Congress Final Program

Session

ThS16: Earth Embeddings: Investigating Accurate and Accessible Deep Geospatial Feature Representations

Time:

Sunday, 05-July-2026:

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Session Chair: Konstantin Klemmer
Session Chair: Lincoln Xu

Location: 716A

175 theatre

Session Topics:

Earth Embeddings: Investigating Accurate and Accessible Deep Geospatial Feature Representations (ThS16)

Presentations

12:00pm - 12:15pm

Beyond AlphaEarth: Toward Human-Centred Spatial Representation via POI-Guided Contrastive Learning

Junyuan Liu, Quan Qin, Guangsheng Dong, Xinglei Wang, Jiazhuang Feng, Zichao Zeng, Tao Cheng

12:15pm - 12:30pm

Bridging Earth's surface and atmosphere with Copernicus embeddings

Yi Wang, Zhitong Xiong, Chenying Liu, Adam Stewart, Thomas Dujardin, Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Angelos Zavras, Franziska Gerken, Ioannis Papoutsis, Laura Leal-Taixé, Xiao Xiang Zhu

12:30pm - 12:45pm

DESPINA: Synthesis of High-Fidelity Planetary Horizon Reconstructions Using DEM-Guided Diffusion

Adam Nelson-Archer, Raunak Sarbajna, Christoph F. Eick

12:45pm - 1:00pm

Towards improved crop type classification: a compact embedding approach suitable for small fields

Madeline Lisaius, Andrew Blake, Clement Atzberger, Srinivasan Keshav