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  1. 2026
  2. DPA: A One-Stop Metric to Measure Bias Amplification in Classification Datasets
    Bhanu Tokas, Rahul Nair, Hannah Kerner
    NeurIPS 2026
  3. A Woman with a Knife or a Knife with a Woman? Measuring Directional Bias Amplification in Image Captions
    Rahul Nair, Bhanu Tokas, Hannah Kerner
    WACV 2026
  4. Multi-Head LatentMoE and Head Parallel: Communication-Efficient and Deterministic MoE Parallelism
    Chenwei Cui, Rockwell Jackson, Benjamin Joseph Herrera, Ana María Tárano, Hannah Kerner
    ICML 2026
  5. MOMO: Mars Orbital Model Foundation Model for Mars Orbital Applications
    Mirali Purohit, Bimal Gajera, Irish Mehta, Bhanu Tokas, Jacob Adler, Steven Lu, Scott Dickenshied, Serina Diniega, Brian Bue, Umaa Rebbapragada, et al.
    CVPR 2026
  6. PRUE: A Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale
    Gedeon Muhawenayo, Caleb Robinson, Subash Khanal, Zhanpei Fang, Isaac Corley, Alexander Wollam, Tianyi Gao, Leonard Strnad, Ryan Avery, Lyndon Estes, et al.
    CVPR 2026
  7. OlmoEarth: Stable Latent Image Modeling for Multimodal Earth Observation
    Henry Herzog, Favyen Bastani, Yawen Zhang, Gabriel Tseng, Joseph Redmon, Hadrien Sablon, Ryan Park, Jacob Morrison, et al.
    CVPR 2026
  8. Earth Embeddings: Toward artificial intelligence-centric representations of our planet
    Konstantin Klemmer, Esther Rolf, Marc Ru{\ss}wurm, Gustau Camps-Valls, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Stefano Ermon, Alistair Francis, Nathan Jacobs, Hannah Kerner, Lester Mackey, et al.
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
  9. {GEO}-Bench-2: From Performance to Capability, Rethinking Evaluation in Geospatial {AI}
    Naomi Simumba, Nils Lehmann, Paolo Fraccaro, Hamed Alemohammad, Geeth De Mel, Salman Khan, Manil Maskey, Nicolas Longépé, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Hannah Kerner, Juan Bernabe Moreno, Alexandre Lacoste
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research
  10. No One Knows the State of the Art in Geospatial Foundation Models
    Isaac Corley, Nils Lehmann, Caleb Robinson, Gabriel Tseng, Anthony Fuller, Hamed Alemohammad, Evan Shelhamer, Jennifer Marcus, Hannah Kerner
    Arxiv
  11. EarthShift: a benchmark for measuring robustness to real-world distribution shifts in Earth observation
    Kelsey Doerksen, Hannah Kerner
    Arxiv
  12. Fields of the Planet: Field Boundary Mapping Beyond 10m
    Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marcus, Hannah Kerner
    Arxiv
  13. Pretrain Where? Investigating How Pretraining Data Diversity Impacts Geospatial Foundation Model Performance
    Amandeep Kaur, Mirali Purohit, Gedeon Muhawenayo, Esther Rolf, Hannah Kerner
    CVPR 2026 Workshops
  14. Optimizing satellite-based cropland area estimation through integrated map accuracy assessment and stratified sampling design across six African countries
    Adebowale Daniel Adebayo, Catherine Nakalembe, Sergii Skakun, Diana Botchway Frimpong, Alana Ginsburg, Yash Hitesh Gadhiya, Monica Adjei, Hannah Kerner, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  15. 2025
  16. A Framework for EO-Based National Agricultural Monitoring (EO-NAM) for the African Context
    Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner, Ivan Zvonkov, Michael Humber, Andres Galvez, Edna Makabe, Stefano Venturini, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    npj Sustainable Agriculture 2025
  17. A Novel Deep Learning Algorithm for Broad Scale Seagrass Extent Mapping in Shallow Coastal Environments
    Jiwei Peng, Jiwei Li, Thomas C. Ingalls, Steven R. Schill, Hannah R. Kerner, Gregory P. Asner
    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2025
  18. Accelerating Research on SDG2 'Zero Hunger' by Opening Commercial Very-High Resolution Satellite Image Archives
    Philippe Rufin, et al. (Hannah Kerner one of 16 authors)
