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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TU4.R15: Foundation Models for Environmental Applications
Tuesday, 11 August, 16:15 - 17:30
Location: Jefferson West
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Ronny Hänsch, DLR and Dalton Lunga, ORNL
Track: AI and Big Data
Tue, 11 Aug, 16:15 - 16:30

TU4.R15.1: CHALLENGES AND A STAGED DESIGN FOR APPLYING ALPHAEARTH FOUNDATIONS TO SEAGRASS COVERAGE ESTIMATION
Kota Sato, Takashi Kobayashi, Yuta Nakano, Kirara Kotani, Masaki Hisada, NTT, Inc.
Tue, 11 Aug, 16:30 - 16:45

TU4.R15.2: SAM-Mosaic: Scaling SAM2 to Large Remote Sensing Imagery
Osmar Carvalho, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Junior, Anesmar Albuquerque, Daniel Silva, University of Brasília
Tue, 11 Aug, 16:45 - 17:00

TU4.R15.3: A Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning Model for Soil Moisture Retrieval from P-band PolSAR
Sam Khallaghi, Clark University; Anke Fluhrer, Thomas Jagdhuber, German Aerospace Center; Hamed Alemohammad, Clark University
Tue, 11 Aug, 17:00 - 17:15

TU4.R15.4: FOUNDATION AI MODELS FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ESTIMATION FROM PACE SATELLITE DATA
Zahid Hassan Tushar, Sanjay Purushotham, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Tue, 11 Aug, 17:15 - 17:30

TU4.R15.5: Crop Mapping for Indian Region with Geospatial Foundation Model
Kamal Das, Jagabondhu Hazra, Manikandan Padmanaban, Amith Singhee, Jaikrishnan Hari, Campbell Watson, Juan Bernabe Moreno, IBM Research; Karan Choudhary, Sunil Dubey, Preeti Tahlani, S Bandyopadhyay, Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre