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Biplov Bhandari
Aug 18, 2026, 9:34:26 AMAug 18
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Hey Geo-AI WG
Join us on 8/5/26 for a talk by Arnt Salberg on THOR: A Versatile Foundation Model for Earth Observation, Climate, and Society Applications
Arnt Salberg is a Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, where he works in image analysis, machine learning, and Earth observation. His research focuses on developing deep learning, computer vision, and remote sensing methods for image data, with applications in land cover mapping and monitoring, emergency monitoring, marine science, coastal habitat mapping, foundation models, and analysis of data from satellites, seismic sensors, and marine echosounders. Salberg has led the work on developing THOR, a multimodal foundation model for Earth observation, for the European Space Agency.
In this talk, Arnt will discuss how THOR handles heterogeneous satellite sensors, enables flexible compute-accuracy trade-offs, and supports applications including land-cover mapping, flood and drought monitoring, sea-ice analysis, and other climate and societal challenges.
Join us on 8/5/26 for a talk by Arnt Salberg on THOR: A Versatile Foundation Model for Earth Observation, Climate, and Society Applications
Arnt Salberg is a Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, where he works in image analysis, machine learning, and Earth observation. His research focuses on developing deep learning, computer vision, and remote sensing methods for image data, with applications in land cover mapping and monitoring, emergency monitoring, marine science, coastal habitat mapping, foundation models, and analysis of data from satellites, seismic sensors, and marine echosounders. Salberg has led the work on developing THOR, a multimodal foundation model for Earth observation, for the European Space Agency.
In this talk, Arnt will discuss how THOR handles heterogeneous satellite sensors, enables flexible compute-accuracy trade-offs, and supports applications including land-cover mapping, flood and drought monitoring, sea-ice analysis, and other climate and societal challenges.
📄 THOR paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16011
💻 Code: https://github.com/FM4CS/THOR
🤗 Models and resources: https://huggingface.co/FM4CS
💻 Code: https://github.com/FM4CS/THOR
🤗 Models and resources: https://huggingface.co/FM4CS
Excited for the talk!
Best,
Biplov
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Biplov
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