Any-Optical-Model: A Universal Foundation Model for Optical Remote Sensing

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Authors: Association for Artificial Intelligence 2026, Danfeng Hong, Xuyang Li, Chenyu Li
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Abstract

Optical satellites, with their diverse band layouts and ground sampling distances, supply indispensable evidence for tasks ranging from ecosystem surveillance to emergency response. However, significant discrepancies in band composition and spatial resolution across different optical sensors present major challenges for existing Remote Sensing Foundation Models (RSFMs). These models are typically pretrained on fixed band configurations and resolutions, making them vulnerable to real-world scenarios involving missing bands, cross-sensor fusion, and unseen spatial scales, thereby limiting their generalization and practical deployment. To address these limitations, we propose Any-Optical-Model ($AOM$), the first universal RSFM explicitly designed to accommodate arbitrary band compositions, sensor types, and resolution scales. To preserve distinctive spectral characteristics even when bands are missing or newly introduced, $AOM$ introduces a spectrum-independent tokenizer that assigns each channel a dedicated band embedding, enabling explicit encoding of spectral identity. To effectively capture texture and contextual patterns from sub-meter to hundred-meter imagery, we design a multi-scale adaptive patch embedding mechanism that dynamically modulates the receptive field. Furthermore, to maintain global semantic consistency across varying resolutions, $AOM$ incorporates a multi-scale semantic alignment mechanism alongside a channel-wise self-supervised masking and reconstruction pretraining strategy that jointly models spectral-spatial relationships. Extensive experiments on over 10 public datasets, including those from Sentinel-2, Landsat, and HLS, demonstrate that $AOM$ consistently achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance under challenging conditions such as band-missing, cross-sensor, and cross-resolution settings. These results highlight $AOM$ as a crucial step toward building truly general-purpose RSFMs.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Remote-Sensing Image Classification Advanced Neural Network Applications Remote Sensing and Land Use

Publication details

Journal / source
Underline Science Inc.
Publication date
7 January 2026
Language
EN