Earth-OneVision: New AI Model Unifies Multiple Earth Observation Sensor Types for Remote Sensing Tasks
Researchers have introduced Earth-OneVision, a 2-billion parameter multimodal large language model that integrates six satellite and aerial sensor types—optical, SAR, infrared, multispectral, temporal, and video—into a single autoregressive system for earth observation tasks. Existing remote sensing AI models are limited to narrow sensor ranges and task categories, leaving cross-modal geoscientific data underutilized. The model's ability to match or outperform models up to 72 billion parameters suggests significant efficiency gains for geospatial AI applications.
Earth-OneVision is a newly proposed remote sensing multimodal large language model (RS-MLLM) with 2 billion parameters, designed to unify six sensor modalities and nine task categories within a single autoregressive framework. The system addresses three core technical bottlenecks through dedicated mechanisms: Full-Granularity Vision-Language Alignment (FGVLA) for multi-level feature alignment, Spatial-Linguistic Isomorphic Serialization (SLIS) for handling heterogeneous spatial outputs, and Progressive Cross-Modality Adaptation (PCMA) for bridging domain gaps across sensor types. To enable joint training, the authors constructed MMRS-OneVision, a dataset of approximately 34 million question-answer pairs spanning all six modalities and cross-sensor fusion scenarios, which substantially exceeds existing remote sensing instruction datasets in scale. Benchmark results show the model achieves 87.52% precision at 0.5 IoU on optical visual grounding, 80.68% on the SAR visual question answering benchmark SARLANG-Bench (exceeding 7B models by over 7%), 75.74% recall on multispectral classification, and 81.94% accuracy on cross-modality reasoning. The work was submitted to arXiv in June 2026 and has not yet undergone formal peer review.
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As a preprint, the paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, and independent replication of benchmark results has not been reported. The paper does not detail computational training costs, energy consumption, or hardware requirements, which are relevant for assessing real-world deployability. Limitations regarding performance on rare sensor combinations or geographically underrepresented regions are not discussed in the abstract.
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Earth-OneVision: Extending Remote Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models to More Sensor Modalities and Tasks
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