Earth observation · AI

Intelligence for a changing planet.

I’m Mohanad, a machine-learning scientist turning satellite and climate data into useful, scalable systems—from foundation models to production geospatial platforms.

Mohanad Albughdadi outdoors
Research → production Bridging rigorous ML and operational systems
Earth-scale data Satellite, aerial and climate observations
Open knowledge Training, workshops and scientific publishing
Selected work

Applied AI, seen from above.

A selection of research, engineering and teaching across foundation models, forecasting, computer vision, AI assistants and geospatial infrastructure.

03 EarthNet2021 latent world-model training curves
World models · Satellite time series

Cloud-aware latent forecasting for EarthNet

An Earth Observation adaptation of LeWorldModel trained on 717,120 EarthNet2021 steps. Its learned dynamics beat persistence for latent forecasting across validation, IID, OOD and extreme splits.

04 Aerial image with oriented detections and SAM instance masks
YOLOv8 OBB · Segment Anything

Detection-to-segmentation aerial pipeline

A local two-stage workflow that detects oriented objects, prompts SAM with each result, and clips the final instance masks back to the detected geometry.

07 STAC service configuration and deployment
STAC · Infrastructure

Deployable STAC catalog services

A reproducible Docker Compose stack for making geospatial collections searchable and interoperable.

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Satellite imagery · 5 m

Sentinel-2 → VENµS super-resolution

Learning-based enhancement of Sentinel-2 imagery toward VENµS spatial detail.

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Climate · Temperature

ERA5 temperature super-resolution

Downscaling global ERA5 temperature fields toward the regional detail of CERRA data.

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Climate · Wind

ERA5 wind-speed super-resolution

Recovering finer regional structure from coarse wind-speed fields with deep learning.

11 Sentinel-2 processing API dashboard
Cloud native · MLOps

Sentinel-2 processing API

Scalable imagery processing with Docker, Kubernetes, Celery, Redis and Flower.

12 Oriented object detection in aerial imagery
Detection · VHR imagery

Oriented object detection from above

YOLOv8 oriented bounding boxes for objects in very-high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery.

13 Interactive promptable segmentation dashboard
SAM · Interactive AI

Promptable Sentinel-2 segmentation

An interactive dashboard that brings Segment Anything workflows to satellite imagery.

14 Fine-tuning SAM for remote sensing tasks
Fine-tuning · Segmentation

Adapting SAM to remote sensing

Efficient fine-tuning strategies for specialised downstream segmentation tasks.

15 Animated agricultural field boundary delineation
Agriculture · Segmentation

Field boundary delineation

Deep-learning extraction of agricultural parcel boundaries from Sentinel-2 imagery.

16 Animated Sentinel-2 imagery super-resolved to 2.5 metres
Satellite imagery · 2.5 m

Sharper Sentinel-2 imagery

Super-resolving multispectral observations to 2.5 m for more detailed analysis.

17 Animated forest fire-risk zoning result
Risk mapping · Aerial imagery

Fire-risk zoning with BDORTHO

Deep-learning maps of vulnerable zones to support planning and disaster management.

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Agriculture · Biophysics

Large-scale LAI estimation

Fast estimation of Leaf Area Index over large areas from Sentinel-2 observations.

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Detection · Aerial imagery

Swimming-pool detection at scale

Automated detection across French communes to support circular-economy initiatives.

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Teaching · March 2026

ELLIS Winter School: AI for Earth System

Zero2Hero Tutor and Challenge Tutor for a five-day hands-on programme on AI for Earth systems, hazards and climate extremes.

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Workshop · 2025

EO4EU at Big Data from Space

Practical workshop material for exploring Earth Observation data and cloud-native geospatial workflows.

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Summer school · 2025

MediTwin: AI and digital twins

Hands-on material connecting artificial intelligence and digital twins, alongside ECMWF training on processing Earth Observation data in cloud environments.

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Tutorial · 2024

IGARSS EO4EU tutorial

An introductory tutorial on accessing and applying EO4EU resources for Earth Observation workflows.

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Course · 2021 · Earth Observation

Data science for Copernicus

Hands-on training covering machine learning with cultivated-parcel data and machine and deep learning for Sentinel-2 imagery.

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Article · MLOps

Kubeflow pipelines for Earth Observation

A practical guide to building reproducible machine-learning pipelines for geospatial applications.

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Tutorial · Contributor · 2023

AI4Copernicus: bridging AI and EO

Contributor to a half-day tutorial and hands-on session on AI4Copernicus tools for connecting artificial intelligence with Earth Observation applications.

Capabilities

From pixels to decisions.

I work across the full path from research question to maintainable service, with a focus on systems that can be understood, reproduced and used.

01 / Research

Geospatial machine learning

Computer vision and representation learning for multispectral, radar, aerial and climate data.

PyTorchSelf-supervisionSegmentationDetection
02 / Engineering

Cloud-native EO systems

APIs, data catalogs and scalable processing workflows that move models beyond the notebook.

GCPKubernetesDockerSTACMLOps
03 / Knowledge

Scientific communication

Technical leadership, open training and workshops that make advanced methods practical for teams.

WorkshopsMentoringPublishingTech transfer
Let’s connect

Working on a planet-sized problem?

I’m always interested in thoughtful conversations about geospatial AI, applied research and systems that turn complex data into real-world value.

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