    PNAS 2025
  19. How Does the Spatial Distribution of Pre-training Data Affect Geospatial Foundation Models?
    Muskaan Purohit, Gedeon Muhawenayo, Esther Rolf, Hannah Kerner
    AAAI Preparing Good Data for Generative AI Workshop 2025
  20. Data Augmentation Approaches for Satellite Imagery
    Lauren Hopkins, Wai-Ki Wong, Hannah Kerner, Fei Li, Rebecca Hutchinson
    AAAI 2025
  21. Hotspotter: A Generalizable Pipeline for Automated Detection of Subtle Volcanic Thermal Features in Satellite Images
    Ashna Mohan, Andrea Gomez-Patron, Matthew Pritchard, Hannah Kerner
    AAAI 2025
  22. Fields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset for Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation
    Hannah Kerner, Snehal Chaudhari, Aninda Ghosh, Caleb Robinson, Akram Ahmad, Eddie Choi, Nathan Jacobs, Connor Holmes, Michael Mohr, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jason Marcus
    AAAI 2025
  23. Classification Drives Geographic Bias in Street Scene Segmentation
    Rahul Nair, Gabriel Tseng, Esther Rolf, Bhanu Tokas, Hannah Kerner
    CVPR Fair, Data-Efficient, and Trusted CV Workshop 2025
  24. Task-Informed Meta-Learning for Remote Sensing
    Gabriel Tseng, Hannah Kerner, David Rolnick
    CVPR EarthVision Workshop 2025
  25. DataS3: Dataset Subset Selection for Specialization
    Nikhil Hulkund, Amro Maalouf, Linda Cai, Dennis Yang, Addison O'Neill, Timo Haucke, Soham Mukherjee, Vivek V. Ramaswamy, Junhong Shen, Gabriel Tseng, Mike Walmsley, Tai-Hua Wang, Hannah Kerner, Irene Y. Chen, Yogesh Girdhar, Daniela Rus, Ken Goldberg, Sara Beery
    ICML DataWorld Workshop 2025
  26. Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities
    Gabriel Tseng, Archie Fuller, Michael Reil, Hannah Herzog, Patrick Beukema, Favyen Bastani, Joseph Redmon Green, Evan Shelhamer, Hannah Kerner, David Rolnick
    ICML Terrabytes Workshop 2025
  27. Deploying Geospatial Foundation Models in the Real World
    Cristhian Butsko, Gabriel Tseng, Kristof Van Tricht, Gabriele Milli, David Rolnick, Ruben Cartuyvels, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Zoltan Szantoi, Hannah Kerner
    PMLR 2025 (to appear)
  28. Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
    Mirali Purohit, Bimal Gajera, Vatsal Malaviya, Irish Mehta, Kunal Sunil Kasodekar, Jacob Adler, Steven Lu, Umaa Rebbapragada, Hannah Kerner
    NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks 2025
  29. Galileo: Learning Global and Local Features in Pretrained Remote Sensing Models
    Gabriel Tseng, Archie Fuller, Michael Reil, Hannah Herzog, Patrick Beukema, Favyen Bastani, Joseph Redmon Green, Evan Shelhamer, Hannah Kerner, David Rolnick
    ICML 2025
  30. Remote sensing for crop mapping: A perspective on current and future crop-specific land cover data products
    Chen Zhang, Hannah Kerner, Sherrie Wang, Pengyu Hao, Zhe Li, Kevin A. Hunt, Jonathon Abernethy, Haoteng Zhao, Feng Gao, Liping Di, et al.
    Remote Sensing of Environment
  31. Helmets labeling crops: Kenya crop type dataset created via helmet-mounted cameras and deep learning
    Catherine Nakalembe, Ivan Zvonkov, Hannah Kerner, Diana Botchway Frimpong, Kenneth Mwangi, Jane Kioko, Bhanu Tokas, Kartik Jawanjal, Iman Akhtar Smith, Anjali Paliyam, and others
    Scientific Data
  32. 2024
  33. A 40-Year Remote Sensing Analysis of Spatiotemporal Temperature and Rainfall Patterns in Senegal
    Catherine L. Nakalembe, Doris B. Frimpong, Hannah Kerner, Mouhamadou A. Sarr
    Frontiers in Climate 2024
  34. An All-MLP Sequence Modeling Architecture That Excels at Copying
    Chuangchuang Cui, Zihan Yan, Gedeon Muhawenayo, Hannah Kerner
    ICML Next Generation Sequence Modeling Workshop 2024
  35. The Promise and Pitfalls of Machine Learning in Ocean Remote Sensing
    Peter C. Gray, Emmanuel Boss, J. Xavier Prochaska, Hannah Kerner, Charley B. Demeaux, Yoav Lehahn
    Oceanography 2024
  36. Sat2Cap: Mapping Fine-Grained Textual Descriptions from Satellite Images
    Aayush Dhakal, Akram Ahmad, Subash Khanal, Sravan Sastry, Hannah Kerner, Nathan Jacobs
