Congress Final Program

Session

ThS26: Earth Observation Foundation Models: Scalable, Multimodal AI for Environmental Intelligence

Time:

Sunday, 05-July-2026:

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Session Chair: Masoud Mahdianpari
Session Chair: Saeid Homayouni

Location: 715A

125 theatre

Session Topics:

Earth Observation Foundation Models: Scalable, Multimodal AI for Environmental Intelligence (ThS26)

Presentations

12:00pm - 12:15pm

From Orthophotos to Insights: AI-Powered Forest Monitoring for Digital Forest Twin

Nina Krueger, Sandra Uhlig, Taimur Khan

12:15pm - 12:30pm

Scalable Framework for Peatland Aboveground Biomass Mapping Using Multi-source Satellite Data and Machine Learning

Mohammadali Hemati, Masoud Mahdianpari, Hodjat Shiri, Fariba Mohammadimanesh

12:30pm - 12:45pm

A self-supervised method for soil moisture estimation using multisensor data over forests

Rouhollah Esmaeilisarteshniz, Ramata Magagi, Samuel Foucher, Aaron Berg, Andreas Colliander

12:45pm - 1:00pm

Zero-shot multi-class semantic segmentation of remote sensing images using SAM 2 with prior database information

Paula Lilian Lippmann, Mareike Dorozynski, Franz Rottensteiner, Christian Heipke