AI RESEARCH
Geospatial Foundation Models to Enable Progress on Sustainable Development Goals
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2505.24528v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Foundation Models (FMs) are large-scale, pre-trained artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision, and are now advancing geospatial analysis and Earth Observation (EO). They promise improved generalization across tasks, scalability, and efficient adaptation with minimal labeled data. However, despite the rapid proliferation of geospatial FMs, their real-world utility and alignment with global sustainability goals remain underexplored. We