    CVPR EarthVision Workshop 2024 · Best Paper Award
  37. How Accurate Are Existing Land Cover Maps for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa?
    Hannah Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe, Anna Yang, Ivan Zvonkov, Ryland McWeeny, Gabriel Tseng, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    Nature Scientific Data 2024
  38. Satellite Data Shows Resilience of Tigrayan Farmers in Crop Cultivation During Civil War
    Hannah Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe, Benjamin Yeh, Ivan Zvonkov, Sergii Skakun, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Amy McNally
    Science of Remote Sensing 2024
  39. Assessing and Addressing the Global State of Food Production Data Scarcity
    Emebet A. Kebede, Hala Abou Ali, Tyler Clavelle, Halley E. Froehlich, Jessica A. Gephart, Steffanie Hartman, Mario Herrero, Hannah Kerner, Priya Mehta, Catherine Nakalembe, Deepak K. Ray, Stefan Siebert, Philip Thornton, Kyle F. Davis
    Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2024
  40. Application-Driven Innovation in Machine Learning
    David Rolnick, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Sara Beery, Bistra Dilkina, Priya L. Donti, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Hannah Kerner, Claire Monteleoni, Esther Rolf, Milind Tambe, Adam White
    ICML 2024
  41. Mission Critical — Satellite Data is a Distinct Modality in Machine Learning
    Esther Rolf, Konstantin Klemmer, Caleb Robinson, Hannah Kerner
    ICML 2024 · Spotlight (3.5%)
  42. 2023
  43. Multi-Region Transfer Learning for Segmentation of Crop Field Boundaries in Satellite Images with Limited Labels
    Hannah Kerner, Shreyas Sundar, Muskaan Satish
    AAAI Workshop 2023
  44. Automated Multi-class Crater Segmentation in Mars Orbital Images
    Shreyansh Malvi, Heshani Shah, Niyati Chandarana, Muskaan Purohit, Jacob Adler, Hannah Kerner
    ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI Workshop 2023
  45. Lightweight, Pre-trained Transformers for Remote Sensing Timeseries
    Gabriel Tseng, Ivan Zvonkov, Muskaan Purohit, David Rolnick, Hannah Kerner
    arXiv 2023
  46. Lightweight, Pre-trained Transformers for Remote Sensing Timeseries
    Gabriel Tseng, Ivan Zvonkov, Muskaan Purohit, David Rolnick, Hannah Kerner
    NeurIPS Climate Change AI Workshop 2023
  47. Considerations for AI-EO for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    Environmental Research Letters 2023
  48. Automatic Characterization of Boulders on Planetary Surfaces from High-Resolution Satellite Images
    Naomi C. Prieur, Beatriz Amaro, Esteban Gonzalez, Hannah Kerner, Sergei Medvedev, Lior Rubanenko, Stephanie Werner, Zhiyong Xiao, Dmitry Zastrozhnov, Mathieu G. Lapôtre
    JGR: Planets 2023
  49. ConeQuest: A Benchmark for Cone Detection on Mars
    Muskaan Purohit, Jacob Adler, Hannah Kerner
    WACV 2023 · Oral (2.5%)
  50. OpenMapFlow: A Library for Rapid Map Creation with Machine Learning and Remote Sensing Data
    Ivan Zvonkov, Gabriel Tseng, Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    AAAI 2023
  51. GEO-Bench: Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring
    Alexandre Lacoste, Nils Lehmann, Pau Rodriguez, Evan D. Sherwin, Hannah Kerner, Bjorn Lütjens, Jeremy A. Irvin, David Dao, Hamed Alemohammad, Alexandre Drouin, Mehmet Hamdi Gunturkun, Gabriel Huang, David Vazquez, Dava Newman, Yoshua Bengio, Stefano Ermon, Xiaoxiang Zhu
    NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks 2023
  52. 2022
  53. TIML: Task-Informed Meta-Learning for Crop Type Mapping
    Gabriel Tseng, Hannah Kerner, David Rolnick
    AAAI AI for Agriculture and Food Systems Workshop 2022
  54. Applications and Considerations for AI-EO for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Catherine L. Nakalembe, Hannah R. Kerner
    AAAI Social Impact of AI for Africa Workshop 2022
