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.
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.
The paper introduces a multimodal foundation model for lunar remote sensing, trained from scratch on SomBench—a dataset of nearly two million co‑registered tile bundles across 11 modalities at 1 m and 100 m resolutions. The model extends the TerraMind masked‑token architecture with lunar‑specific features such as explicit acquisition geometry and joint training of two spatial scales, and employs FlexiViT patch embeddings for adaptable patch sizes. Evaluation on crater detection, irregular mare patch segmentation, and polar ice prospectivity regression shows that the pretrained model matches or surpasses ImageNet‑pretrained baselines, with notable label efficiency and effective adaptation via LoRA.
arXiv:2608. 09350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been collecting high-resolution images (at around 0.
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.
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.
The paper presents a deep‑learning crater detection algorithm (CDA) based on the OWLv2 Vision Transformer, fine‑tuned with Low‑Rank Adaptation on a manually labeled IMPACT dataset. It optimizes a combined loss of CIoU for localization and contrastive loss for classification, achieving a maximum recall of 92.6% and precision of 71.4% on lunar images. The method demonstrates reliable crater detection under varied illumination and rugged terrain, supporting safer lunar landings.
The paper proposes a method to adapt the Depth Anything V2 (DAV2) zero‑shot relative depth model for estimating lunar surface height. By fine‑tuning DAV2 with publicly available stereophotogrammetry‑derived DEM data, the authors achieve a significant performance boost over the unadapted zero‑shot model. This improved estimator can provide more accurate relative height information useful for hazard detection in future ESA lunar landings.
arXiv:2608.29609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic segmentation is a crucial task for understanding Mars, the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. However, it is challenging because the...
arXiv:2609.22379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution orbital imagery offers a rich record of the Martian surface, but sparse geological labels limit supervised representation learning. We...
Hyperspectral remote sensing has advanced across diverse deep learning paradigms, including spectral spatial CNNs, Vision Transformers, Mamba, graph neural networks, Kolmogorov Arnold networks, and se...
arXiv:2607. 24532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the production of large-scale geospatial maps derived from Earth observation (EO) data, driven largely by advances in machine learning (ML) and large computing infrastructure.