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From Equations to Geospatial Foundation models. What comes next for forest prediction?

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GeoFMs extend this trajectory through large-scale self-supervised pretraining on Earth observation data, offering the potential to reduce dependence on task-specific labelled datasets and transfer learned representations across contexts and prediction tasks.

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