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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-3-2026-11-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>deSEO: Physics-Aware Dataset Creation for High-Resolution Satellite Image Shadow Removal</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Beltrame</surname>
<given-names>Lorenzo</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2933-501X</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Salzinger</surname>
<given-names>Jules</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4667-5861</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Svoboda</surname>
<given-names>Filip</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fanta-Jende</surname>
<given-names>Phillipp</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-5425</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lampert</surname>
<given-names>Jasmin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0414-4525</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Timofte</surname>
<given-names>Radu</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Körner</surname>
<given-names>Marco</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-4175</ext-link>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Austrian Institute of Technology, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>University of Cambridge, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Ave., CB3 0FD Cambridge, UK</addr-line>
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<addr-line>University of Würzburg, John Skilton Str. 4a, Hubland Nord, 97074 Würzburg, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Technical University of Munich (TUM), TUM School of Engineering and Design, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), 85748 Garching, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>6</label>
<addr-line>ELLIS Unit Jena, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XI-3-2026</volume>
<fpage>11</fpage>
<lpage>18</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Lorenzo Beltrame et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired shadow/shadow-free satellite imagery are essentially missing, and most Earth-observation datasets are designed for shadow detection or 3D modelling rather than removal. Existing deep shadow-removal datasets either target ground-level or aerial scenes or rely on unpaired and weakly supervised formulations rather than explicit satellite pairs. We address this gap with &lt;em&gt;deSEO&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;em&gt;geometry-aware&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;physics-informed&lt;/em&gt; methodology that, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to derive paired supervision for satellite shadow removal from the S-EO shadow detection dataset (Masquil et al., 2025) through a fully replicable pipeline. For each tile, deSEO selects a minimally shadowed acquisition as a weak reference and pairs it with shadowed counterparts using temporal and geometric filtering, Jacobian-based orientation normalisation, and LoFTR&amp;ndash;RANSAC registration. A per-pixel validity mask restricts learning to reliably aligned regions, enabling supervision despite residual off-nadir parallax. In addition to this paired dataset, we develop a DSM-aware deshadowing model that combines residual translation, perceptual objectives, and mask-constrained adversarial learning. In contrast, a direct adaptation of a UAV-based SRNet/pix2pix architecture fails to converge under satellite viewpoint variability. Our model consistently reduces the visual impact of cast shadows across diverse illumination and viewing conditions, achieving improved structural and perceptual fidelity on held-out scenes. deSEO therefore provides the first reproducible, geometry-aware paired dataset and baseline for shadow removal in satellite Earth observation.</p>
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