  55. Geo-Referencing Crop Labels from Street-Level Images Using Structure from Motion
    Srinivasan Manimurugan, Rajesh Singaram, Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022
  56. Generating Landslide Density Heatmaps for Rapid Detection Using Open-Access Satellite Radar Data in Google Earth Engine
    Alexander L. Handwerger, Mong-Han Huang, Stephanie Y. Jones, Pukar Amatya, Hannah R. Kerner, Dalia B. Kirschbaum
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2022
  57. High-Resolution Regional Digital Elevation Models and Derived Products from MESSENGER MDIS Images
    Matthew R. Manheim, Mark R. Henriksen, Mark S. Robinson, Hannah R. Kerner, Brett A. Karas, Kris J. Becker, Matthew Chojnacki, Sarah S. Sutton, David T. Blewett
    Remote Sensing 2022
  58. Spectral Diversity of Rocks and Soils in Mastcam Observations Along the Curiosity Rover's Traverse in Gale Crater, Mars
    Melissa S. Rice, Christiana Seeger, James Bell, Fred Calef, Marie St Clair, Amanda Eng, Abigail A. Fraeman, Candice Hughes, Briony Horgan, Samantha Jacob, Jeffrey Johnson, Hannah Kerner, Kjartan Kinch, Mark Lemmon, Chase Million, Michelle Starr, Danika Wellington
    JGR: Planets 2022
  59. Guiding Field Exploration on Earth and Mars with Outlier Detection
    Hannah R. Kerner, Jacob B. Adler
    IGARSS 2022
  60. Domain-Agnostic Outlier Ranking Algorithms — A Configurable Pipeline for Facilitating Outlier Detection in Scientific Datasets
    Hannah R. Kerner, Umaa Rebbapragada, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Steven Lu, Bogdan Dubayah, Emily Huff, Vineeth Raman, Shravya Kulshrestha
    Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 2022
  61. Phenological Normalization Can Improve In-Season Classification of Maize and Soybean: A Case Study in the Central US Corn Belt
    Hannah R. Kerner, Ritvik Sahajpal, Divyani B. Pai, Sergii Skakun, Eduardo Puricelli, Mehdi Hosseini, Seth Meyer, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    Science of Remote Sensing 2022
  62. 2021
  63. Integrating Novelty Detection Capabilities with MSL Mastcam Operations to Enhance Data Analysis
    Paige Horton, Hannah Kerner, Samantha Jacobs, Emily Cisneros, Kiri L. Wagstaff, James F. Bell III
    IEEE Aerospace Conference 2021
  64. Learning to Predict Crop Type from Heterogeneous Sparse Labels Using Meta-Learning
    Gabriel Tseng, Hannah Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    CVPR EarthVision Workshop 2021
  65. Street2Sat: A Machine Learning Pipeline for Generating Ground-truth Geo-referenced Labeled Datasets from Street-Level Images
    Mahesh Paliyam, Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    ICML Tackling Climate Change with AI Workshop 2021
  66. Using Transfer Learning to Study Burned Area Dynamics: A Case Study of Refugee Settlements in West Nile, Northern Uganda
    Remy Huppertz, Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    KDD Humanitarian Mapping Workshop 2021 · Oral
  67. Strategies for Landslide Detection Using Open-Access Synthetic Aperture Radar Backscatter Change in Google Earth Engine
    Alexander L. Handwerger, Stephanie Y. Jones, Pukar Amatya, Hannah R. Kerner, Dalia B. Kirschbaum, Mong-Han Huang
    NHESS Discussions 2021
  68. Mapping the Location and Extent of 2019 Prevent Planting Acres in South Dakota Using Remote Sensing Techniques
    Abdul Lawal, Hannah Kerner, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Seth Meyer
    Remote Sensing 2021
  69. Temporally Generalizable Land Cover Classification: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Unveils Major Coastal Change Through Time
    Peter C. Gray, Diego F. Chamorro, Jason T. Ridge, Hannah R. Kerner, Emily A. Ury, David W. Johnston
    Remote Sensing 2021
  70. Persistent Impact of Spring Floods on Crop Loss in U.S. Midwest
    Manoochehr Shirzaei, Mostafa Khoshmanesh, Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, Hannah Kerner, Grace Carlson, Suyog Fwa Sherpa, Guang Zhai, Jiyoung Lee
