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UNIGEOCLIP: Unified Geospatial Contrastive Learning

UNIGEOCLIP is a multimodal contrastive framework that aligns multiple geospatial data types in a unified embedding space through all-to-all alignment and improved spatial encoding.

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2026
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arXiv 2026
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The growing availability of co-located geospatial data spanning aerial imagery, street-level views, elevation models, text, and geographic coordinates offers a unique opportunity for multimodal representation learning. We introduce UNIGEOCLIP, a massively multimodal contrastive framework to jointly align five complementary geospatial modalities in a single unified embedding space. Unlike prior approaches that fuse modalities or rely on a central pivot representation, our method performs all-to-all contrastive alignment, enabling seamless comparison, retrieval, and reasoning across arbitrary combinations of modalities. We further propose a scaled latitude-longitude encoder that improves spatial representation by capturing multi-scale geographic structure. Extensive experiments across downstream geospatial tasks demonstrate that UNIGEOCLIP consistently outperforms single-modality contrastive models and coordinate-only baselines, highlighting the benefits of holistic multimodal geospatial alignment. A reference implementation is available at https://gastruc.github.io/unigeoclip.

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5