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by Begüm Demir Technische Universität Berlin Prof. Demir will share her team’s recent advances in foundation models for Earth observation (EO). She will highlight their EO Foundation Model Database, the first structured, schema-guided resource cataloging over 150 EO models across diverse data modalities and learning paradigms. She will then introduce REMSA (Remote-sensing Model Selection Agent), the first LLM agent for automated EO model selection via natural language queries. Her talk will also cover model efficiency, including their soft mixture-of-experts approach, and outline future research directions. Webinar sponsored by GRSS Germany Chapter Learn more: https://www.grss-ieee.org/event/from-efficient-foundation-models-to-ai-agents-for-foundation-model-recommendation-to-advance-earth-observation/

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