IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2026

August 9-14, 2026 | Washington, D.C.

Kitware is excited to participate in the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2026 in Washington, D.C. Each year, IGARSS brings together the global remote sensing community to share research, discuss emerging technologies, and build new collaborations. This year’s theme, The Future of Earth Observations, reflects the conference’s focus on advancing remote sensing to better understand our changing world.

Our team is proud to contribute to the IGARSS 2026 technical program with two accepted papers that span geospatial datasets and foundation models for remote sensing.

Featured Presentations

Evaluating the Coverage and Quality of Open Source Building Footprint Datasets

Trevor Stout, Dennis Melamed, and Cameron Johnson
Session: WE1.R16: Urban: GeoAI and Deep Learning for Urban Infrastructure II
Location: Lincoln East
Presentation Time: Wednesday, 12 August, 08:45 – 09:00

Akupara: Peta-Scale Pretraining for Geospatial Foundational Models

Christopher Funk, Ph.D., David DePauw, Kitware, United States; Charith Wickrema, Eliza Mace, MITRE, United States; Declan Kutscher, University of California, Berkeley, United States; Heidys Cabrera, Shivangi Sarkar, Eric Hughes, Guido Zarrella, MITRE, United States; Matt Leotta, Kitware, United States; Ritwik Gupta, University of Maryland, United States
Session: THP1.PB: The prospect of Remote Sensing Foundation Models: From Generation to Application
Location: Columbia, Poster Area B
Presentation Time: Thursday, 13 August, 09:45 – 11:00