arxivcs.LG2026-07-08
Scalable and Trustworthy Earth Observation Foundation Models
Syed Usama Imtiaz, Mitra Nasr Azadani, Nasrin Alamdari
Foundation models (FMs) have transformed machine learning from isolated task-specific model development toward general-purpose models pretrained on broad data and adapted to multiple downstream tasks. Earth observation (EO) is an important domain for this paradigm because satelli…