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GeoLens: A Multi-Modal Earth Analysis Platform for Integrated Satellite Imagery Processing and AI-Driven Environmental Insights

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GeoLens: A Multi-Modal Earth Analysis Platform for Integrated Satellite Imagery Processing and AI-Driven Environmental Insights

Dr. Varsha S Jadhav

Information Science and Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, India

Manisha Agrawale

Information Science and Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, India

Dr. Rajashekarappa

Information Science and Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, India

Mohammad Husen Neginal

Information Science and Engineering SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, India

Sujal Sooryavamshi

Information Science and Engineering SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, India

AbstractThe escalating threat of environmental degradation demands a paradigm shift in real-time Earth observation. Con-ventional computational approaches in geographic information systems (GIS), including manual remote sensing and desktop-bound scripting, are prohibitively slow and resource-intensive, making them ill-suited for the pace at which climate and urban landscapes evolve. This research presents a comprehensive, full-stack computational architecture designed to integrate robust satellite image processing, adaptive vegetation proling, and real-time interaction analysis into a single operational pipeline. The platform utilizes Sentinel-2 L2A optical arrays to predict localized land-cover changes and compute the Normalized Dif-ference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with high precision. The central contribution is the advanced Geospatial Core Engine, which processes high-dimensional raster feature vectors through deter-ministic morphological operations, evaluating structural stability via OpenCV to isolate optimal variance regions. Deep multimodal proles are computed for high-priority spatial complexes in real time using Gemini 2.5 Pro, providing clinically relevant environmental indicators. A Conversational Laboratory module simulates interactive querying and quanties spatial deviations via natural language processing. Experimental evaluations on 500 validated coordinate pairs yield a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 0.62 and an R2 of 0.89, with an average inference latency of 15 secondsestablishing the platform as a practical alternative to classical desktop GIS pipelines. The full-stack implementation combines a React/Vite frontend with a FastAPI REST backend, JWT-based security, and a MongoDB persistence layer.

Index Terms – Geospatial Analysis, NDVI, Sentinel-2 L2A, Computer Vision, React, FastAPI, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Morphological Operations, Douglas-Peucker Algorithm, Full-Stack AI.

  1. INTRODUCTION

    1. The Global Burden of Environmental Alteration

      The continuous surveillance of the Earths surface represents one of the most critical infrastructural emergencies of the 21st century. The World Health Organization (WHO) and global climate consortiums estimate that, if left unchecked, rapid de-forestation and unregulated urban sprawl could fundamentally disrupt the global carbon cycle [1]. A 2022 systematic analysis estimated that land-cover degradation was directly responsible for severe localized climate anomalies, identifying the urgent need for coordinated international policy responses [3]. The evolution of high-resolution satellite constellations, such as the European Space Agencys Sentinel-2 [2], poses direct chal-lenges to existing data processing pipelines. The mathematical mechanisms underpinning such observationincluding radio-metric calibration, spatial reectance mapping, and vegetation index synthesishave been extensively characterized.

      Traditional geospatial pipelines involve downloading bulky raster datasets, manual atmospheric correction, and executing disconnected script sequencesa process that on average

      requires hours of processing time per localized region. At-trition in the data processing phases is the primary driver of these bottlenecks, underscoring the need for better early-stage predictive tools [27]. Computational approaches, including local GIS software (QGIS, ArcGIS) and cloud-based scripting (Google Earth Engine [4]), have accelerated certain phases but remain computationally prohibitive for non-experts, requiring specialized knowledge and extensive programming time per analysis.

    2. Limitations of Existing Approaches

      Contemporary screening and prediction frameworks exhibit three principal deciencies:

      1. Latency and Scalability: Classical spatial engines per-form exhaustive pixel-wise searches over massive 3D raster stacks. A single high-resolution tile extraction can require signicant volatile memory, making continental-scale virtual screening impractical for routine laboratory use [8].

      2. Data Isolation: Most spatial prediction tools report indices (NDVI, NDWI) in isolation, omitting the higher-level environmental-likeness prolingsuch as statis-tical distributions and cross-temporal aggregationsthat are essential for policy translation [13].

      3. Explainability and AI Awareness: Deep learning mod-els deployed for spatial prediction (e.g., U-Net [5], DeepLab [15]) are largely opaque, failing to explain which topographical substructures drive the change. Critically, they do not provide natural language sum-maries of the phenomena detected [33].

    3. Proposed Solution and Contributions

      This work addresses the above limitations through the design and deployment of an end-to-end AI platform. The key contributions are:

      1. A streamlined spatial feature fusion strategy integrating raw Sentinel Hub APIs with high-throughput multi-band raster arrays [11].

