Towards Consistent Geospatial Representations: Aligning One Encoder to Many Foundation Models
Arthur Ouaknine ⋅ David Rolnick
Abstract
Geospatial foundation models (GFMs) differ widely in pretraining objective, modality and resolution, and none leads across benchmarks. We ask whether their representations are complementary, and whether a single encoder can inherit that complementarity. We introduce \textsc{Pangaea-Latents}, an extension of the \textsc{Pangaea} benchmark providing frozen embeddings of $5$ GFMs over its $11$ datasets, along with reproduced baselines, and find GFM embeddings to be neither redundant nor disjoint. We then propose \textsc{GeoMixture}, a preliminary framework to align a ViT to GFMs through a multi-representation alignment (mREPA) objective. Our encoder reaches the best average rank on nine \textsc{Pangaea} datasets without ranking first on any, trading peak performance for consistency across tasks.
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