A Composition-Aware Pretraining Framework for Geospatial Foundation Models
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arXiv:2608.30817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial foundation models have emerged as state-of-the-art methods for downstream Earth observation tasks. However, existing pretraining methodologies process imagery through a single-concept lens, failing to capture the highly compositional nature of complex satellite scenes. We propose a composition-aware pretraining framework that explicitly encodes fractional land-cover mixtures. Each satellite image cell is mapped to a histogram representing its fractional land-cover distribution, which we term the "composition target". These targets se
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.30817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial foundation models have emerged as state-of-the-art methods for downstream Earth observation tasks.
- However, existing pretraining methodologies process imagery through a single-concept lens, failing to capture the highly compositional nature of complex satellite scenes.
- We propose a composition-aware pretraining framework that explicitly encodes fractional land-cover mixtures.
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