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A Sentinel-3 Foundation Model for Ocean Colour

Dawson et al. · 2025-09-25

This study introduces a new foundation model based on the Prithvi-EO Vision Transformer, pre-trained on Sentinel-3 ocean color data, to enhance marine Earth observation. By fine-tuning on chlorophyll and primary production tasks, the model outperforms traditional baselines, showing that self-trained AI can extract detailed spatial patterns from limited labeled data and improve monitoring of ocean ecosystems and climate processes.

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Dawson et al.. 2025-09-25. A Sentinel-3 Foundation Model for Ocean Colour. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21273 (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record paper-393; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).

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Sentinel-3 Foundation Models for Ocean Conservation and Land Mapping
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