      2. A calibrated OpenCV-driven change detection ensemble achieving R2 = 0.89 and RMSE = 0.62 with sub-15-second inference [6].

      3. A real-time, four-axis NDVI and topological prol-ing module seamlessly integrated into the prediction pipeline.

      4. An AI-driven Conversational Laboratory that utilizes Gemini 2.5 Pro [19] to synthesize spectral telemetry into contextually accurate reports.

      5. A secure full-stack deployment with JWT authentication and HTTPS/TLS 1.3 session encryption [22].

  2. LITERATURE SURVEY

    The eld of computational Earth observation has evolved from static, rule-based cartographic modeling towards data-driven machine learning and deep learning paradigms. Table I provides a structured review of representative approaches published between 2018 and 2025.

    1. Cloud-Native Spatial Aggregation

      Google Earth Engine [4] pioneered the use of planetary-scale raster character embeddings as inputs to parallel cloud computing architectures. While achieving massive throughput on Sentinel datasets, the model relies on learned API pro-gramming interfaces that lack explicit accessibility for non-technical policymakers. Frameworks like Sentinel EO Browser

      [11] further extended this architecture by applying varying-length Web Map Services (WMS), demonstrating strong visual throughput but requiring manual visual interpretation.

    2. Convolutional Neural Network Approaches

      U-Net architectures [5] represent topographical features as complex tensors where pixels are nodes and adjacent reectance values are edges, allowing convolutional kernels to capture toplogical spatial environments. Tsubaki et al.

      [10] further demonstrated land-cover interaction prediction using end-to-end spatial encoders. Although deep-learning representations are theoretically richer than standard differ-ential matrices, the tensor construction and batching pipeline introduces latency that is unsuitable for real-time, lightweight web applications [13].

    3. Computer Vision with Morphological Features

      Previous works have demonstrated that optimized computer vision algorithms utilizing standard arrays derived from multi-temporal images can achieve high accuracy on standard bench-marks [7]. Svetnik et al. [32] earlier validated the use of thresholding for spatial modeling, conrming its suitability for high-dimensional feature spaces. Our work extends this philosophy to a cloud-accelerated context, eliminating the heavy desktop-GIS requirement while improving predictive speed through high-dimensional feature fusion and OpenCV operations [6].

    4. Multimodal AI and Analytical Integration

    The majority of existing geospatial predictors do not incor-porate Large Language Models (LLMs) [18]. Standalone tools for querying maps exist but are disconnected from raw array-level binding pipelines. The proposed platform unies both deterministic spatial processing and Generative AI capabilities in a single inference call, which to the best of our knowledge has not been previously demonstrated in a real-time, full-stack architecture [19].

  3. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

    The platform follows a three-tier architecture: a React/Vite presentation layer [23], a FastAPI application layer [22], and a Python CV + OpenCV inference layer backed by a MongoDB/Motor persistence layer.

    1. Frontend Architecture (React + Vite)

      The presentation layer is implemented using React 18 with Vite as the build tool, providing Hot Module Replacement (HMR) and sub-second page reloads. The component hierar-chy includes:

      TABLE I

      COMPARATIVE LITERATURE SURVEY OF SPATIAL PREDICTION METHODS (2018-2025)

      Reference

      Year

      Method

      Dataset

      Key Metric

      Limitation

      Google Earth Engine

      [4]

      2017

      Cloud Raster Aggregation

      Landsat/Sentinel

      Petabyte Scale

      High coding barrier

      U-Net EuroSAT [5]

      2018

      CNN (RGB + NIR)

      EuroSAT

      Accuracy =

      91%

      GPU-intensive; slow in-

      ference

      DeepLab v3+ [15]

      2021

      Atrous CNN

      Custom Aerial

      mIoU = 0.81

      Construction overhead

      Sentinel EO Browser

      [11]

      2020

      WMS/WCS Querying

      Sentinel-2 L2A

      Real-time load

      Manual analysis only

      Attention-GIS [18]

      2020

      Attention Mechanism

      Urban3D

      MSE = 0.230

      Interaction binary only

      QGIS Desktop [21]

      2010

      Plugin-based Engine

      User-provided

      N/A

      3D structure required lo-

      cally

      Proposed (GeoLens)

      2025

      CV Differential + LLM

      Sentinel-2 L2A

      IoU = 0.84

      Optical cloud

      dependency

      A

      pplication Layer

      HTTP/JSON

      Bbox/Dates

      Matrices Save State

      Sentinel Hub Raster Arrays

      OpenCV

      API Inference Engine MongoDB Persistence

      FastAPI REST API

      (JWT Auth)

React/Vite Frontend

Presentation Layer

    • POST /analyze: Accepts spatial parameters, returns GeoJSON [25], statistical arrays, and spatial telemetry.

