06176v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation Models, which leverage large neural networks pre-trained on unlabelled data before fine-tuning for specific tasks, are increasingly being applied to specialised domains.
By Ian Groves, Andrew Campbell, James Fernandes, Diego Ram\'irez Rodr\'iguez, Paul Murray, Massimiliano Vasile, Victoria Nockles
arXiv:2505. 03509v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anomaly detection in large datasets is essential in astronomy and computer vision.
By Pablo G\'omez, Laslo E. Ruhberg, Maria Teresa Nardone, David O'Ryan
arXiv:2606. 05103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), set for launch as early as September 2026, will conduct wide-field infrared imaging surveys with unprecedented spatial resolution and cadence, enabling the discovery of millions of astronomical transients.
By Karan Gandhi, Ashish A. Mahabal, Jacob E. Jencson, Russ R. Laher, Ben Rusholme, Lin Yan, Ryan M. Lau, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Mansi M. Kasliwal
arXiv:2608. 09276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Planetary geology relies on historical, interpretive reasoning to reconstruct past events from diverse observations.
By Tom Sander, Kay Wohlfarth, Christian W\"ohler
arXiv:2606. 10069v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper we build upon a previous study in which we demonstrated, using XGBoost and earthquake catalogue data from Japan and Chile, that a set of 60 seismic statistical features (SSFs) had much greater predictive value than a set of 428 generic time series features from the tsfresh package.
By Wei Quan, Denise Gorse
Precise rover localization is a prerequisite for autonomous lunar exploration, yet the absence of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and the cumulative drift of local localization methods severely constrain long-range missions. Cross-view localization provides a promising drift-free global solution by matching rover-view and satellite-view imagery.
arXiv:2606. 10069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper we build upon a previous study in which we demonstrated, using XGBoost and earthquake catalogue data from Japan and Chile, that a set of 60 seismic statistical features (SSFs) had much greater predictive value than a set of 428 generic time series features from the tsfresh package.
By Wei Quan, Denise Gorse