Siddiqui H, Small C and Modi V (2026) From Foundation Models to Interpretability: A Comparative Study of Embeddings and Featurization for Smallholder Irrigation Detection in Sub-Saharan Africa. Front. Remote Sens.
# Comparative Study of Embeddings and Feature Engineering for Smallholder Irrigation Detection
## Repository Structure
The repository contains scripts and files comparative study of embeddings and feature engineering for small holder irrigation detection across sub-Saharan Africa
```
Irrigation-Detection/
├── data-collection-polygons/ # Folder for input files
│ └── ......
├── GEE_scripts/
│ └── interactiveEVIextraction.js # View Sentinel 2 EVI time series for polygons
│ └── SDM_spatialblock_cross_validation.js # Script used for spatial block cross validation training
│ └── classifierAEFembeddings.js # Script used for quick random Forest classifier (prompt included)
│ └── phenologyMaps.js # Creating Phenology Maps
│ └── ......
```