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  "abstract": "Fault scarps are geomorphological markers of past surface ruptures caused by earthquakes and provide valuable information for seismic hazard assessment. Mapping these features over large areas is therefore essential but remains a time-consuming task requiring expert interpretation. Recent advances in deep learning and remote sensing offer promising opportunities for automated fault scarp detection. In this study, we used the TerraMind foundation model using Sentinel-2 RGB and infrared imagery together with a TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to map fault scarps in southern Peru. However, fault scarps are thin and barely visible linear structures, and they occupy only a small fraction of an image. Therefore, they are often confused with similar landforms such as cliffs or riverbanks. This results in severe class imbalance and numerous hard negative samples that the standard Dice loss does not handle efficiently. To address these challenges, we propose a new loss function specifically designed for fault scarp segmentation: the Slope-Weighted Focal Tversky Loss (SWFTL). This combines a Focal Tversky loss (helping the model focus on false negatives) with a slope-weighted cross-entropy term (using DEM slope as a proxy for hard negatives, thereby reducing false-positive detections). Our results show that SWFTL outperforms the standard Dice loss by approximately 44% in terms of relaxed F1-score, demonstrating its effectiveness for the specific challenges of fault scarp segmentation.",
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  "title": "Slope-Weighted Focal Tversky Loss for Fault Scarp Segmentation from Satellite Imagery",
  "title_text": "Slope-Weighted Focal Tversky Loss for Fault Scarp Segmentation from Satellite Imagery",
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