@prefix this: . @prefix sub: . @prefix np: . @prefix dct: . @prefix nt: . @prefix npx: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix orcid: . @prefix prov: . @prefix foaf: . sub:Head { this: a np:Nanopublication; np:hasAssertion sub:assertion; np:hasProvenance sub:provenance; np:hasPublicationInfo sub:pubinfo . } sub:assertion { sub:few-shot-eurosat-synthesis a ; dct:subject , , , ; , , , ; "2026-04-18"^^xsd:date; rdfs:label "Within-domain few-shot learning is recommended over cross-domain transfer for satellite imagery classification"; "Applicable to optical satellite imagery (Sentinel-2, Landsat) for land cover and habitat classification tasks where labeled examples are scarce. Tested on 10 broad EuroSAT land cover categories at 10 m ground resolution using RGB bands only."; "Not tested on fine-grained habitat discrimination such as distinguishing vegetation subtypes within Natura 2000 sites. Only RGB bands used — near-infrared and shortwave infrared bands, which are critical for vegetation analysis, were not included. Results may differ for non-optical sensors (SAR, LiDAR) or very high resolution imagery. The within-domain experiment used a different base/novel class split than a real monitoring scenario would require."; "For Earth observation researchers with limited labeled satellite data: if any labeled satellite imagery is available for your region (even for different classes than your target), use within-domain few-shot learning — train on common classes and classify rare ones. If no satellite training data exists at all, use an off-the-shelf ImageNet-pretrained model as a feature extractor for initial screening, then invest in labeling a small satellite dataset to improve accuracy. Complex meta-learning pipelines are not necessary — standard supervised pretraining achieves comparable results."; "Four experiments comparing within-domain and cross-domain few-shot learning on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery show that within-domain transfer (training on common satellite land cover classes, classifying rare ones) achieves 82% accuracy with 5 labeled examples per class, while cross-domain transfer from everyday photographs achieves 67–76% depending on backbone architecture and training method. The domain gap between photographs and satellite imagery reduces accuracy by 6–15 percentage points. Supervised pretraining on everyday photographs matches episodic meta-learning with 12 times less training time, but both cross-domain approaches remain below within-domain accuracy." . } sub:provenance { sub:assertion prov:wasAttributedTo orcid:0000-0002-1784-2920 . } sub:pubinfo { nt:hasLabelFromApi "few-shot learning - machine learning approach that enables a system to learn new tasks or recognize new objects from only a few examples or demonstrations, rather than requiring extensive data" . nt:hasLabelFromApi "remote sensing - acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, especially the Earth" . nt:hasLabelFromApi "land cover - nature of the physical material at the surface of the earth" . nt:hasLabelFromApi "transfer learning - research problem in machine learning (ML) that focuses on storing knowledge gained while solving one problem and applying it to a different but related problem" . orcid:0000-0002-1784-2920 foaf:name "Anne Fouilloux" . this: dct:created "2026-04-18T18:55:18.984Z"^^xsd:dateTime; dct:creator orcid:0000-0002-1784-2920; dct:license ; npx:introduces sub:few-shot-eurosat-synthesis; npx:wasCreatedAt ; nt:wasCreatedFromProvenanceTemplate ; nt:wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate , ; nt:wasCreatedFromTemplate . sub:sig npx:hasAlgorithm "RSA"; npx:hasPublicKey "MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDWv2pJnmDsBOq8OlT1aSvYXSuWT34WOp4FYqEzdnn2F0kqzcFevBqWGZDxJWC0lqCrDEuNfp2QFyPe/+nES9dlHGYIhqPi68fwK6ZiNUotRFxXou+rjFznVvUxtCL8Ede79EBHwWN61QtwSIcU12bLoZsNPFlqQASQ93BJuKlihwIDAQAB"; npx:hasSignature "FTGbwGUbqi+nCLOqOznThPR9MOLOcTesabQLyyR5desYZTqLy/St4qAbY50Y781/RcoQGvufwkJEp73g0bXf1UKhSykRwfC/NrC01/kh5emK/uuwxgbVd4+avSqwx3cXSa0i5Esx2Xv3J4WFDm8qXw2GhtmWcdDXkthZHQ6MiW4="; npx:hasSignatureTarget this:; npx:signedBy orcid:0000-0002-1784-2920 . }