5 papers
Localized, High-resolution Geographic Representations with Slepian Functions
Arjun Rao, Ruth Crasto, Tessa Ooms +3
Geographic data is fundamentally local. Disease outbreaks cluster in population centers, ecological patterns emerge along coastlines, and economic activity concentrates within coun…
Measuring the Intrinsic Dimension of Earth Representations
Arjun Rao, Marc RuÃwurm, Konstantin Klemmer +1
Within the context of representation learning for Earth observation, geographic Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) embed low-dimensional location inputs (longitude, latitude) i…
From General to Specialized: The Need for Foundational Models in Agriculture
Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Aike Potze +4
Food security remains a global concern as population grows and climate change intensifies, demanding innovative solutions for sustainable agricultural productivity. Recent advances…
SAMSelect: A Spectral Index Search for Marine Debris Visualization using Segment Anything
Joost van Dalen, Yuki M. Asano, Marc Russwurm
This work proposes SAMSelect, an algorithm to obtain a salient three-channel visualization for multispectral images. We develop SAMSelect and show its use for marine scientists vis…
AirCast: Improving Air Pollution Forecasting Through Multi-Variable Data Alignment
Vishal Nedungadi, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Marc RuÃwurm +5
Air pollution remains a leading global health risk, exacerbated by rapid industrialization and urbanization, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality rates. In this pa…