Open-vocabulary remote sensing segmentation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that enables pixel-level recognition of arbitrary categories specified by natural language, including classes unseen during training. However, geospatial domain shifts caused by heterogeneous regions, spatial resolutions, and acquisition platforms weaken visual-text matching and limit cross-dataset generalization.
arXiv:2509. 12040v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and the domain gap between natural and RS images.
By Bingyu Li, Haocheng Dong, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2608. 07411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the context of geodata, existing Large Language Models have often been studied in a homogeneous setting, which has considerably limited insights into their generalization capabilities.
By Rodrigo Ferreira Rodrigues, Karim Radouane, Jose G Moreno, Lynda Tamine
arXiv:2607. 02387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: NASA and its data centers hold thousands of geoscience datasets and tools like Worldview, Giovanni, the Science Discovery Engine, and Harmony.
By Minghan Yu, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi, Yixin Wen, Haizhao Yang
arXiv:2608. 04792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate estimation of Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) from satellite imagery is essential for the large-scale monitoring of carbon stocks, yet it remains a challenging regression task at global scale.
By Ghjulia Sialellia, Linus Scheibenreif, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler
arXiv:2512. 23020v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes.
By Wenyuan Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhao Wang, Zhou Wei, Ting Huang, Fang Zhao, Jian Yang
arXiv:2603. 14342v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern agricultural data is sourced from diverse platforms and spans multiple spatial scales, ranging from ground-level close-up photography to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial observation and satellite remote sensing imagery.
By Jiarui Zhang, Junqi Hu, Zurong Mai, Yang Liu, Yuhang Chen, Shuohong Lou, Henglian Huang, Hong Cheng, Lingyuan Zhao, Jianxi Huang, Yutong Lu, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng
Beyond perception, reasoning is essential in remote sensing for advanced interpretation, inference, and decision-making. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled tool-augmented agents that leverage external tools to perform complex analytical tasks.
arXiv:2504. 11171v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TerraMind, the first any-to-any generative, multimodal foundation model for Earth observation (EO).
By Johannes Jakubik, Felix Yang, Benedikt Blumenstiel, Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefano Maurogiovanni, Jente Bosmans, Nikolaos Dionelis, Valerio Marsocci, Niklas Kopp, Rahul Ramachandran, Paolo Fraccaro, Thomas Brunschwiler, Gabriele Cavallaro, Juan Bernabe-Moreno, Nicolas Long\'ep\'e
arXiv:2606. 12821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental scientists spend disproportionate effort on data wrangling rather than analysis, and AI agents that automate geospatial workflows remain unvalidated: no benchmark evaluates agents operating through structured tool calling against real APIs.
By Gabriel Diaz-Ireland, Diego Prieto-Herr\'aez, Mario Garc\'ia Peces, Javier Vel\'azquez, Devika Jain
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic understanding but remain unreliable in metric spatial reasoning, particularly when queries require comparing multiple instances of the same object category. We study this problem through the Closest-Instance Distance Query (CIDQ), where a model must identify the nearest visible candidate to a unique reference object and estimate their gravity-aligned floor-plane distance.
arXiv:2607. 24856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social media imagery (SMI) provides timely and fine-grained ground perspectives that are valuable for situational awareness and emergency response.
By Wenping Yin, Ziqi Liu, Naixia Mou, Weijia Li, Danfeng Hong, Hao Li