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GeoCore-9B: New generative model for Earth observation trained on geospatial data

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Researchers have introduced GeoCore-9B, a new 9-billion-parameter generative foundation model specifically designed for Earth observation tasks. Unlike previous models that fine-tuned natural image priors, GeoCore-9B is trained exclusively on Earth observation data using a Flow Matching-based Diffusion Transformer. It natively incorporates geospatial metadata such as latitude, longitude, and ground sample distances into its generation process. To improve training stability and accuracy, a Geospatial Semantic Alignment loss was developed to distill structural Earth surface priors from a specialist teacher network. AI

IMPACT Establishes new state-of-the-art for Earth observation tasks like cloud removal and SAR-to-optical translation.

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GeoCore-9B: New generative model for Earth observation trained on geospatial data

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeonghyeok Do, Munchurl Kim ·

    GeoCore-9B: Towards Geo-Aware Generative Foundation Models in Earth Observation

    arXiv:2608.01896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing generative models for earth observation (EO) predominantly rely on fine-tuning natural image priors, which limits their scalability and introduces perspective biases that conflict with geospatial constraints. To address thi…

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