geoscience and remote sensing letter
SOMA: Feature Gradient Enhanced Affine-Flow Matching for SAR-Optical Registration
Wang, Haodong, Zhuo, Tao, Zhang, Xiuwei, Yin, Hanlin, Wu, Wencong, Zhang, Yanning
Achieving pixel-level registration between SAR and optical images remains a challenging task due to their fundamentally different imaging mechanisms and visual characteristics. Although deep learning has achieved great success in many cross-modal tasks, its performance on SAR-Optical registration tasks is still unsatisfactory. Gradient-based information has traditionally played a crucial role in handcrafted descriptors by highlighting structural differences. However, such gradient cues have not been effectively leveraged in deep learning frameworks for SAR-Optical image matching. To address this gap, we propose SOMA, a dense registration framework that integrates structural gradient priors into deep features and refines alignment through a hybrid matching strategy. Specifically, we introduce the Feature Gradient Enhancer (FGE), which embeds multi-scale, multi-directional gradient filters into the feature space using attention and reconstruction mechanisms to boost feature distinctiveness. Furthermore, we propose the Global-Local Affine-Flow Matcher (GLAM), which combines affine transformation and flow-based refinement within a coarse-to-fine architecture to ensure both structural consistency and local accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that SOMA significantly improves registration precision, increasing the CMR@1px by 12.29% on the SEN1-2 dataset and 18.50% on the GFGE SO dataset. In addition, SOMA exhibits strong robustness and generalizes well across diverse scenes and resolutions.
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Transformers Meet Hyperspectral Imaging: A Comprehensive Study of Models, Challenges and Open Problems
Zhang, Guyang, Abdulla, Waleed
Transformers have become the architecture of choice for learning long-range dependencies, yet their adoption in hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is still emerging. We reviewed more than 300 papers published up to 2025 and present the first end-to-end survey dedicated to Transformer-based HSI classification. The study categorizes every stage of a typical pipeline-pre-processing, patch or pixel tokenization, positional encoding, spatial-spectral feature extraction, multi-head self-attention variants, skip connections, and loss design-and contrasts alternative design choices with the unique spatial-spectral properties of HSI. We map the field's progress against persistent obstacles: scarce labeled data, extreme spectral dimensionality, computational overhead, and limited model explainability. Finally, we outline a research agenda prioritizing valuable public data sets, lightweight on-edge models, illumination and sensor shifts robustness, and intrinsically interpretable attention mechanisms. Our goal is to guide researchers in selecting, combining, or extending Transformer components that are truly fit for purpose for next-generation HSI applications.
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CTP: A hybrid CNN-Transformer-PINN model for ocean front forecasting
Wang, Yishuo, Zhou, Feng, Zhou, Muping, Meng, Qicheng, Hu, Zhijun, Wang, Yi
--This paper proposes CTP, a novel deep learning framework that integrates convolutional neural network(CNN), Transformer architectures, and physics-informed neural network(PINN) for ocean front prediction. Ocean fronts, as dynamic interfaces between distinct water masses, play critical roles in marine biogeochemical and physical processes. Existing methods such as LSTM, ConvLSTM, and AttentionConv often struggle to maintain spatial continuity and physical consistency over multi-step forecasts. Experimental results across south China sea(SCS) and Kuroshio(KUR) regions from 1993 to 2020 demonstrate that CTP achieves state-of-the-art(SOT A) performance in both single-step and multi-step predictions, significantly outperforming baseline models in accuracy, F 1 score, and temporal stability. I NTRODUCTION O CEAN fronts, characterized by sharp gradients in physical and biogeochemical properties such as temperature, salinity, and nutrient concentrations, are critical yet dynamic features of the global ocean [1]. These transitional zones, formed by the convergence of distinct water masses, play a pivotal role in regulating energy transfer, material cycling, and biological processes across marine ecosystems [2]. The study of fronts is essential for advancing understanding of ocean dynamics, as they act as hotspots for vertical mixing, influence large-scale circulation patterns, and modulate air-sea interactions that impact regional and global climate systems [3].
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CDXFormer: Boosting Remote Sensing Change Detection with Extended Long Short-Term Memory
Wu, Zhenkai, Ma, Xiaowen, Lian, Rongrong, Zheng, Kai, Zhang, Wei
In complex scenes and varied conditions, effectively integrating spatial-temporal context is crucial for accurately identifying changes. However, current RS-CD methods lack a balanced consideration of performance and efficiency. CNNs lack global context, Transformers are computationally expensive, and Mambas face CUDA dependence and local correlation loss. In this paper, we propose CDXFormer, with a core component that is a powerful XLSTM-based feature enhancement layer, integrating the advantages of linear computational complexity, global context perception, and strong interpret-ability. Specifically, we introduce a scale-specific Feature Enhancer layer, incorporating a Cross-Temporal Global Perceptron customized for semantic-accurate deep features, and a Cross-Temporal Spatial Refiner customized for detail-rich shallow features. Additionally, we propose a Cross-Scale Interactive Fusion module to progressively interact global change representations with spatial responses. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that CDXFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance across three benchmark datasets, offering a compelling balance between efficiency and accuracy. Code is available at https://github.com/xwmaxwma/rschange.
