# GeoFlow: Agentic Workflow Automation for Geospatial Tasks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04719 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.04719/

## Key facts

- Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 9 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Aug 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Software engineering coding agents](https://mlsanity.com/agents/software-engineering-coding-agents/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.10762/) (2024)
- [Multi-agent Architecture Search via Agentic Supernet](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.04180/) (2025)
- [AutoFlow: Automated Workflow Generation for Large Language Model Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12821/) (2024)
- [StateFlow: Enhancing LLM Task-Solving through State-Driven Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.11322/) (2024)
- [GeoLLM-Engine: A Realistic Environment for Building Geospatial Copilots](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.15500/) (2024)
- [Multi-Agent Geospatial Copilots for Remote Sensing Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.16254/) (2025)
- [An LLM Agent for Automatic Geospatial Data Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.18792/) (2024)
- [AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.15247/) (2024)
- [Geo-OLM: Enabling Sustainable Earth Observation Studies with Cost-Efficient Open Language Models & State-Driven Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.04319/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [CangLing-KnowFlow: A Unified Knowledge-and-Flow-fused Agent for Comprehensive Remote Sensing Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.15231/) (2025)
- [RemoteAgent: Bridging Vague Human Intents and Earth Observation with RL-based Agentic MLLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.07765/) (2026)
- [PowerChain: A Verifiable Agentic AI System for Automating Distribution Grid Analyses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.17094/) (2025)
- [Agentic AI in Remote Sensing: Foundations, Taxonomy, and Emerging Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.01891/) (2026)
- [Detect by Yourself: Self-Designing Agentic Workflows for Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.27470/) (2026)
- [ANASSA: An Agentic AI Orchestration Framework for Spatial Intelligence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.14824/) (2026)
- [Earth-Agent-Pro: Towards Real-World Full-Chain Earth Observation with Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.12533/) (2026)
- [ANASSA: From High-Level Framework to Low-Level Architecture for Spatial Agentic AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.14382/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present GeoFlow, a method that automatically generates agentic workflows for geospatial tasks. Unlike prior work that focuses on reasoning decomposition and leaves API selection implicit, our method provides each agent with detailed tool-calling objectives to guide geospatial API invocation at runtime. GeoFlow increases agentic success by 6.8% and reduces token usage by up to fourfold across major LLM families compared to state-of-the-art approaches.