arXiv AI By Ethan D. Frakes, Amy Kvien, Rishabh Kundu, Redad Mehdi, Van D. Tran, Vibha S. Mandayam, Kristopher O. Davis, Erika I. Barcelos, Roger H. French, Yinghui Wu, Mengjie Li

GeoOutageBench: Benchmarking Ambiguity-aware, Ontology-grounded Geospatiotemporal KGQA for Multimodal Power Outage and Resilience Analysis

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Decoding the Disaster: Multi-Task Geospatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models and Crowdsourced Imagery for Disaster Mapping

The paper introduces GRDisaster, a multi-task geospatial reasoning framework that leverages vision‑language models to interpret, geolocalize, and assess damage in crowdsourced disaster imagery. It builds on a new benchmark dataset of 26,340 images from PhotoMappers, linking volunteer geographic information, street‑view imagery, and remote sensing data across multiple disaster events from 2018 to 2024. GRDisaster combines deterministic and probabilistic cross‑view geolocalization with multi‑view fusion, and introduces spatial reasoning indicators to validate cross‑view matches and quantify disaster severity using expert‑verified annotations.

By Wenping Yin, Fabian Desuer, Ziqi Liu, Naixia Mou, Weijia Li, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Hao Li
arXiv AI
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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 7

STRATOS: Bridging the Symbolic-to-Numeric Gap in Spatio-Temporal Text-to-SQL for Meteorological Data

arXiv:2607. 03501v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation program, produces petabytes of Earth observation and climate data, offering immense potential for research, policy, and applications.

By Yi Zhang, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Jonathan F\"urst, Fabio Scherrer, Antonis Bezes, Vassiliki Kotroni, Kurt Stockinger