arXiv AI

Agricultural Landscape Understanding At Country-Scale

arXiv:2411. 05359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Comprehensive agricultural landscape understanding is critical for addressing global challenges in food security, climate change, and resource management.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models for Agriculture Applications

Geospatial foundation models pretrained on satellite imagery promise broad generalization across remote sensing tasks and regions, but their geographic transferability has not been systematically tested, especially in agriculture applications. This paper presents a controlled benchmark that evaluates three models, Prithvi, SpectralGPT, and SatMAE, on multi-temporal crop segmentation and change detection across four U.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Fields of the Planet: Field Boundary Mapping Beyond 10m

arXiv:2607. 04449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Field-boundary maps support crop monitoring, irrigation planning, and yield estimation, but many smallholder parcels span only a few 10 m Sentinel-2 pixels.

By Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marcus, Hannah Kerner
arXiv AI
Jun 12

GeoNatureAgent Benchmark: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Environmental Geospatial Analysis Across Frontier and Open-Weight Foundation Models

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
arXiv AI
Jul 8

EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping

arXiv:2607. 06105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution RGB imagery acquired from low-altitude UAV surveys was processed through a modular pipeline incorporating transformer-based semantic segmentation, connected-component vegetation extraction, fine-grained species classification using a ConvNeXt architecture, and grid-based dominance scoring at 2x2m resolution.

By Innocent Onyenonachi, Peter J. Lawerance, Nadia Kanwal
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

From Foundation Embeddings to Cropland Maps: Label Efficiency, Temporal Transferability and Independent Human Validation

The study evaluates the use of frozen geospatial foundation embeddings (AlphaEarth) for mapping cultivated versus non‑cultivated land in Maine. Using 192 spatially separated patches and USDA Cropland Data Layer labels, a lightweight classifier achieved 93.7% overall accuracy without fine‑tuning, and a nearest‑class‑centroid rule reached 90.2%. A balanced sample of 60,000 labeled pixels was nearly as effective as the full 8.6 million‑pixel pool, and classifiers trained in one year remained accurate across 2018‑2023. In a blind human validation of 385 points, the AlphaEarth‑plus‑random‑forest map matched 95.3% of the consensus, outperforming the CDL reference (91.7%).

By Mohammad Ammar Mughees, Giovanni Montefoschi, Zhongxin Chen, Maria Antonia Brovelli
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations

The paper introduces FAIRY, a full-stack smart‑agriculture agent system deployed on a soybean research farm at Harbin Institute of Technology. FAIRY executes and evaluates end‑to‑end agronomic operations—from ridge preparation to storage—using an event‑driven world model that integrates machinery, sensors, drones, satellite data, weather, crop models, and historical yields. The system implements a comprehensive agentic stack and is used to benchmark nine state‑of‑the‑art agent controllers across 100 full‑season soybean scenarios, assessing success, spatiotemporal correctness, token cost, and edge‑device runtime.

By Ao Qu, Panagiotis Michelakis, Linyuan Han, Yiannis Hadjiyianni, Kun Ouyang, Konstantinos Siskos, Feng Li, Ran Meng, Jingchi Jiang, Dimitrios Stamoulis, Jie Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Tackling fluffy clouds: robust agricultural field boundary delineation from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite image time series

arXiv:2409.13568v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate delineation of agricultural field boundaries is essential for effective crop monitoring and resource management. However, competing method...

By Foivos I. Diakogiannis, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Jeff Wang, Gonzalo Mata, Dave Henry, Roger Lawes, Amy Parker, Peter Caccetta, Suzanne Furby, Rodrigo Ibata, Ondrej Hlinka, Jonathan Richetti, Kathryn Batchelor, Chris Herrmann, Andrew Toovey, John Taylor