GeoLink: Empowering Remote Sensing Foundation Model with OpenStreetMap Data

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Auteurs principaux: Bai, Lubian, Zhang, Xiuyuan, Zhang, Siqi, Zhang, Zepeng, Wang, Haoyu, Qin, Wei, Du, Shihong
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author Bai, Lubian
Zhang, Xiuyuan
Zhang, Siqi
Zhang, Zepeng
Wang, Haoyu
Qin, Wei
Du, Shihong
author_facet Bai, Lubian
Zhang, Xiuyuan
Zhang, Siqi
Zhang, Zepeng
Wang, Haoyu
Qin, Wei
Du, Shihong
contents Integrating ground-level geospatial data with rich geographic context, like OpenStreetMap (OSM), into remote sensing (RS) foundation models (FMs) is essential for advancing geospatial intelligence and supporting a broad spectrum of tasks. However, modality gap between RS and OSM data, including differences in data structure, content, and spatial granularity, makes effective synergy highly challenging, and most existing RS FMs focus on imagery alone. To this end, this study presents GeoLink, a multimodal framework that leverages OSM data to enhance RS FM during both the pretraining and downstream task stages. Specifically, GeoLink enhances RS self-supervised pretraining using multi-granularity learning signals derived from OSM data, guided by cross-modal spatial correlations for information interaction and collaboration. It also introduces image mask-reconstruction to enable sparse input for efficient pretraining. For downstream tasks, GeoLink generates both unimodal and multimodal fine-grained encodings to support a wide range of applications, from common RS interpretation tasks like land cover classification to more comprehensive geographic tasks like urban function zone mapping. Extensive experiments show that incorporating OSM data during pretraining enhances the performance of the RS image encoder, while fusing RS and OSM data in downstream tasks improves the FM's adaptability to complex geographic scenarios. These results underscore the potential of multimodal synergy in advancing high-level geospatial artificial intelligence. Moreover, we find that spatial correlation plays a crucial role in enabling effective multimodal geospatial data integration. Code, checkpoints, and using examples are released at https://github.com/bailubin/GeoLink_NeurIPS2025
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spellingShingle GeoLink: Empowering Remote Sensing Foundation Model with OpenStreetMap Data
Bai, Lubian
Zhang, Xiuyuan
Zhang, Siqi
Zhang, Zepeng
Wang, Haoyu
Qin, Wei
Du, Shihong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Integrating ground-level geospatial data with rich geographic context, like OpenStreetMap (OSM), into remote sensing (RS) foundation models (FMs) is essential for advancing geospatial intelligence and supporting a broad spectrum of tasks. However, modality gap between RS and OSM data, including differences in data structure, content, and spatial granularity, makes effective synergy highly challenging, and most existing RS FMs focus on imagery alone. To this end, this study presents GeoLink, a multimodal framework that leverages OSM data to enhance RS FM during both the pretraining and downstream task stages. Specifically, GeoLink enhances RS self-supervised pretraining using multi-granularity learning signals derived from OSM data, guided by cross-modal spatial correlations for information interaction and collaboration. It also introduces image mask-reconstruction to enable sparse input for efficient pretraining. For downstream tasks, GeoLink generates both unimodal and multimodal fine-grained encodings to support a wide range of applications, from common RS interpretation tasks like land cover classification to more comprehensive geographic tasks like urban function zone mapping. Extensive experiments show that incorporating OSM data during pretraining enhances the performance of the RS image encoder, while fusing RS and OSM data in downstream tasks improves the FM's adaptability to complex geographic scenarios. These results underscore the potential of multimodal synergy in advancing high-level geospatial artificial intelligence. Moreover, we find that spatial correlation plays a crucial role in enabling effective multimodal geospatial data integration. Code, checkpoints, and using examples are released at https://github.com/bailubin/GeoLink_NeurIPS2025
title GeoLink: Empowering Remote Sensing Foundation Model with OpenStreetMap Data
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26016