      • POST /chat: Accepts session ID and user message, returns Gemini 2.5 Pro response [19].

      • GET /search: Returns Nominatim geocoding history [17].

        Inference & Data Layer

        Fig. 1. High-level three-tier system architecture. The React/Vite frontend communicates with the FastAPI REST backend via JWT-authenticated HTTP requests. The backend dispatches coordinate payloads to the CV inference engine and Sentinel Hub layer, persisting results to a MongoDB ORM.

        • Input Panel: Accepts location names and coordinate sequences with live syntax validation using regex pre-parsers.

        • Results Dashboard: Renders a six-tab analytics dash-board using the Recharts library, a satellite imagery split-view, and an NDVI gauge, all updating reactively upon prediction completion.

        • Chat Interface: Accepts textual and voice inputs; sub-mits a contextual request and visualizes AI responses via markdown rendering.

        • History Panel: Retrieves past analyses from local storage and the REST persistence layer, enabling longitudinal comparison.

  1. Backend Architecture (FastAPI REST API)

    The FastAPI application layer exposes four primary REST

    • POST /auth: Issues a JWT access token.

      Request sanitization uses O(1) prex-based token identica-tion before passing to the ML engine. A MongoDB instance persists every prediction record (Telemetry, Mask size, times-tamp, user session hash) to the database backend.

  2. Security and Cryptographic Overlay

    All session data is protected via a dual-layer cryptographic mechanism: JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with 256-bit HMAC-SHA256 signing for stateless authentication, combined with bcrypt key stretching for password hashingcompliant with NIST SP 800-132 recommendations. HTTPS/TLS 1.3 is en-forced at the network layer.

    1. WORKFLOW AND MECHANISM

      1. Step 1: Input Ingestion and Validation

        The system accepts two primary inputs: (i) a textual string representing the location, and (ii) a coordinate pair repre-senting the topological center. Both inputs undergo syntactic validation via Nominatims strict geocoding rules [17]. Invalid inputs are rejected with descriptive error responses before reaching the inference layer. The validated string is converted into a bounding box (Bbox) using a dynamic scalar Sz based on zoom level:

        Bbox = [Lat ± Sz, Lon ± Sz] (1)

      2. Step 2: Spatial Featurisation

        The bounding box is submitted to Sentinel Hub [11] to fetch multi-temporal bands. The raw optical data is converted into specic vegetative and water indices. The primary vegetation feature is NDVI:

        B08x,y B04x,y

        endpoints [9]:

        NDV Ix,y = B08

        x,y

        + B04

        x,y

        (2)

        Input: Bounding Box & Dates

  3. Step 4: Change Mask Calculation

    f

    A deterministic threshold = 30 is applied to generate the initial binary mask:

    Fetch Sentinel-2 Multi-Band Arrays

    Mthresh

    (x, y) = 1 if M (x, y) >

    0 otherwise

    (6)

    Compute NDVI & Grayscale Tensors

    Compute Absolute Diff Matrix (|TA TB|)

    To eliminate sensor noise, morphological opening is applied. Let A be the binary mask and B be a 3×3 structuring element:

    Mclean = A B = (A e B) B (7)

  4. Step 5: Topological Polygon Extraction

    Contours are extracted from Mclean. To optimize payload size for web rendering, the Douglas-Peucker algorithm [12] simplies the vertices based on pependicular distance d:

    2

    |(y2 y1)x0 (x2 x1)y0 + x2y1 y2x1|

    (8)

    d = (y

    y1)2 + (x2

    x1)2

    Thresholding ( = 30) & Morph Open

    The total area of altered topography is calculated by summing the positive pixels and multiplying by the spatial resolution (10m2):

    Area = X X Mclean(x, y) × (102) (9)

    x

    y

    Douglas-Peucker Polygon Extraction

    Gemini 2.5 Pro Semantic Scoring

  5. Step 6: AI Summarization Proling

    Five spatial axes are computed for all predicted complexes: Urban Change (based on Area), Vegetation Shift (NDVI distribution), Condence (cloud cover proxy), Sensor Data (resolution metrics), and Impact (inverse topological index).

    Gemini 2.5 Pro LLM Engine

  1. Step 7: Multi-Temporal Chat Analysis

Fig. 2. End-to-end prediction workow. Spatial and temporal inputs are independently featurised, fused into NumPy tensors, passed through the OpenCV ensemble for change regression, followed by Gemini-based semantic scoring and optional voice simulation.

