2025 edition · Archive

1st Workshop on Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation

EurIPS 2025 · December 7, 2025 · University of Copenhagen, Denmark

117

Registered participants

33

Poster presentations

5

Oral presentations

About REO-1

Uniting ML, computer vision, and Earth sciences

The first REO workshop brought together researchers from machine learning, computer vision, and Earth sciences to advance robust, interpretable, and scalable models for monitoring our planet. It addressed opportunities arising from large-scale multimodal EO data and foundation models, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange between academia, industry, and policy.

Recent developments discussed included Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth, IBM–ESA's TerraMind, AllenAI's Earth System, and Meta's DINOv3.

Three guiding questions framed the workshop:

  1. Where are we, and how can we move forward as a community?
  2. What are the open challenges in learning representations of EO data?
  3. In the era of general-purpose one-for-all models, what is the role of specialized approaches?

Venue: University of Copenhagen South Campus, Njalsgade 76, Auditorium 4A.0.69, ground floor, 2300 København S. Not at the main EurIPS venue; closest metro station: Islands Brygge.

Call for Papers

Two submission tracks

Track 1 — Novel unpublished work

Up to 4 pages single column (excluding references) using the NeurIPS template. Short supplementary material allowed. Double-blind, non-archival.

Track 2 — Recently published work

Papers published after NeurIPS 2024 could be submitted as-is. Single-blind (anonymous reviewers only).

Accepted contributions were presented as posters; authors could indicate interest in a 10-minute oral talk.

Timeline

MilestoneDate (AoE)
Submission deadlineOct 15 → extended to Oct 20, 2025
Notification of acceptanceOct 31, 2025
Camera-readyNov 28, 2025

Topics of Interest

  • · Machine Learning and AI for EO — self-supervised, multimodal, domain-adaptive, continual/online learning, foundation models, human-in-the-loop, active learning
  • · Physics-based and Hybrid Modeling — Radiative Transfer Models, hybrid AI–physics for parameter retrieval and uncertainty quantification
  • · Ecology and Environmental Monitoring — land use/cover change, biodiversity, phenology, biomass, canopy height, soil/vegetation condition
  • · Remote Sensing and Satellite Data Processing — multispectral, SAR, LiDAR, hyperspectral; multi-resolution fusion; temporal change detection; cross-sensor harmonization
  • · Embeddings and Compression — learned representations, semantic compression for large EO archives
  • · Earth Science Applications — geophysical parameter estimation, urban/rural mapping, geohazards (floods, landslides, volcanic activity)
  • · Data Curation, Bias, and Accessibility — globally representative datasets, bias mitigation, open benchmarks
  • · Technical and Use Case Innovations — novel architectures, training strategies, pipelines

Invited Speakers

Keynotes

Michal Kazmierski

Michal Kazmierski

Google DeepMind

Gustau Camps-Valls

Gustau Camps-Valls

Universitat de València

Julia Gottfriedsen

Julia Gottfriedsen

OroraTech

Bertrand Le Saux

Bertrand Le Saux

European Commission

Ankit Kariryaa

Ankit Kariryaa

University of Copenhagen

Recordings available on the workshop YouTube channel.

Program

Accepted Papers

33 papers were presented at the workshop (28 novel works, 5 recent works, 5 as orals). Papers, posters, and videos are archived on GitHub.

  • #1

    A decade of sea ice concentration retrieved from Sentinel-1

    Wulf et al.

  • #2

    A self-supervised multi-source framework and architecture for generative cross-sensor harmonization

    Dauvilliers et al.

  • #3

    A Vertical Vegetation Structure Model of Europe

    Zhang et al.

  • #4

    Altimeter and velocity data fusion for enhanced spatiotemporal resolution of the Ice Sheet elevation

    Naylor et al.

  • #5

    Beyond Building Footprints: Probing DINOv3 to Map Roof Material and Geometry

    Guthula et al.

  • #6

    Collaborative Unpaired Multimodal Representation Learning for Satellite Imagery

    Maurya et al.

  • #7

    Cryo2S1: Cross-Sensor Representation Learning for Sea Ice Radar Freeboard and Leads in Sentinel-1 SAR

    Stokholm et al.

  • #8

    EoS-FM: Can an Ensemble of Specialist Models act as a Generalist Feature Extractor?

    Adorni et al.

