Today we release a prototype of COP-GEN - a universal generative model for Copernicus data. ๐๐๐-๐๐๐-๐๐๐ญ๐ is a model trained globally on the thumbnails of the Major TOM Core datasets, including Sentinel-2 L1C, Sentinel-2 L2A, Sentinel-1 RTC, and COP-DEM GLO-30.
How is it universal? COP-GEN learns a joint generative process of all modalities, which means that it can reconstruct data from any subset of present observations. ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ to perform any of these tasks it can be used to approximate:
โ Sentinel-1 to Sentinel-2 translation
โ Elevation estimation from Sentinel-2 or Sentinel-1
โ Atmospheric Correction (L1C to L2A pipeline)
โ Atmospheric Generation (L2A to L1C)
โ ...and any other task involving translation between the supported modalities
On its own, the model can be used as a useful prior for estimating the data likelihood distribution for Copernicus data. COP-GEN-Beta learns joint, conditional, and marginal distributions within a single unified backbone, allowing to flexibly sample any modality given any condition.
Why is it Beta? Because thumbnails are a low-cost representation of the data that scales well and we managed to develop this prototype quite fast. We are currently developing the more costly COP-GEN model that supports the original data. For now, we wanted to showcase the prototype and make it available to the community for a test!
๐๐๐๐ ๐๏ธ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ญ-๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ MESA is a novel generative model based on latent denoising diffusion capable of generating 2.5D representations (co-registered colour and depth maps) of terrains based on text prompt conditioning.
Work developed by Paul BorneโPons (@NewtNewt) during his joint internship at Adobe & ESA, and in collaboration with asterisk labs.
๐งฑ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก: our community continues to grow! To coordinate the upcoming expansions as well as use cases of the open data, we will organise a meet up on 23 April, you can ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ here: https://forms.gle/eBj8JvibJx9b6PLf9
๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ: Major-TOM Core dataset is currently supporting several strands of ongoing research within and outwith our lab and we are looking forward to the time when we can release models that take advantage of that data! Major-TOM
๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐๐: We will present Major TOM project as a poster at IGARSS in Athens (July) - come talk to us if you're there! You can access the paper here: Major TOM: Expandable Datasets for Earth Observation (2402.12095)
๐ Developed at European Space Agency ฮฆ-lab in partnership with Hugging Face
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