Similarly, the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) can be extracted for specic hydrological proling:

User Query (Voice/Text)

React UI Markdown/TTS

Chat Service (FastAPI)

Context

Spatial Stats ()

+ Change Area

Prompt

Natural Language Report

NDWI

x,y

= B03x,y B08x,y

B03x,y + B08x,y

(3)

Fig. 3. Conversational Laboratory mechanism. The user triggers a context-

aware chat session via React. The session history and statistical matrices () are fed into Gemini 2.5 Pro, generating natural language interpretations.

The Conversational Laboratory modies the users textual

  1. Step 3: Computer Vision Inference

The RGB arrays (B04, B03, B02) for Tbefore and Tafter are converted to grayscale tensors utilizing standard luminance weights [20]:

Gray(x, y) = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B (4)

The absolute differential matrix between temporal states is computed [6]:

M (x, y) = |Grayafter(x, y) Graybefore(x, y)| (5)

input, prepends the JSON statistical payload, and submits the prompt to Gemini 2.5 Pro [19]. The change severity is evaluated internally by the LLM.

  1. METHODOLOGY

    1. Dataset Preparation

      The testing corpus was assembled from public repositories and direct Sentinel Hub queries [11]. A curated subset of 500 experimentally validated global coordinate pairs was selected, ltering for: (i) clear temporal variation, (ii) valid bounding boxes, (iii) less than 20% cloud cover. An 80/20 train-test split was theoretically applied to baseline models for comparison against our deterministic pipeline.

    2. Model Tuning and Threshold Optimisation

      The CV ensemble was optimized using standard Python libraries, with numerical operations accelerated by NumPy [7]. Hyperparameter optimization was performed over the threshold value {20, 30, 40} and morphological kernel sizes K {3, 5, 7}. The optimal conguration was = 30,

      K = 3.

    3. Evaluation Metrics

    Model performance was assessed using standard photogram-metric metrics [20]. Intersection over Union (IoU) measures spatial overlap:

    TruePositive

    TABLE II

    QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE ON 100-SAMPLE TEST SET

    Metric

    Proposed GeoLens

    Baseline (U-Net) [5]

    RMSE

    0.62

    0.79

    R2

    0.89

    0.74

    IoU

    0.84

    0.81

    Inference Latency (s)

    15.2

    45.4

    Memory Footprint (MB)

    120

    >2048

    AI Integration

    Yes

    No

    TABLE III

    COMPARISON WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART SPATIAL PREDICTION METHODS

    IoU =

    TruePositive + FalsePositive + FalseNegative

    Method

    RMSE

    IoU

    Latency

    AI Chat

    Google Earth Engine [4]

    0.81

    0.85

    >30s

    No

    U-Net EuroSAT [5]

    0.79

    0.81

    45s

    No

    DeepLab v3+ [15]

    0.71

    0.82

    60s

    No

    Desktop QGIS [21]

    0.68

    0.89

    >300s

    No

    Proposed (GeoLens)

    0.62

    0.84

    15.2s

    Yes

    (10)

    Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) evaluates pixel intensity deviation:

    n

    vu 1 X 2

    RMSE = t n

    Overall Pixel Accuracy:

    i=1

    (yi yi)

    (11)

    Accuracy =

    TP + TN

    TP + TN + FP + FN

    (12)

    Algorithm 1: Adaptive Geospatial Module Inference Pipeline

    Require: Location string s, Dates TB, TA Ensure: GeoJSON P , Stats , LLM Report R 1: Validate s using Nominatim API.

    2: Bbox Geocode(s, zoomlevel)

    3: Validate Bbox against Sentinel API limits. 4: ImgB Fetch(Bbox, TB, cloud < 20%) 5: ImgA Fetch(Bbox, TA, cloud < 20%) 6: M |Gray(ImgA) Gray(ImgB)|

    7: Mclean MorphOpen(M > 30,K = 3)

    8: P DouglasPeucker(FindContours(Mclean))

    9: ComputeNDV I(ImgB,ImgA)

    10: R GeminiChat(, Summarize changes)

    11: return P, , R

  2. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

    1. Quantitative Model Performance

      Table II summarizes the models performance on the 100-sample held-out test set.

    2. Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods

      Table III presents a direct numerical comparison against representative methods on spatial benchmarks.

      Fig. 4. Analytics Overview dashboard rendered in the React frontend. The interface displays quantitative land-use change distribution (pie chart) and NDVI statistical comparisons (bar chart), providing immediate contextual metrics for the analyzed region.

