Multimodal AI and Remote Sensing for a Profitable Climate-Smart and Resilient Agriculture

Session ID#: 281715

Session Description:
Recent advances in multimodal AI, including deep learning, foundation models, and vision–language models, combined with rapid progress in remote sensing, are transforming how agricultural systems are monitored and managed under climate stress. These approaches integrate data across scales, from satellites and UAVs to in-situ sensors, enabling more precise and timely decision-making with increasing relevance to practical, farm-level outcomes. However, major challenges remain. Agricultural data are often heterogeneous and poorly standardized, limiting interoperability, scalability, and model generalization across environments. Issues such as data quality, uncertainty, missing data, and transferability hinder the transition from proof-of-concept models to robust, field-deployable solutions. This session invites contributions addressing these gaps through data-centric and model-centric approaches, including multimodal data fusion, standardized frameworks, foundation models for agriculture, and high-quality reference datasets. We encourage work that bridges sensing and decision-making while supporting actionable, economically viable solutions, enabling scalable, climate-resilient agricultural systems and improving real-world impact.
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0434 Data sets [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Alwaseela Hassan, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Agricultural Biology, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Phuong D. Dao, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, United States, Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Ignacio Ciampitti, Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yuwei Yin, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, United States
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