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No One Knows the State of the Art in Geospatial Foundation Models

Anthony Fuller, Caleb Robinson, Evan Shelhamer, Gabriel Tseng, Hamed Alemohammad, Hannah Kerner, Isaac Corley, Jennifer Marcus, Nils Lehmann

Nobody knows the state of the art in geospatial foundation models because papers cannot be compared.

arxiv:2605.12678 v1 · 2026-05-12 · cs.CV · cs.CY

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We argue that nobody knows what the current state of the art is in geospatial foundation models.

C2weakest assumption

That the 152-paper sample is representative of the full GFM literature and that the observed disagreements stem primarily from missing standards rather than other unmeasured factors.

C3one line summary

An audit of 152 papers reveals that geospatial foundation models lack standardized evaluations, training controls, and weight releases, so no one knows the state of the art.

References

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[1] Omnisat: Self- supervised modality fusion for earth observation 2024

[2] Anysat: One earth observation model for many resolutions, scales, and modalities 2025

[3] Satlaspretrain: A large-scale dataset for remote sensing image understanding 2023

[4] Olmoearth: Stable latent image modeling for multimodal earth observation 2025

[5] On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models 2021 · arXiv:2108.07258

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arxiv: 2605.12678 · arxiv_version: 2605.12678v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.12678

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