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most citedImpacts of Social Distancing Policies on Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth in the US

197 citations · 403 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

Planetary Geospatial Foundation Models: A New Paradigm for Global Public Health

Arbaaz Muslim, Aviv Slobodkin, Katherine Wheeler-Martin +35

The efficacy of traditional disease prediction is limited by spatial gaps and temporal lags, which impact the timing and targets of resource deployments. Outbreaks escalate undetec…

cs.CV2026

RSRCC: A Remote Sensing Regional Change Comprehension Benchmark Constructed via Retrieval-Augmented Best-of-N Ranking

Roie Kazoom, Yotam Gigi, George Leifman +2

Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language. Existing remote sensing change captioning datasets typically des…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

On-the-Fly OVD Adaptation with FLAME: Few-shot Localization via Active Marginal-Samples Exploration

Yehonathan Refael, Amit Aides, Aviad Barzilai +5

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) models offer remarkable flexibility by detecting objects from arbitrary text queries. However, their zero-shot performance in specialized dom…

cs.LG2025

Application and Validation of Geospatial Foundation Model Data for the Prediction of Health Facility Programmatic Outputs -- A Case Study in Malawi

Lynn Metz, Rachel Haggard, Michael Moszczynski +14

The reliability of routine health data in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is often constrained by reporting delays and incomplete coverage, necessitating the exploration of…

cs.AI2025★ 3 cited

Earth AI: Unlocking Geospatial Insights with Foundation Models and Cross-Modal Reasoning

Aaron Bell, Amit Aides, Amr Helmy +57

Geospatial data offers immense potential for understanding our planet. However, the sheer volume and diversity of this data along with its varied resolutions, timescales, and spars…

cs.CV2025

Zero-Shot Multi-Spectral Learning: Reimagining a Generalist Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Model for Remote Sensing Applications

Ganesh Mallya, Yotam Gigi, Dahun Kim +4

Multi-spectral imagery plays a crucial role in diverse Remote Sensing applications including land-use classification, environmental monitoring and urban planning. These images are…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

A Recipe for Improving Remote Sensing VLM Zero Shot Generalization

Aviad Barzilai, Yotam Gigi, Amr Helmy +6

Foundation models have had a significant impact across various AI applications, enabling use cases that were previously impossible. Contrastive Visual Language Models (VLMs), in pa…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

General Geospatial Inference with a Population Dynamics Foundation Model

Mohit Agarwal, Mimi Sun, Chaitanya Kamath +31

Supporting the health and well-being of dynamic populations around the world requires governmental agencies, organizations and researchers to understand and reason over complex rel…

cs.CV2023★ 17 cited

High-Resolution Building and Road Detection from Sentinel-2

Wojciech Sirko, Emmanuel Asiedu Brempong, Juliana T. C. Marcos +9

Mapping buildings and roads automatically with remote sensing typically requires high-resolution imagery, which is expensive to obtain and often sparsely available. In this work we…

cs.SI2021

Vaccine Search Patterns Provide Insights into Vaccination Intent

Sean Malahy, Mimi Sun, Keith Spangler +20

Despite ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines, the proportion of fully vaccinated individuals remains suboptimal across much of the US. Rapid vaccination of additional people will prev…

cs.CR2021★ 8 cited

Google COVID-19 Vaccination Search Insights: Anonymization Process Description

Shailesh Bavadekar, Adam Boulanger, John Davis +22

This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the COVID-19 Vaccination Search Insights (published at http://goo.gle/covid19vaccinationinsights), a publ…

cs.CR2020★ 16 cited

Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.0)

Shailesh Bavadekar, Andrew Dai, John Davis +27

This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset (published at https://goo.gle/covid19sympt…

q-bio.PE2020★ 197 cited

Impacts of Social Distancing Policies on Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth in the US

Gregory A. Wellenius, Swapnil Vispute, Valeria Espinosa +26

Social distancing remains an important strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. However, the impacts of specific state-level policies on mobility and subseque…

cs.CR2020★ 157 cited

Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.1)

Ahmet Aktay, Shailesh Bavadekar, Gwen Cossoul +21

This document describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (published at http://google.com/covid…