{
  "id": 16528,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03804v1",
  "title": "How Usable Are Geospatial Foundation Models? A Systematic Evaluation of 89 Models",
  "summary": "Geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs) offer transformative potential for environmental monitoring, yet adoption among ecologists is uneven. Most evaluations are model-centric, focusing on architecture and benchmark accuracy, which overlooks whether the systems are usable by their intended audiences. To address this gap, we first conducted a pilot expert elicitation survey with ecology and conservation scientists that helped us identify misalignments between current GeoFM development priorities a",
  "authors": "Robin Young, Artyom Gabtraupov, Kenzy Soror, Srinivasan Keshav",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T15:16:22.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-hc",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.HC",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16528",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03804v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}