Towards a Unified Copernicus Foundation Model for Earth Vision
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| author | Wang, Yi Xiong, Zhitong Liu, Chenying Stewart, Adam J. Dujardin, Thomas Bountos, Nikolaos Ioannis Zavras, Angelos Gerken, Franziska Papoutsis, Ioannis Leal-Taixé, Laura Zhu, Xiao Xiang |
| author_facet | Wang, Yi Xiong, Zhitong Liu, Chenying Stewart, Adam J. Dujardin, Thomas Bountos, Nikolaos Ioannis Zavras, Angelos Gerken, Franziska Papoutsis, Ioannis Leal-Taixé, Laura Zhu, Xiao Xiang |
| contents | Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most existing efforts remain limited to fixed spectral sensors, focus solely on the Earth's surface, and overlook valuable metadata beyond imagery. In this work, we take a step towards next-generation EO foundation models with three key components: 1) Copernicus-Pretrain, a massive-scale pretraining dataset that integrates 18.7M aligned images from all major Copernicus Sentinel missions, spanning from the Earth's surface to its atmosphere; 2) Copernicus-FM, a unified foundation model capable of processing any spectral or non-spectral sensor modality using extended dynamic hypernetworks and flexible metadata encoding; and 3) Copernicus-Bench, a systematic evaluation benchmark with 15 hierarchical downstream tasks ranging from preprocessing to specialized applications for each Sentinel mission. Our dataset, model, and benchmark greatly improve the scalability, versatility, and multimodal adaptability of EO foundation models, while also creating new opportunities to connect EO, weather, and climate research. Codes, datasets and models are available at https://github.com/zhu-xlab/Copernicus-FM. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards a Unified Copernicus Foundation Model for Earth Vision Wang, Yi Xiong, Zhitong Liu, Chenying Stewart, Adam J. Dujardin, Thomas Bountos, Nikolaos Ioannis Zavras, Angelos Gerken, Franziska Papoutsis, Ioannis Leal-Taixé, Laura Zhu, Xiao Xiang Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most existing efforts remain limited to fixed spectral sensors, focus solely on the Earth's surface, and overlook valuable metadata beyond imagery. In this work, we take a step towards next-generation EO foundation models with three key components: 1) Copernicus-Pretrain, a massive-scale pretraining dataset that integrates 18.7M aligned images from all major Copernicus Sentinel missions, spanning from the Earth's surface to its atmosphere; 2) Copernicus-FM, a unified foundation model capable of processing any spectral or non-spectral sensor modality using extended dynamic hypernetworks and flexible metadata encoding; and 3) Copernicus-Bench, a systematic evaluation benchmark with 15 hierarchical downstream tasks ranging from preprocessing to specialized applications for each Sentinel mission. Our dataset, model, and benchmark greatly improve the scalability, versatility, and multimodal adaptability of EO foundation models, while also creating new opportunities to connect EO, weather, and climate research. Codes, datasets and models are available at https://github.com/zhu-xlab/Copernicus-FM. |
| title | Towards a Unified Copernicus Foundation Model for Earth Vision |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11849 |