Copernicus Foundation Models for a Thinking Earth

Project Information

ThinkingEarth

Grant agreement ID: 101130544

DOI

10.3030/101130544

EC signature date 14 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 2 999 875,00

EU contribution

€ 2 999 875,00

Coordinated by

ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON
Greece

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan v1

1st version of the DMP formulation, contributing in making data FAIR.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website & Communication Plan and Material

Website up and running along with any other material will support outreach activities (brochures, leaflets, video, newsletter etc.). This will be accompanied by a short report on the project communication and dissemination plan, identifying target audiences, key messages, channels, tools and metrics.

Other (1)

Interactive prototype of the Earth as a Graph v1

1st version of the digital replica of the Earth as a Graph powered by NVIDIA

Documents, reports (3)

Earth as a Graph Model v1

1st version of the Earth as a Graph model including graph SSL and Causal analysis methods for capturing teleconnections.

Copernicus Foundation Models v1

1st version of the Copernicus foundation models, including methods for SSL, fusion and out-of-distribution generalization.

Dissemination and communication activity v1

Detailed report (1st version) of the outreach and liaison activities that took place during the project. Update of the plan as necessary

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Multilabel-Guided Soft Contrastive Learning for Efficient Earth Observation Pretraining

Author(s): Yi Wang, Conrad M. Albrecht, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 62, 2024, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3466896

Comparative Analysis of Learning-Based Approaches for Change Detection in Satellite Images

Author(s): Maria-Eirini Pegia, Björn Þór Jónsson, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3522350

Self-Supervised Pretraining With Monocular Height Estimation for Semantic Segmentation

Author(s): Zhitong Xiong, Sining Chen, Yilei Shi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 62, 2024, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3412629

Photovoltaics Energy Potential in the Largest Greek Cities: Atmospheric and Urban Fabric Effects, Climatic Trends Influences and Socio-Economic Benefits

Author(s): Stavros Vigkos, Panagiotis G. Kosmopoulos
Published in: Energies, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/EN17153821

Ray-Tracing modeling for urban photovoltaic energy planning and management

Author(s): Panagiotis Kosmopoulos, Harshal Dhake, Danai Kartoudi, Anastasios Tsavalos, Pelagia Koutsantoni, Apostolos Katranitsas, Nikolaos Lavdakis, Eftihia Mengou, Yashwant Kashyap
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 369, 2024, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2024.123516

Multi-Layer Cloud Motion Vector Forecasting for Solar Energy Applications

Author(s): Panagiotis Kosmopoulos, Harshal Dhake, Nefeli Melita, Konstantinos Tagarakis, Aggelos Georgakis, Avgoustinos Stefas, Orestis Vaggelis, Valentina Korre, Yashwant Kashyap
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 353, 2024, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2023.122144

Conference proceedings (4)

MUDDAT: A Sentinel-2 Image-Based Muddy Water Benchmark Dataset for Environmental Monitoring

Author(s): Christos Psychalas, Konstantinos Vlachos, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642051

Kuro Siwo: 33 billion m2 under the water A global multi-temporal satellite dataset for rapid flood mapping

Author(s): Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Maria Sdraka, Angelos Zavras, Ilektra Karasante, Andreas Karavias, Themistocles Herekakis, Angeliki Thanasou, Dimitrios Michail, Ioannis Papoutsis
Published in: NIPS '24: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
Publisher: Curran Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.5555/3737916.3739120

Assessing the Causal Impact of Humanitarian Aid on Food Security

Author(s): Jordi Cerdà-Bautista, José María Tárraga, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou, Gustau Camps-Valls
Published in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642230

FoMo: Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale and Multi-Task Remote Sensing Foundation Models for Forest Monitoring

Author(s): Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Arthur Ouaknine, Ioannis Papoutsis, David Rolnick
Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Issue 39, 2025, ISSN 2374-3468
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
DOI: 10.1609/AAAI.V39I27.35002