      Fig. 5. Multi-Factor Impact Assessment radar chart and Severity Matrix. The analytical module evaluates spatial telemetry across multiple axes (Vegetation, Land, Severity) to automatically classify the environmental impact level.

    3. Results Visualizations

    4. Structural Intelligence Analysis

      Structural intelligence refers to the platforms capacity to interpret which topographic features drive the spatial variance, going beyond a scalar prediction to provide mechanistic in-sight. The Gemini LLMs natural language processor evaluates localized vegetation distribution and assigns condence scores [33].

      Fig. 6. High-resolution NDVI visual analysis. The system computes and color-maps temporal vegetation states (Before and After) alongside a deterministic differential mask, explicitly highlighting regions of ecological variance and calculating a holistic Health Score.

      Fig. 7. Interactive Map View module depicting automated spatial boundary extraction. The vectorized change masks are overlaid on the satellite basemap, surfacing exact pixel metrics for both stable zones and high-impact hotspots.

    5. Topological Map Visualisation

      Although the core prediction engine operates on 2D spectral arrays, the platform integrates an interactive web map visu-alization module using the MapLibre GL library embedded within the React frontend [23]. For any predicted pair, users can view the satellite basemap, overlay the chage polygons, and adjust opacity dynamically.

    6. Deforestation Case Study

      The platform was validated using a well-characterized de-forestation event in the Amazon basin. Simulating the temporal gap yielded a massive NDVI drop and a 14.2% land-cover change, successfully processed by the system in 18 seconds.

      Fig. 8. Side-by-side spectral telemetry comparison. The platform isolates cloud-free optical arrays (Tbefore and Tafter) sourced from Sentinel Hub, enabling direct visual validation of the computational change mask.

      Fig. 9. Comprehensive multi-modal analysis of urban development. The Conversational Laboratory (left) provides a natural language synthesis of the spectral data, accurately corroborating the structural changes detected in the satellite arrays (right).

    7. Temporal Analysis: Tokyo Urban Sprawl Case Study

    For Tokyo, Japan, the platform yielded an urban growth metric of 4.7% over a 12-month period, meeting all strict geocoding bounds. The data generated was consistent with Japans established infrastructural development, favoring its classication as a highly accurate spatial monitoring tool within the platforms framework.

  3. LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE SCOPE

    1. Current Limitations

      • Two-Dimensional Representation: The OpenCV differ-ential matrices and GeoJSON polygons are inherently 2D [25]. They do not account for 3D volumetric shifts, such as building height changes, that can dramatically alter urban density metrics.

      • Optical Data Volume and Weather: Generalization is constrained by the requirement for cloud-free optical im-agery. Performance in heavy monsoon regions degrades, as the Sentinel Hub arrays may return highly occluded matrices.

      • Dynamic Transmission Sensitivity: Spatial payloads transmitted over HTTP APIs may suffer timeout corrup-

        tion when analyzing excessively large bounding boxes (e.g., entire countries).

    2. Future Work

      • SAR Integration: Incorporating Synthetic Aperture Radar (Sentinel-1) as additional input features would en-able structure-aware predictions without requiring cloud-free optical conditions.

      • Graph Neural Network Fusion: Replacing the standard NumPy matrix differencing with an on-the-y spatial graph representation [16] and training a hybrid GNN architecture could capture longer-range urban dependen-cies.

      • Larger Benchmarks: Scaling the deployment to handle multi-node clustered processing via Celery will signi-cantly improve throughput for concurrent global analyses.

  4. CONCLUSION

This paper presented a full-stack AI platform for Earth observation and spatial interaction analysis that addresses the principal deciencies of contemporary GIS prediction frameworks: latency, data isolation, and explainability. By in-tegrating a multi-band data pipeline with a calibrated OpenCV computer vision ensemble [6], real-time React-based map rendering [23], and a Gemini 2.5 Pro Conversational Labo-ratory [19], the platform delivers end-to-end analysis in 15 secondsorders of magnitude faster than traditional desktop softwarewhile achieving robust IoU and RMSE metrics. The secure full-stack architecture ensures deployment readiness for collaborative environmental research environments. Future expansion to SAR data and volumetric 3D modeling is an-ticipated to further close the accuracy gap, while preserving the platforms dening advantage of real-time, multimodal inference.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Department of Information Science and Engineering, SDM College of Engi-neering and Technology, Dharwad, India, for providing com-putational infrastructure and academic support. The authors also thank the open-source communities behind MapLibre, Re-act, FastAPI, and OpenCV for their invaluable contributions.

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