Research
Research Topics
Earth Embeddings and Geospatial Representation Learning
2023 - ongoing
Learning general-purpose representations that capture spatial, temporal, and contextual signals across Earth observation data.
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Marine Litter Monitoring with Remote Sensing and AI Models
2021 - ongoing
Detecting and tracking marine debris from multi-sensor imagery to support monitoring and response.
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Few-Shot Meta-Learning and Transfer Learning
2020 - 2023
Designing models that adapt quickly to new regions, sensors, and tasks with minimal labeled data.
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Large-scale Crop Type Mapping with Deep Time Series Classifiers
2018 - 2021
Scalable crop-type mapping from Sentinel time series, with models that generalize across regions and can deliver reliable in-season predictions.
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Publications
73 papers
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Deep Embeddings For Tree Species Classification In The Dutch Forest Inventory 2026
Science of Remote Sensing
CoDiT: Conditional Diffusion Models For Multi-Day Ocean Drifter Trajectory Prediction 2026
Machine Learning Earth
Earth Embeddings: Toward Artificial Intelligence-Centric Representations Of Our Planet 2026
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
Cross-Sensor Matching Of Marine Litter Patches In Satellite Double Acquisitions 2026
ECCV 2026 Marine Vision Workshop (Poster)
Better Together: Evaluating The Complementarity Of Earth Embedding Models 2026
arXiv (Cornell University)
Exploring Plastic Detectability On Riverbanks Using Remote Sensing 2026
Marine Pollution Bulletin
Dataset Underlying The Publication "Detecting Marine Litter Windrows In PlanetScope Imagery" 2026
Zenodo (Dataset Contribution)
Exploring Transferability Of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction And Detection In Rivers 2026
Accepted at Cell iScience (2026)
Localized, High-Resolution Geographic Representations With Slepian Functions 2026
Accepted at the International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML, 2026)
Sentinel-2 Reveals Prolonged And Localized Extreme Vegetation Anomalies Across Europe 2026
SSRN (Preprint, 2026)
Self-Supervised Pre-Training Enables Marine Debris Detection Across Sensors 2026
Remote Sensing of Environment
Measuring The Intrinsic Dimension Of Earth Representations 2026
Accepted to ICLR 2026
NaT-ReX: Naturalness Assessment With Transformer-Based Reliable Explainability 2025
Pattern Recognition - 47th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2025), LNCS 16125, pp. 571-585
River Plastic Hotspot Detection From Space 2025
iScience, 29(2), article 114570
Earth Embeddings: Toward AI-Centric Representations Of Our Planet 2025
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (Perspective)
On The Added Value Of Sequential Deep Learning For The Upscaling Of Evapotranspiration 2025
Biogeosciences
Earth Embeddings: Harnessing The Information In Earth Observation Data With Machine Learning 2025
Abstract (talk E. Rolf)
From General To Specialized: The Need For Foundational Models In Agriculture 2025
SEA Workshop on Sustainability with Earth Observation and AI at ICCV 2025
SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings With Satellite Imagery 2025
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(4), pp. 4347-4355
Autoregressive Denoising Diffusion For Predicting Trajectories Of Floating Objects In Oceans 2025
In Review - Major Revision IOPScience MLEarth
A Cross-Sensor Approach For Marine Litter Detection With Self-Supervised Learning 2025
EGU Abstract
AirCast: Improving Air Pollution Forecasting Through Multi-Variable Data Alignment 2025
Proceedings of the TerraBytes ICML Workshop, PMLR 292, pp. 46-62. Best Workshop Paper Award
Time, Space, Or Both? A Comparison Of Flexible Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Architectures To Map Tree Cover Loss From Sentinel-2 Data 2025
SSRN Electronic Journal
Scalable Classification Of Riverine Plastic Hotspots Using Sentinel-2 And Cloud-Based Machine Learning 2025
Cell iScience
SAMSelect: A Spectral Index Search For Marine Debris Visualization Using Segment Anything 2025
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 22, pp. 1-5
Deep Pre-Trained Time Series Features For Tree Species Classification In The Dutch Forest Inventory 2025
SSRN Electronic Journal
Better, Not Just More: Data-Centric Machine Learning For Earth Observation 2024
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 12(4), pp. 335-355
On The Added Value Of Sequential Deep Learning For Upscaling Evapotranspiration 2024
Mapping Drivers Of Tropical Forest Loss With Satellite Image Time Series And Machine Learning 2024
Environmental Research Letters
WildCLIP: Scene And Animal Attribute Retrieval From Camera Trap Data With Domain-Adapted Vision-Language Models 2024
International Journal of Computer Vision
Spatially Far, Ecologically Close: Evaluating Extrapolation On Vegetation Forecasting Models 2024
Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Workshop at ICLR 2024
Multi-Temporal Forest Monitoring In The Swiss Alps With Knowledge-Guided Deep Learning 2024
Remote Sensing of Environment
Imbalance-Aware Presence-Only Loss Function For Species Distribution Modeling 2024
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning at ICLR Workshop 2024
Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Models Through Input Perturbation 2024
Linking Deep Learning-Based Forest Cover Maps To Treeline Spatio-Temporal Patterns 2024
Where The White Continent Is Blue: Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice In Antarctica 2024
Geophysical Research Letters
Datasets For "Where The White Continent Is Blue: Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice In Antarctica" 2024
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geographic Location Encoding With Spherical Harmonics And Sinusoidal Representation Networks 2024
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Spotlight
Meta-Learning To Address Diverse Earth Observation Problems Across Resolutions 2024
Communications Earth & Environment
Large-Scale Detection Of Marine Debris In Coastal Areas With Sentinel-2 2023
iScience
Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Representations In Earth Observation Based Forest Management 2023
Improving Few-Shot Object Detection With Object Part Proposals 2023
Detection Of Settlements In Tanzania And Mozambique By Many Regional Few-Shot Models 2023
Classification Of Tropical Deforestation Drivers With Machine Learning And Satellite Image Time Series 2023
Short-Term Runoff Forecasting In An Alpine Catchment With A Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network 2023
Frontiers in Water
Improved Marine Debris Detection In Satellite Imagery With Automatic Refinement Of Coarse Hand Annotations 2023
Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Workshop at ICLR 2023
Mapping Forest Cover Dynamics In The Swiss Alps Using 70 Years Of Aerial Imagery 2023
A New Blue Ice Area Map Of Antarctica 2023
End-To-End Learned Early Classification Of Time Series For In-Season Crop Type Mapping 2023
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Instance Norm Improves Meta-Learning In Class-Imbalanced Land Cover Classification 2022
NeurIPS 2022 Workshop
Humans Are Poor Few-Shot Classifiers For Sentinel-2 Land Cover 2022
IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
What Determines The Location Of Antarctic Blue Ice Areas? A Deep Learning Approach 2022
Data-Driven Feature Learning With Discriminative Models For Satellite Time Series 2022
Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität München
Time Dependent Image Generation Of Plants From Incomplete Sequences With CNN-Transformer 2022
Pattern Recognition - 44th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2022), LNCS 13485, pp. 495-510
Detecting Macro Floating Objects On Coastal Water Bodies Using Sentinel-2 Data 2021
OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto
DENETHOR: The DynamicEarthNET Dataset For Harmonized, Inter-Operable, Analysis-Ready, Daily Crop Monitoring From Space 2021
NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Recurrent Neural Networks And The Temporal Component 2021
Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences, Wiley, chapter 8, pp. 105-119
TOWARDS DETECTING FLOATING OBJECTS ON A GLOBAL SCALE WITH LEARNED SPATIAL FEATURES USING SENTINEL 2 2021
ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
BREIZHCROPS: A TIME SERIES DATASET FOR CROP TYPE MAPPING 2021
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Self-Attention For Raw Optical Satellite Time Series Classification 2020
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Model And Data Uncertainty For Satellite Time Series Forecasting With Deep Recurrent Models 2020
Meta-Learning For Few-Shot Land Cover Classification 2020
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2020), pp. 788-796. EarthVision Best Paper Award
Tslearn, A Machine Learning Toolkit For Time Series Data 2020
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(118), pp. 1-6
Early Classification For Agricultural Monitoring From Satellite Time Series 2019
arXiv (Preprint)
Multi3Net: Segmenting Flooded Buildings Via Fusion Of Multiresolution, Multisensor, And Multitemporal Satellite Imagery 2019
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
End-To-End Learning For Early Classification Of Time Series 2019
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
End-To-End Learned Early Classification Of Time Series For In-Season Crop Type Mapping 2019
arXiv (Preprint)
Multi$^{\mathbf{3}}$Net: Segmenting Flooded Buildings Via Fusion Of Multiresolution, Multisensor, And Multitemporal Satellite Imagery 2018
arXiv (Preprint)
Convolutional LSTMs For Cloud-Robust Segmentation Of Remote Sensing Imagery 2018
arXiv (Preprint)
Towards Multi-Temporal Data-Driven Models For Extracting And Learning Information From Remote Sensing Times Series And Existing Ancillary Data For Land Cover Classification 2018
Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
Temporal Vegetation Modelling Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks For Crop Identification From Medium-Resolution Multi-Spectral Satellite Images 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2017). Best Paper Award
Multitemporal Crop Identification From Medium-Resolution Multi-Spectral Satellite Images Based On Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks 2017
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-1/W1, pp. 551-558
“Visualising The Project Landscape”: A Spatialisation Describing Workload Attributes As Terrain 2015
Environmental Earth Sciences
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