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@ARTICLE{Gomes:1041099,
author = {Gomes, Carlos and Wittmann, Isabelle and Robert, Damien and
Jakubik, Johannes and Reichelt, Tim and Maurogiovanni,
Stefano and Vinge, Rikard and Hurst, Jonas and Scheurer,
Erik and Sedona, Rocco and Brunschwiler, Thomas and
Kesselheim, Stefan and Batic, Matej and Stier, Philip and
Wegner, Jan Dirk and Cavallaro, Gabriele and Pebesma, Edzer
and Marszalek, Michael and Belenguer-Plomer, Miguel A. and
Adriko, Kennedy and Fraccaro, Paolo and Kienzler, Romeo and
Briq, Rania and Benassou, Sabrina and Lazzarini, Michele and
Albrecht, Conrad M.},
title = {{L}ossy {N}eural {C}ompression for {G}eospatial
{A}nalytics: {A} review},
journal = {IEEE geoscience and remote sensing magazine},
volume = {13},
number = {3},
issn = {2473-2397},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {IEEE},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-02140},
pages = {97-135},
year = {2025},
note = {This research is carried out as part of the Embed2Scale
project and is cofunded by the EU Horizon Europe program
under Grant Agreement 101131841. Additional funding for this
project has been provided by the Swiss State Secretariat for
Education, Research and Innovation and UK Research and
Innovation},
abstract = {Over the past decades, there has been an explosion in the
amount of available Earth observation (EO) data. The
unprecedented coverage of Earth’s surface and atmosphere
by satellite imagery has resulted in large volumes of data
that must be transmitted to ground stations, stored in data
centers, and distributed to end users. Modern Earth system
models (ESMs) face similar challenges, operating at high
spatial and temporal resolutions, producing petabytes of
data per simulated day. Data compression has gained
relevance over the past decade, with neural compression (NC)
emerging from deep learning and information theory, making
EO data and ESM outputs ideal candidates because of their
abundance of unlabeled data. In this review, we outline
recent developments in NC applied to geospatial data. We
introduce the fundamental concepts of NC, including seminal
works in its traditional applications to image and video
compression domains with a focus on lossy compression. We
discuss the unique characteristics of EO and ESM data,
contrasting them with “natural images,” and we explain
the additional challenges and opportunities they present.
Additionally, we review current applications of NC across
various EO modalities and explore the limited efforts in ESM
compression to date. The advent of self-supervised learning
(SSL) and foundation models (FMs) has advanced methods to
efficiently distill representations from vast amounts of
unlabeled data. We connect these developments to NC for EO,
highlighting the similarities between the two fields and
elaborate on the potential of transferring compressed
feature representations for machine-to-machine
communication. Based on insights drawn from this review, we
devise future directions relevant to applications in EO and
ESMs.},
cin = {JSC},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
(SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511) / 5112 - Cross-Domain
Algorithms, Tools, Methods Labs (ATMLs) and Research Groups
(POF4-511) / Embed2Scale - Earth Observation $\&$ Weather
Data Federation with AI Embeddings (101131841)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5112 /
G:(EU-Grant)101131841},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1109/MGRS.2025.3546527},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1041099},
}