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Zero-Shot Self-Consistency Learning for Seismic Irregular Spatial Sampling Reconstruction
Peng, Junheng, Liu, Yingtian, Wang, Mingwei, Li, Yong, Li, Huating
Seismic exploration is currently the most important method for understanding subsurface structures. However, due to surface conditions, seismic receivers may not be uniformly distributed along the measurement line, making the entire exploration work difficult to carry out. Previous deep learning methods for reconstructing seismic data often relied on additional datasets for training. While some existing methods do not require extra data, they lack constraints on the reconstruction data, leading to unstable reconstruction performance. In this paper, we proposed a zero-shot self-consistency learning strategy and employed an extremely lightweight network for seismic data reconstruction. Our method does not require additional datasets and utilizes the correlations among different parts of the data to design a self-consistency learning loss function, driving a network with only 90,609 learnable parameters. We applied this method to experiments on the USGS National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska public dataset and the results indicate that our proposed approach achieved good reconstruction results. Additionally, our method also demonstrates a certain degree of noise suppression, which is highly beneficial for large and complex seismic exploration tasks.
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Stacked Autoencoder Based Feature Extraction and Superpixel Generation for Multifrequency PolSAR Image Classification
Gadhiya, Tushar, Tangirala, Sumanth, Roy, Anil K.
In this paper we are proposing classification algorithm for multifrequency Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image. Using PolSAR decomposition algorithms 33 features are extracted from each frequency band of the given image. Then, a two-layer autoencoder is used to reduce the dimensionality of input feature vector while retaining useful features of the input. This reduced dimensional feature vector is then applied to generate superpixels using simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) algorithm. Next, a robust feature representation is constructed using both pixel as well as superpixel information. Finally, softmax classifier is used to perform classification task. The advantage of using superpixels is that it preserves spatial information between neighbouring PolSAR pixels and therefore minimizes the effect of speckle noise during classification. Experiments have been conducted on Flevoland dataset and the proposed method was found to be superior to other methods available in the literature.
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Efficient Remote Sensing Segmentation With Generative Adversarial Transformer
Qiu, Luyi, Yu, Dayu, Zhang, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Chenxiao
EMANTIC segmentation, as a significant task in image processing, has found application in various practical the field of computer vision, has quickly become a research scenarios such as autonomous driving, precision agriculture, hotspot due to its capability to learn explicit global and longrange and urban analysis [4]. Over the past decade, inspired by semantic features [2], [5]. Nevertheless, previous studies the success of deep learning in high-level visual tasks, a have overlooked the non-local textures with low similarity, considerable amount of work has been devoted to using deep which might offer richer detail information than highly similar convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for semantic segmentation features [13]. Additionally, although global features can be of remote sensing images [1], [8], [15]. The inherent captured, Transformer also result in higher computational characteristics of geographical objects in remote sensing images, complexity because each position's feature needs to be computed including their multi-scale nature, random appearances, and interacted with other positions.
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A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management
Jain, Piyush, Coogan, Sean C P, Subramanian, Sriram Ganapathi, Crowley, Mark, Taylor, Steve, Flannigan, Mike D
Artificial intelligence has been applied in wildfire science and management since the 1990s, with early applications including neural networks and expert systems. Since then the field has rapidly progressed congruently with the wide adoption of machine learning (ML) in the environmental sciences. Here, we present a scoping review of ML in wildfire science and management. Our objective is to improve awareness of ML among wildfire scientists and managers, as well as illustrate the challenging range of problems in wildfire science available to data scientists. We first present an overview of popular ML approaches used in wildfire science to date, and then review their use in wildfire science within six problem domains: 1) fuels characterization, fire detection, and mapping; 2) fire weather and climate change; 3) fire occurrence, susceptibility, and risk; 4) fire behavior prediction; 5) fire effects; and 6) fire management. We also discuss the advantages and limitations of various ML approaches and identify opportunities for future advances in wildfire science and management within a data science context. We identified 298 relevant publications, where the most frequently used ML methods included random forests, MaxEnt, artificial neural networks, decision trees, support vector machines, and genetic algorithms. There exists opportunities to apply more current ML methods (e.g., deep learning and agent based learning) in wildfire science. However, despite the ability of ML models to learn on their own, expertise in wildfire science is necessary to ensure realistic modelling of fire processes across multiple scales, while the complexity of some ML methods requires sophisticated knowledge for their application. Finally, we stress that the wildfire research and management community plays an active role in providing relevant, high quality data for use by practitioners of ML methods.
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DGIST - Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
DGIST announced on Tuesday, July 16 that Senior Researcher Dae-gun Oh's team in the Collaborative Robots Research Center developed a radar system that can detect subminiature drones that are 3km away. This research is expected to make huge contributions to strengthening domestic industries and defense capabilities by securing a world-class radar sensing technology. As a result of discovering a North Korean drone in Paju in March 2014, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense has adopted a drone detection radar based on an overseas technology. Since last year, the ministry has devoted itself into building a combat system using drones and training specialized personnel by forming a drone unit to strengthen its defense capability. The necessity of enemy surveillance reconnaissance and the early detection of offensive drones has increased in Korea.
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