The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement

The paper demonstrates that Earth observation (EO) models can be automatically constructed and refined by a general-purpose coding agent when provided with a harness (defining permissible tools) and a verifier (defining success criteria). By casting any verifiable EO task—using labeled benchmarks, independent sensors, physical models, or repeated observations—as such a harness-verifier pair, the agent recursively improves its own outputs. On four EO benchmarks covering optical, SAR, and multispectral time-series imagery, the agent-built models outperform state‑of‑the‑art methods while retaining most accuracy with only about 1 % of the training labels.

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