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Asynchronous Remote Sensing Time-Series Fusion for Cloud Removal and Anytime Reconstruction

arXiv 2605.27726 ↗First posted 26 May 2026cs.CVcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Frequent cloud cover severely limits the usability of Sentinel-2 (S2) optical time series for Earth surface monitoring. Sentinel-1 (S1) SAR provides all-weather complementary observations, but practical S1/S2 fusion remains difficult because acquisitions are irregular and asynchronous. Many existing approaches assume temporally aligned inputs (or require external nearest-date matching) and typically restore only observed timestamps, limiting reconstruction under long gaps and preventing on-demand synthesis. We propose AGFlow (Time Aligned Generative Flow Matching), a spatiotemporal flow-matching model for S1/S2 cloud removal and time-series reconstruction with three capabilities: (1) timestamp-conditioned internal alignment that fuses asynchronous S1 and cloudy S2 observations without preprocessing-based pairing; (2) spatiotemporal, context-aware denoising that models spatial structure jointly with temporal dynamics (rather than independent per-pixel time series); and (3) anytime querying, enabling generation of cloud-free S2 frames at both observed and user-specified timestamps within the monitoring window. We evaluate on the RESTORE-DiT benchmark protocol with quantitative metrics, qualitative comparisons, and component ablations. AGFlow notably improves fully missing-frame reconstruction (MAE and RMSE reduce by 16-19% over RESTORE-DiT) and provides reliable reconstructions under persistent gaps, while also yielding competitive cloud removal performance and flexible temporal querying for downstream tasks such as dense vegetation monitoring.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Builds on 9 of its 21 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 May 2026.

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  6. 2025Effective Cloud Removal for Remote Sensing Images by an Improved Mean-Reverting Denoising Model with Elucidated Design Spacecited by 12
  7. 2023U-TILISE: A Sequence-to-sequence Model for Cloud Removal in Optical Satellite Time Seriescited by 8
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  9. 2025Semantic-Guided Cross-Sensor Super Resolution of Remote Sensing Images: A Gated Dual Conditioning Flow Matching Modelcited by 3

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