IGARSS 2026 || Washington, D.C. || 9

TU3.R15: Foundation Models & Pretraining for Earth Observation

Tuesday, 11 August, 13:45 - 15:00

Location: Jefferson West

Session Type: Oral

Session Co-Chairs: Ronny Hänsch, DLR and Dalton Lunga, ORNL

Track: AI and Big Data

Tue, 11 Aug, 13:45 - 14:00

TU3.R15.1: A Roadmap for Unified Multi-Modal Foundation Models in Earth Observation

Kumar Ankur, Nidhi Jha, Sujit Roy, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Rahul Ramachandran, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tue, 11 Aug, 14:00 - 14:15

TU3.R15.2: CROSS-SCALE PRETRAINING: ENHANCING SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING FOR LOW-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

John Waithaka, Gustave Bwirayesu, Moise Busogi, Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Tue, 11 Aug, 14:15 - 14:30

TU3.R15.3: Low-Rank Adaptation of Geospatial Foundation Models for Wildfire Mapping Using Sentinel-2 Data

Ali Shibli, Andrea Nascetti, Yifang Ban, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Tue, 11 Aug, 14:30 - 14:45

TU3.R15.4: FINE-TUNING NASA PRITHVI EO V2.0 FOUNDATION MODEL FOR DYNAMIC IRRIGATION MAPPING

Ehsan Jalilvand, Sujay Kumar, NASA goddard space flight center; Hamed Alemohammad, Clark University; Mohammad Fotouhi, John Deere co; Sam Khallaghi, Clark University