WE2.M2: Earth Observation Foundation Models II
Wednesday, 6 August, 10:30 - 11:45
Location: Room M2
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Xiao Xiang Zhu, Technical University Munich and Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Track: Community-Contributed Sessions
Wed, 6 Aug, 10:30 - 10:45

WE2.M2.1: GEO-BENCH-2.0: ADVANCING BENCHMARKING OF FOUNDATION MODELS FOR EARTH MONITORING
Naomi Simumba, IBM Research, Japan; Nils Lehmann, Zhitong Xiong, Technical University Munich, Germany; Hamed Alemohammad, Clark University, United States; Geeth De Mel, IBM Research, United Kingdom; Hannah Kerner, Arizona State University, United States; Salman Khan, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates; Manil Maskey, NASA IMPACT, United States; Nicolas Longepe, ESA Φ-lab, Italy; Xiao Xiang Zhu, Technical University Munich, Germany; Paolo Fraccaro, Juan Bernabe-Moreno, IBM Research, United Kingdom; Alexander Lacoste, ServiceNow Research, Canada
Wed, 6 Aug, 10:45 - 11:00

WE2.M2.2: 3D-ABC: A FOUNDATION MODEL FOR GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL 3D ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND CARBON STOCK MAPPING
Guido Grosse, Josh Hashemi, Lona van Delden, Tillmann Lübker, Ingmar Nitze, Jens Strauss, Stefan Kruse, Ulrike Herzschuh, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany; Pedram Ghamisi, Peter Steinbach, Gunjan Joshi, Weikang Yu, Aldino Rizaldy, Richard Gloaguen, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany; Gabriele Cavallaro, Ehsan Zandi, Rocco Sedona, Samy Hashim, Sayan Mandal, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Martin Herold, Qian Song, Simon Besnard, Mikhail Urbazaev, Mike Sips, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; Andreas Huth, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany; Irena Hajnsek, Matteo Pardini, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
Wed, 6 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

WE2.M2.3: PRETRAIN, ADAPT, AND FINE-TUNE A SAR FOUNDATION MODEL FOR SEGMENTATION TASKS
Tsenjung Tai, Kenta Senzaki, Masato Toda, NEC Corporation, Japan
Wed, 6 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

WE2.M2.4: CrossPatch: A Flexible Patch Embedding Strategy for Foundation Models in Remote Sensing
Xuyang Li, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China; Danfeng Hong, Chenyu Li, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Jocelyn Chanussot, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, France
Wed, 6 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

WE2.M2.5: AGI for the Earth, the path, possibilities and how to evaluate intelligence of models that work with Earth Observation Data?
Mojtaba Valipour, Kelly Zheng, James Lowman, Spencer Szabados, Mike Gartner, Bobby Braswell, Hum.ai, Canada