Large-scale flood modeling and forecasting with FloodCast

Q Xu, Y Shi, JL Bamber, C Ouyang, XX Zhu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Large-scale hydrodynamic models generally rely on fixed-resolution spatial grids and model
parameters as well as incurring a high computational cost. This limits their ability to …

Self-Supervised Pre-Training with Monocular Height Estimation for Semantic Segmentation

Z Xiong, S Chen, Y Shi, XX Zhu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monocular Height Estimation (MHE) is key for generating 3D city models, essential for swift
disaster response. Moving beyond the traditional focus on performance enhancement, our …

Multi-Label Guided Soft Contrastive Learning for Efficient Earth Observation Pretraining

Y Wang, CM Albrecht, XX Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20462, 2024 - arxiv.org
Self-supervised pretraining on large-scale satellite data has raised great interest in building
Earth observation (EO) foundation models. However, many important resources beyond …

Identifying high resolution benchmark data needs and Novel data-driven methodologies for Climate Downscaling

D Curran, H Saleem, F Salim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20346, 2024 - arxiv.org
We address the essential role of information retrieval in enhancing climate downscaling,
focusing on the need for high-resolution datasets and the application of deep learning …

Evaluating and Benchmarking Foundation Models for Earth Observation and Geospatial AI

N Dionelis, C Fibaek, L Camilleri, A Luyts… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
When we are primarily interested in solving several problems jointly with a given prescribed
high performance accuracy for each target application, then Foundation Models should for …