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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH3.R10: The prospect of Remote Sensing Foundation Models: From Generation to Application (1/2)
Thursday, 13 August, 13:45 - 15:00
Location: Gunston
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Jing Ling, Guangdong University of Technology and Rui Liu,
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Thu, 13 Aug, 13:45 - 14:00

TH3.R10.1: ECOLOGICAL MAPPING WITH GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION MODELS
Craig Mahlasi, Gciniwe Baloyi, Zaheed Gaffoor, Levente Klein, Anne Jones, Etienne Vos, Michal Muszynski, Geoffrey Dawson, Campbell Watson, International Business Machines, South Africa
Thu, 13 Aug, 14:00 - 14:15

TH3.R10.2: IMPACT OF SYNTHETIC DATA ON DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR EARTH OBSERVATION: PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL DETECTION CASE STUDY
Enes Hisam, GMV, United Kingdom; Jesus Gimeno, University of Valencia, Spain; David Miraut, GMV, Spain; Manolo Pérez-Aixendri, Marcos Fernández, University of Valencia, Spain; Rossana Gini, Raúl Rodríguez, GMV, United Kingdom; Gabriele Meoni, European Space Agency, Italy; Dursun Zafer Seker, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Thu, 13 Aug, 14:15 - 14:30

TH3.R10.3: APPLYING A FRONTIER EARTH-OBSERVING FOUNDATION MODEL TO MONITOR THE BOREAL-TUNDRA VEGETATION GRADIENT IN ALASKA
Melanie Frost, Paul Montesano, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Matthew Macander, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., United States; Jordan Caraballo-Vega, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Gerald Frost, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., United States; Jian Li, Mark Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 14:30 - 14:45

TH3.R10.4: SatVision-Pix4D: Understanding the Impact of Stratification Strategies in Pretraining A Spatiotemporal Foundation Model for Cloud and Convection
Jordan Caraballo-Vega, Jie Gong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Jian Li, InuTeq, LLC, United States; Mark Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Greg Elsaesser, Jingbo Wu, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States; Leah Ding, American University, United States; Seneca Oehrle, Stephen Zhang, Sidh Jaddu, NASA Space Club Scholars, United States; Tyler Summers, Science and Technology Corp, United States; Dong Wu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 14:45 - 15:00

TH3.R10.5: SPECTM: SPECTRAL TARGETED MASKING FOR TRUSTWORTHY FOUNDATION MODELS
Syed Usama Imtiaz, Mitra Nasr Azadani, Nasrin Alamdari, Florida State University, United States