Rethinking Validation for Spatial Machine Learning: Takeaways from the Talk

Title slide of the talk Keynote slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026/ Workshop materials: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026workshop/ Machine learning is now deeply embedded 1 in Earth observation workflows, from mapping current environmental conditions to forecasting future change. However, the quality of a spatial prediction map cannot be judged only by how well a model performs on a…