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ARXIV:2603.15119 · SATELLITE IMAGERY ANALYSIS · SUBMITTED 18 MAR · 22:54 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.15119SATELLITE IMAGERY ANALYSISSUBMITTED 18 MAR · 22:54 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data.
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A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which adds SAR-specific intensity-weighted loss to standard MixMAE for…
Masked auto-encoders (MAE) and related approaches have shown promise for satellite imagery, but their application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remains limited due to challenges in semantic labeling and high noise levels. Building on…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Initial results demonstrate significant performance improvements compared to training from scratch with random initialization. A public repository is linked, so build verification can inspect…
Satellite Imagery Analysis moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.15119A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data.
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Masked auto-encoders (MAE) and related approaches have shown promise for satellite imagery, but their application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remains limited due to challenges in semantic labeling and high noise levels. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which adds SAR-specific intensity-weighted loss to standard MixMAE for pretraining, we also introduce SAR-W-SimMIM; a weighted variant of SimMIM applied to ALOS-2 single-channel SAR imagery. This method aims to reduce the impact of speckle and extreme intensity values during self-supervised pretraining. We evaluate its effect on semantic segmentation compared to our previous trial with SAR-W-MixMAE and random initialization, observing notable improvements. In addition, pretraining and fine-tuning models on satellite imagery pose unique challenges, particularly when developing region-specific models. Imbalanced land cover distributions such as dominant water, forest, or desert areas can introduce bias, affecting both pretraining and downstream tasks like land cover segmentation. To address this, we constructed a SAR dataset using ALOS-2 single-channel (HH polarization) imagery focused on the Japan region, marking the initial phase toward a national-scale foundation model. This dataset was used to pretrain a vision transformer-based autoencoder, with the resulting encoder fine-tuned for semantic segmentation using a task-specific decoder. Initial results demonstrate significant performance improvements compared to training from scratch with random initialization. In summary, this work provides a guide to process and prepare ALOS2 observations to create dataset so that it can be taken advantage of self-supervised pretraining of models and finetuning downstream tasks such as semantic segmentation.
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A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which adds SAR-specific intensity-weighted loss to standard MixMAE for pretraining, we also in...
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Masked auto-encoders (MAE) and related approaches have shown promise for satellite imagery, but their application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remains limited due to challenges in semantic labeling and high noise levels. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which a...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Initial results demonstrate significant performance improvements compared to training from scratch with random initialization. A public repository is linked, so build verification can inspect implementati...
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Satellite Imagery Analysis moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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A novel approach to enhance semantic segmentation in satellite imagery using self-supervised pretraining techniques tailored for SAR data. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which adds SAR-specific intensity-weighted loss to standard MixMAE for pretraining, we also introduce SAR-W-SimMIM; a weighted variant of SimMIM applied to ALOS-2 single-channel SAR imagery.
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Masked auto-encoders (MAE) and related approaches have shown promise for satellite imagery, but their application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remains limited due to challenges in semantic labeling and high noise levels. Building on our prior work with SAR-W-MixMAE, which adds SAR-specific intensity-weighted loss to standard MixMAE for pretraining, we also introduce SAR-W-SimMIM; a weighted variant of SimMIM applied to ALOS-2 single-channel SAR imagery.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Initial results demonstrate significant performance improvements compared to training from scratch with random initialization. A public repository is linked, so build verification can inspect implementation evidence instead of treating the paper as PDF-only.
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Satellite Imagery Analysis moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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