  • #9

    Gold Exploration using Representations from a Multispectral Autoencoder

    Tsantalidou et al.

  • #10

    GOMAA-Geo: Goal Modality Agnostic Active Geo-localization

    Sarkar et al.

  • #11

    Harnessing Multi-Modal Co-learning for Missing Earth Observation Modalities

    Mena et al.

  • #12

    HELM: Hierarchical and Explicit Label Modeling with Graph Learning for Multi-Label Image Classification

    Stoimchev et al.

  • #13

    Latent Field Reduction of Earth Observation Foundation Model

    Uebbing et al.

  • #14

    Learned Image Compression for Earth Observation: Implications for Downstream Segmentation Tasks

    Mollière et al.

  • #15

    LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Earth Observation with a Predictive Architecture

    Scheurer et al.

  • #16

    Leveraging Compact Satellite Embeddings and Graph Neural Networks for Large-Scale Poverty Mapping

    Pettersson et al.

  • #17

    M3DRS: Multi-Modal Multispectral Dataset for Remote Sensing

    Li et al.

  • #18

    MAPLE: Multi-Path Adaptive Propagation with Level-Aware Embeddings for Hierarchical Multi-Label Image Classification

    Koloski et al.

  • #19

    Mixture of Geographical Experts: Disentangling Earth

    Rangzan et al.

  • #20

    NeurEO: Dissecting Earth Observation embeddings with computational neuroscience

    Plas et al.

  • #21

    On-the-Fly OVD Adaptation with FLAME: Few-shot Localization via Active Marginal-Samples Exploration

    Refael et al.

  • #22

    Overlap-Free Modality Generalization in Remote Sensing Foundation Models

    Zhambulova et al.

  • #23

    SatOSM: Training geospatial foundation models with the Earth's largest open ground truth

    Zhang et al.

  • #24

    Scalable Geospatial Data Generation Using AlphaEarth Foundations

    Houriez et al.

  • #25

    SenForFlood: A Global Dataset for Flood Mapping

    Matosak et al.

  • #26

    SHRUG-FM: Reliability-Aware Foundation Models for Earth Observation

    Cohrs et al.

  • #27

    SkyCap: Bitemporal VHR Optical–SAR Quartets for Amplitude Change Detection and Foundation-Model Evaluation

    Weinmann et al.

  • #28

    SuperF: Neural Implicit Fields for Multi-Image Super-Resolution

    Jyhne et al.

  • #29

    Towards Methane Detection On Board Satellites

    Chen et al.

  • #30

    Towards Large Scale Geostatistical Methane Monitoring with Part-based Object Detection

    Senneville et al.

  • #31

    MoTiF: a self-supervised model for multi-source forecasting with application to tropical cyclones

  • #32

    Open-Canopy: Towards Very High Resolution Forest Monitoring

    Fogel et al. (CVPR 2025)

  • #33

    Fused Foundation Model Embeddings for Earth Observation Compression: A Winning Solution to the Embed2Scale Challenge

    Kerekes et al.

Team

Organizers

Loïc Landrieu

ENPC

Begüm Demir

BIFOLD, TU Berlin

Nico Lang

University of Copenhagen

Johannes Jakubik

IBM

Valerio Marsocci

ESA Φ-lab

Ruben Cartuyvels

ESA Φ-lab

Hui Zhang

University of Copenhagen

Program Committee Show

Thanks to the Program Committee for reviewing submissions to REO-1.

  • · Benedikt Blumenstiel
  • · Dimitri Gominski
  • · Dino Ienco
  • · Gencer Sumbul
  • · Ghjulia Sialelli
  • · Guillaume Astruc
  • · Hui Zhang
  • · Jan Dirk Wegner
  • · Johannes Jakubik
  • · Linus Scheibenreif
  • · Loïc Landrieu
  • · Lukas Drees
  • · Marc Rußwurm
  • · Mikolaj Czerkawski
  • · Nico Lang
  • · Nicolas Longépé
  • · Peter Naylor
  • · Riccardo D'Ercole
  • · Ruben Cartuyvels
  • · Sander Jyhne
  • · Steffen Knoblauch
  • · Valerio Marsocci
  • · Venkanna Babu Guthula
  • · Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot
  • · Yohann Perron
  • · Zhitong Xiong

Contact

General inquiries: contact@eurips.cc

Submissions were handled via Microsoft CMT. Peer review platform provided at no cost by Microsoft.

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