Multi-Modal Landslide Detection from Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Imagery Using Multi-Encoder Vision Transformers and Ensemble Learning
Landslides represent a major geohazard with severe impacts on human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems, underscoring the need for accurate and timely detection approaches to support disaster risk reduction. This study proposes a modular, multi-model framework that fuses Sentinel-2 optical imagery with Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, for robust landslide detection. The methodology leverages multi-encoder vision transformers, where each data modality is processed through separate lightweight pretrained encoders, achieving strong performance in landslide detection. In addition, the integration […]