IGARSS 2026

On August 9, during IGARSS 2026, Embed2Scale experts will deliver an introduction and hands‑on session on NeuCo‑Bench (https://github.com/embed2scale/NeuCo-Bench/tree/main), a benchmark framework that emerged from the 2025 CVPR EARTHVISION workshop (https://www.grss-ieee.org/events/earthvision-2025/?tab=challenge). NeuCo‑Bench is designed as an extendable, community‑driven framework for evaluating neural compression and representation learning methods in the context of Earth Observation (EO), without requiring heavy compute resources. The growing volume and complexity of EO data calls for standardized, scalable, and reproducible tools that can assess the quality and utility of learned representations across diverse downstream tasks. NeuCo‑Bench and its associated Earth2Vec community (https://earth2vec.github.io), which grew out of the Horizon Europe project Embed2Scale, address this need by offering a modular evaluation pipeline built around fixed‑size, task‑agnostic embeddings. This enables researchers and practitioners to consistently compare neural compression methods.