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Anaximander: Interactively Running Geospatial Deep Learning Models on Any Compute Backend
Satej S. Soman, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw A. Tadesse +5
Applying deep learning models to satellite imagery from within geographic information systems (GIS) remains high-friction for remote sensing practitioners. Models arrive in incompa…
Efficient Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Killer Whales Using a Two-Stage Detection and Ecotype Classification Cascade
Daniela Ruiz, Manuel Castellote, Zhongqi Miao +5
Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales is particularly important for conservation of the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population, but requires accurate models th…
Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys
Isai Daniel Chacón, Zhongqi Miao, Bruno Demuro +9
Automated aerial wildlife surveys increasingly rely on deep learning, yet standard object detectors require bounding-box annotations, reported to be up to seven times slower and th…
Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carl Chalmers, Bruno Demuro Segundo +14
Global biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, yet the tools available to monitor and protect ecosystems remain limited by constraints in power, connectivity, and accessi…
A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring
Daniela Ruiz, Juan Sebastián Ulloa, Zhongqi Miao +11
Passive acoustic monitoring enables continuous, non-invasive biodiversity assessment across diverse ecosystems. The scale of these datasets has driven the adoption of machine learn…
GeoAI Agency Primitives
Akram Zaytar, Rohan Sawahn, Caleb Robinson +5
We present ongoing research on agency primitives for GeoAI assistants -- core capabilities that connect Foundation models to the artifact-centric, human-in-the-loop workflows where…
TEMPO: Global Temporal Building Density and Height Estimation from Satellite Imagery
Tammy Glazer, Gilles Q. Hacheme, Akram Zaytar +9
We present TEMPO, a global, temporally resolved dataset of building density and height derived from high-resolution satellite imagery using deep learning models. We pair building f…
Where are the Whales: A Human-in-the-loop Detection Method for Identifying Whales in High-resolution Satellite Imagery
Caleb Robinson, Kimberly T. Goetz, Christin B. Khan +4
Effective monitoring of whale populations is critical for conservation, but traditional survey methods are expensive and difficult to scale. While prior work has shown that whales…
Machine Learning for Sustainable Rice Production: Region-Scale Monitoring of Water-Saving Practices in Punjab, India
Ando Shah, Rajveer Singh, Akram Zaytar +6
Rice cultivation supplies half the world's population with staple food, while also being a major driver of freshwater depletion--consuming roughly a quarter of global freshwater--a…
Optimizing Cloud-to-GPU Throughput for Deep Learning With Earth Observation Data
Akram Zaytar, Caleb Robinson, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse +5
Training deep learning models on petabyte-scale Earth observation (EO) data requires separating compute resources from data storage. However, standard PyTorch data loaders cannot k…
GeoVision Labeler: Zero-Shot Geospatial Classification with Vision and Language Models
Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson +3
Classifying geospatial imagery remains a major bottleneck for applications such as disaster response and land-use monitoring-particularly in regions where annotated data is scarce…
Core-Set Selection for Data-efficient Land Cover Segmentation
Keiller Nogueira, Akram Zaytar, Wanli Ma +9
The increasing accessibility of remotely sensed data and their potential to support large-scale decision-making have driven the development of deep learning models for many Earth O…
Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery
Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Allen Kim +6
We present a comprehensive global temporal dataset of commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) farms and onshore wind turbines, derived from high-resolution satellite imagery analyzed qu…
FLAVARS: A Multimodal Foundational Language and Vision Alignment Model for Remote Sensing
Isaac Corley, Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Anthony Ortiz +4
Remote sensing imagery is dense with objects and contextual visual information. There is a recent trend to combine paired satellite images and text captions for pretraining perform…
Sims: An Interactive Tool for Geospatial Matching and Clustering
Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson +6
Acquiring, processing, and visualizing geospatial data requires significant computing resources, especially for large spatio-temporal domains. This challenge hinders the rapid disc…
Local vs. Global: Local Land-Use and Land-Cover Models Deliver Higher Quality Maps
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Charles Mwangi +7
In 2023, 58.0% of the African population experienced moderate to severe food insecurity, with 21.6% facing severe food insecurity. Land-use and land-cover maps provide crucial insi…
PGRID: Power Grid Reconstruction in Informal Developments Using High-Resolution Aerial Imagery
Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Amrita Gupta, Duncan Kebut +5
As of 2023, a record 117 million people have been displaced worldwide, more than double the number from a decade ago [22]. Of these, 32 million are refugees under the UNHCR mandate…
Distribution Shifts at Scale: Out-of-distribution Detection in Earth Observation
Burak Ekim, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson +4
Training robust deep learning models is crucial in Earth Observation, where globally deployed models often face distribution shifts that degrade performance, especially in low-data…
Fields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset For Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation
Hannah Kerner, Snehal Chaudhari, Aninda Ghosh +9
Crop field boundaries are foundational datasets for agricultural monitoring and assessments but are expensive to collect manually. Machine learning (ML) methods for automatically e…
Analyzing Decades-Long Environmental Changes in Namibia Using Archival Aerial Photography and Deep Learning
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Quentin Hacheme +5
This study explores object detection in historical aerial photographs of Namibia to identify long-term environmental changes. Specifically, we aim to identify key objects -- Waterh…
Bootstrapping Rare Object Detection in High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
Akram Zaytar, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Q. Hacheme +6
Rare object detection is a fundamental task in applied geospatial machine learning, however is often challenging due to large amounts of high-resolution satellite or aerial imagery…
Weak Labeling for Cropland Mapping in Africa
Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse +4
Cropland mapping can play a vital role in addressing environmental, agricultural, and food security challenges. However, in the context of Africa, practical applications are often…
Seeing the roads through the trees: A benchmark for modeling spatial dependencies with aerial imagery
Caleb Robinson, Isaac Corley, Anthony Ortiz +3
Fully understanding a complex high-resolution satellite or aerial imagery scene often requires spatial reasoning over a broad relevant context. The human object recognition system…
Rapid building damage assessment workflow: An implementation for the 2023 Rolling Fork, Mississippi tornado event
Caleb Robinson, Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Anthony Ortiz +7
Rapid and accurate building damage assessments from high-resolution satellite imagery following a natural disaster is essential to inform and optimize first responder efforts. Howe…