When a Large LLM Doesn’t Work: Object Detection on 10-Meter Pixels [ukr]

When you give an LLM satellite imagery, object detection can look impressive on high-quality images — and completely fall apart when you switch to freely available satellite data, where the entire object may be just 20 pixels across. I’ll share our journey of detecting illegal landfills in Sentinel-2 imagery and explain why the path to a working solution wasn’t simply “get more data and throw a bigger model at it.” We started by moving away from LLMs and toward specialized object detectors, and eventually ended up with an architecture where each individual feature of an object is detected by a separate agent, while the final probability is calculated using explicit mathematical rules.