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most citedTESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis

40 citations · 49 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

PiCo: Physics-Informed Concept Probing for Geo-Foundation Models

Yihang She, Andrew Blake, Jianbo Qi +1

Geo-foundation models (GFMs) are typically evaluated by downstream task predictive performance, revealing little about which physical features they are sensitive to or use in predi…

cs.LG2026

Geospatial embeddings detect old-growth forests but buffered spatial validation narrows their advantage over Sentinel features

Thomas Ratsakatika, Mihai Zotta, Srinivasan Keshav +1

Old-growth forests develop over centuries under minimal anthropogenic disturbance, producing structurally complex and biodiverse stands. In Europe, protecting them requires mapping…

cs.CV2026

Annual Earth-observation embeddings encode wildfire disturbance and support simplified burned area mapping

Jovana Knezevic, Clement Atzberger, Zhengpeng Feng +3

Medium-resolution (10-30 m) burned area mapping is vital for monitoring wildfires and their impacts, but remains difficult to scale. Existing methods require either curated fire-sp…

cs.HC2026

How Usable Are Geospatial Foundation Models? A Systematic Evaluation of 89 Models

Robin Young, Artyom Gabtraupov, Kenzy Soror +1

Geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs) offer transformative potential for environmental monitoring, yet adoption among ecologists is uneven. Most evaluations are model-centric, focu…

cs.CV2026★ 6 cited

TESSERA v2: Scaling Pixel-wise Earth Foundation Models

Zhengpeng Feng, Sadiq Jaffer, Ira Shokar +12

Pixel-wise Earth-observation (EO) foundation models are now achieving state-of-the-art performance via generated spatial embeddings. However, how these models scale and how best to…

cs.LG2026

Neural Processes Maintain Calibrated Biomass Estimates Across Spatiotemporal Gaps and Disturbance

Robin Young, Srinivasan Keshav

Monitoring deforestation-driven carbon emissions requires both spatially explicit and temporally continuous estimates of aboveground biomass density (AGBD) with calibrated uncertai…

cs.LG2026

Below-ground Fungal Biodiversity Can be Monitored Using Self-Supervised Learning Satellite Features

Robin Young, Michael E. Van Nuland, E. Toby Kiers +4

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to terrestrial ecosystem functioning. Yet monitoring their biodiversity at landscape scales is often unfeasible due to time and cost constraints. Curren…

cs.LG2026

Interpolation of GEDI Biomass Estimates with Calibrated Uncertainty Quantification

Robin Young, Srinivasan Keshav

Wall-to-wall biomass density estimation from NASA's GEDI mission requires interpolating sparse LIDAR observations across heterogeneous landscapes. While Random Forest and XGBoost a…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Embedding -based Crop Type Classification in the Groundnut Basin of Senegal

Madeline C. Lisaius, Srinivasan Keshav, Andrew Blake +1

Crop type maps from satellite remote sensing are important tools for food security, local livelihood support and climate change mitigation in smallholder regions of the world, but…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Up Forest Vision with Synthetic Data

Yihang She, Andrew Blake, David Coomes +1

Accurate tree segmentation is a key step in extracting individual tree metrics from forest laser scans, and is essential to understanding ecosystem functions in carbon cycling and…

cs.LG2025★ 40 cited

TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis

Zhengpeng Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer +11

Satellite Earth-observation (EO) time series in the optical and microwave ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum are often irregular due to orbital patterns and cloud obstruction.…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

PILA: Physics-Informed Low Rank Augmentation for Interpretable Earth Observation

Yihang She, Andrew Blake, Clement Atzberger +2

Physically meaningful representations are essential for Earth Observation (EO), yet existing physical models are often simplified and incomplete. This leads to discrepancies betwee…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

From Spectra to Biophysical Insights: End-to-End Learning with a Biased Radiative Transfer Model

Yihang She, Clement Atzberger, Andrew Blake +1

Advances in machine learning have boosted the use of Earth observation data for climate change research. Yet, the interpretability of machine-learned representations remains a chal…