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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Quo Vadis, Quantum Machine Learning?: Quantum kernel methods meet Earth observation

Artur Miroszewski, Jakub Nalepa, Agata M. Wijata, Jakub Mielczarek A B, Bertrand Le Saux, Alessandro Sebastianelli

Published Jan 21, 2026• 2 citations
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10.1109/mgrs.2025.3596291

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