Paper · arXiv 2412.14123
AnySat: An Earth Observation Model for Any Resolutions, Scales, and Modalities
Guillaume Astruc, Nicolas Gonthier, Clement Mallet, Loic Landrieu
Anysat uses joint embedding predictive architecture and resolution-adaptive spatial encoders to train a unified multimodal model on diverse Earth observation datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance across various environment monitoring tasks.
Abstract
Geospatial models must adapt to the diversity of Earth observation data in terms of resolutions, scales, and modalities. However, existing approaches expect fixed input configurations, which limits their practical applicability. We propose AnySat, a multimodal model based on joint embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) and resolution-adaptive spatial encoders, allowing us to train a single model on highly heterogeneous data in a self-supervised manner. To demonstrate the advantages of this unified approach, we compile GeoPlex, a collection of 5 multimodal datasets with varying characteristics and 11 distinct sensors. We then train a single powerful model on these diverse datasets simultaneously. Once fine-tuned, we achieve better or near state-of-the-art results on the datasets of GeoPlex and 4 additional ones for 5 environment monitoring tasks: land cover mapping, tree species identification, crop type classification, change detection, and flood segmentation. The code and models are available at https://github.com/gastruc/AnySat.