    Weather and Climate Extremes 2021
  71. Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring: Proposal for a Climate Change Benchmark
    Alexandre Lacoste, Evan Sherwin, Hannah Kerner, Hamed Alemohammad, Bjorn Lutjens, Jeremy Irvin, David Dao, Andrew Chang, Mehmet Hamdi Gunturkun, Alexandre Drouin, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez
    NeurIPS Tackling Climate Change with AI Workshop 2021
  72. CropHarvest: A Global Satellite Dataset for Crop Type Classification
    Gabriel Tseng, Ivan Zvonkov, Catherine Nakalembe, Hannah Kerner
    NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks 2021
  73. 2020
  74. Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade
    Abigail R. Azari, John B. Biersteker, Ryan M. Dewey, Gary Doran, Eric Forsberg, Christian D.K. Harris, Hannah R. Kerner, Katherine A. Skinner, Ariel W. Smith
    NRC Decadal Survey White Paper 2020
  75. Novelty-Driven Onboard Targeting for Mars Rovers
    Kiri L. Wagstaff, Raymond Francis, Hannah Kerner, Steven Lu, Francis Nerrise
    i-SAIRAS 2020
  76. Annual and In-Season Mapping of Cropland at Field Scale with Sparse Labels
    Gabriel Tseng, Hannah Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    NeurIPS Tackling Climate Change with AI Workshop 2020
  77. Field-Level Crop Type Classification with k-Nearest Neighbors: A Baseline for a New Kenya Smallholder Dataset
    Hannah R. Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    ICLR Workshop 2020
  78. Rapid Response Crop Maps in Data Sparse Regions
    Hannah R. Kerner, Gabriel Tseng, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Brian Barker, Blake Munshell, Mahesh Paliyam, Mehdi Hosseini
    KDD Workshop 2020
  79. Resilient In-Season Crop Type Classification in Multispectral Satellite Observations Using Growth Stage Normalization
    Hannah R. Kerner, Ritvik Sahajpal, Sergii Skakun, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Brian Barker, Mehdi Hosseini
    KDD Workshop 2020
  80. Evaluating the Impact of the 2020 Iowa Derecho on Corn and Soybean Fields Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
    Mehdi Hosseini, Hannah Kerner, Ritvik Sahajpal, Eduardo Puricelli, Yuan-Hsin Lu, Abdul Lawal, Michael L. Humber, Matthew Mitkish, Seth Meyer, Inbal Becker-Reshef
    Remote Sensing 2020
  81. Analysis of Active Neutron Measurements from the Mars Science Laboratory Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons Instrument
    Hannah R. Kerner, Craig Hardgrove, Sean Czarnecki, Travis S.J. Gabriel, Igor Mitrofanov, Maxim Litvak, Anton Sanin, Dmitry Lisov
    JGR: Planets 2020
  82. Comparison of Novelty Detection Methods for Multispectral Images in Rover-Based Planetary Exploration Missions
    Hannah R. Kerner, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Brian D. Bue, Danika F. Wellington, Samantha Jacob, Paige Horton, James F. Bell, Chiman Kwan, Heni Ben Amor
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2020
  83. 2019
  84. Deep Learning Methods Toward Generalized Change Detection on Planetary Surfaces
    Hannah R. Kerner, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Brian D. Bue, Peter Gray, James F. Bell III, Heni Ben Amor
    JSTARS 2019
  85. Novelty Detection for Multispectral Images with Application to Planetary Exploration
    Hannah R. Kerner, Danika F. Wellington, Kiri L. Wagstaff, James F. Bell III, Chiman Kwan, Heni Ben Amor
    AAAI 2019 · Oral
  86. 2018
  87. Context-Dependent Image Quality Assessment of JPEG-Compressed Mars Science Laboratory Mastcam Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
    Hannah R. Kerner, Heni Ben Amor, James F. Bell III
    Computers and Geosciences 2018
  88. 2017
  89. Demosaicing Enhancement Using Pixel-Level Fusion
    Chiman Kwan, Bence Chou, Liyun Kwan, Jude Larkin, Bulent Ayhan, James F. Bell III, Hannah R. Kerner
    Signal, Image and Video Processing 2017