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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WE4.R15: Geo-foundation and generative models for EO-based informed disaster risk response
Wednesday, 12 August, 16:15 - 17:30
Location: Jefferson West
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Stefan Lang, University of Salzburg and Royston Rodrigues, NEC Corporation
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Wed, 12 Aug, 16:15 - 16:30

WE4.R15.1: Towards Operational Readiness of Geospatial Foundation Model for Near Real-Time Earth Observation
Venkatesh Kolluru, Rajat Shinde, Abdelhak Marouane, Caden Helbling, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Othneil Drew, Space and Earth Science Data Analysis; Deepak Shah, Iksha Gurung, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Manil Maskey, Rahul Ramachandran, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Wed, 12 Aug, 16:30 - 16:45

WE4.R15.2: CROSS-VIEW IMAGE GEO-LOCALIZATION IN DISASTER SCENARIOS: MITIGATING DATA SCARCITY WITH GENERATED IMAGERY
Royston Rodrigues, NEC Corporation; Haoyu Li, The University of Tokyo
Wed, 12 Aug, 16:45 - 17:00

WE4.R15.3: CF-MAE: A CHANGE FUSED MASKED AUTOENCODER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION BASED MULTI-HAZARD CHANGE DETECTION
Ananda Krishnan, Getachew Workineh Gella, Bruno Menini Matosak, Stefan Lang, University of Salzburg
Wed, 12 Aug, 17:00 - 17:15

WE4.R15.4: FLOOD DETECTION FROM SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY USING DIFFUSION-BASED SYNTHETIC DATA AUGMENTATION
Akanksha Pawar, Bettahalli N. Keshavamurthy, National Institute of Technology Goa, India