Foundation model improves accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation

A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed to the rapid development of remote sensing image interpretation. It makes sense to develop a foundation model with general RS feature representation. Since a large amount of unlabeled data is available, the self-supervised method has more development significance than the fully supervised method in remote sensing. The study aims to propose a remote sensing foundation model framework, which can leverage the benefits of generative self-supervised learning for RS images. RS foundation model training method is designed for dense and small objects in complicated RS scenes. RingMo is the first generative foundation model for cross-modal remote sensing data.