Summary of Satvision-toa: a Geospatial Foundation Model For Coarse-resolution All-sky Remote Sensing Imagery, by Caleb S. Spradlin et al.
SatVision-TOA: A Geospatial Foundation Model for Coarse-Resolution All-Sky Remote Sensing Imagery
by Caleb S. Spradlin, Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega, Jian Li, Mark L. Carroll, Jie Gong, Paul M. Montesano
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces SatVision-TOA, a novel foundation model pre-trained on MODIS L1B Top-Of-Atmosphere radiance imagery. This model can be fine-tuned for various remote sensing applications, leveraging the potential of large computer vision models to analyze vast amounts of RS data. By learning contextual representations through self-supervised learning without labels, SatVision-TOA demonstrates superior performance on downstream tasks like 3D cloud retrieval, achieving a mean intersection over union (mIOU) of 0.46 compared to the baseline mIOU of 0.22. The model’s ability to improve cloud and land surface monitoring by learning from atmospheric and aerosol conditions is a significant advancement in pre-trained vision modeling for multispectral RS. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces SatVision-TOA, a new way to analyze satellite images without needing human labels. This helps with tasks like identifying clouds or monitoring the Earth’s surface. The model learns from a huge amount of satellite data and can be fine-tuned for different applications. It’s much better than previous models at finding 3D clouds, which is important for understanding our planet. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Self supervised
