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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
THP1.PB: The prospect of Remote Sensing Foundation Models: From Generation to Application
Thursday, 13 August, 09:45 - 11:00
Location: Poster Area B
Session Type: Poster
Session Co-Chairs: Jing Ling, Guangdong University of Technology and Rui Liu,
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.1: Foundation Model Embeddings for Subsurface Soil Carbon Estimation: Beyond Optical Imagery
Bishal Roy, Vasit Sagan, Cagri Gul, Saint Louis University, United States; Nadia Shakoor, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.2: Comparing Fine-Tuned SatMAE and Prithvi with CNN and ResNet-50 for Classifying Non-Indigenous Invasive Aquatic Species Using UAS Imagery
Gamze Erdem, The University of Tennessee, United States; Sathishkumar Samiappan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States; Gray Turnage, Mississippi State University, United States; Adam Zylka, Maxwell Solter, The University of Vermont, United States
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.3: Structured Reinforcement Learning for Reliable Tool Invocation in Remote Sensing Agents
Zijian Yu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Zhiwei Wei, Hunan Normal University, China; Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Jiuniu Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China; Wenjia Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.4: DINOV3 FOR TEMPORAL CHANGE DETECTION IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY
Jesse Bressers, Xavier Neyt, Royal Military Academy, Belgium; Aleksandra Pižurica, Ghent University, Belgium
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.5: GENERALIZABLE CROSS-REGIONAL LANDSLIDE DETECTION FROM OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING
Delong Wang, Xiaochuan Tang, Xiaochuang Yan, Chuancong Liao, Chengdu University of Technology, China; Guowu Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Daniel Kibirige, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Yanmei Hu, Chengdu University of Technology, China; Alessandro Novellino, British Geological Survey, United Kingdom; Sansar Raj Meena, University of Padova, Italy
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.6: ASYMMETRIC VISUAL--SEMANTIC COMPLEMENTARY FRAMEWORK FOR UAV SMALL OBJECT DETECTION
Xiaojun Yang, Tuo Li, Jing Ling, Guangdong University of Technology, China; Rui Liu, The University of Hong Kong, China; Xin Gu, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China; Hongsheng Zhang, The University of Hong Kong, China
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.7: Akupara: Peta-Scale Pretraining for Geospatial Foundational Models
Christopher Funk, David DePauw, Kitware, United States; Charith Wickrema, Eliza Mace, MITRE, United States; Declan Kutscher, University of California, Berkeley, United States; Heidys Cabrera, Shivangi Sarkar, Eric Hughes, Guido Zarrella, MITRE, United States; Matt Leotta, Kitware, United States; Ritwik Gupta, University of Maryland, United States
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.8: TERRASTRUCT: GEOMETRY-AWARE VISUAL DIFFUSION FOR HIGH-FIDELITY SATELLITE-TO-MAP TRANSLATION
Ma Yuchen, Yuan Ruining, Liu Tianzhu, Gu Yanfeng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.9: HIGH‑RESOLUTION DOWNSCALING OF CLIMATE FIELDS OVER THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES USING PRITHVI WXC FOUNDATION MODEL FEATURES AND ADVANCED SUPER-RESOLUTION ARCHITECTURES
Eugene Yu, George Mason University, United States; Mahabaleshwara Hegde, NASA, United States; Liping Di, Peisheng Zhao, Suhung Shen, Zhong Liu, George Mason University, United States; Armin Mehrabian, ADNET Systems Inc, United States; Chen Zhang, Hui Li, Hanxi Li, George Mason University, United States
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.10: Benchmarking AlphaEarth Embeddings for Land Cover Mapping in Agricultural Landscapes
Stelios P. Neophytides, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
Poster Area B

THP1.PB.11: IRREGULARITY-ROBUST CROP MONITORING VIA SPATIOTEMPORAL MASKED AUTOENCODERS
Meziane Iftene, Mohammed El Amin Larabi, Lina Abbedou, Agence Spatiale Algérienne, Algeria