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However, current semantic segmentation models encounter two primary challenges: (1) the inherent trade-off between capturing long-range global context and preserving precise local structural details\u2014where excessive reliance on downsampled deep semantics often results in blurred boundaries and the loss of small objects and (2) the difficulty in modeling complex scenes with extreme scale variations, where objects of the same category exhibit drastically different morphological features. To address these issues, this paper introduces MAFMamba, a multi-scale adaptive fusion visual Mamba network tailored for high-resolution remote sensing images. To mitigate scale variation, we design a lightweight hybrid encoder incorporating an Adaptive Multi-scale Mamba Block (AMMB) in each stage. Driven by a Multi-scale Adaptive Fusion (MSAF) mechanism, the AMMB dynamically generates pixel-level weights to recalibrate cross-level features, establishing a robust multi-scale representation. Simultaneously, to strictly balance local details and global semantics, we introduce a Global\u2013Local Feature Enhancement Mamba (GLMamba) in the decoder. This module synergistically integrates local fine-grained features extracted by convolutions with global long-range dependencies modeled by the Visual State Space (VSS) layer. Furthermore, we propose a Multi-Scale Cross-Attention Fusion (MSCAF) module to bridge the semantic gap between the encoder\u2019s shallow details and the decoder\u2019s high-level semantics via an efficient cross-attention mechanism. Extensive experiments on the ISPRS Potsdam and Vaihingen datasets demonstrate that MAFMamba surpasses state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Transformer, and Mamba-based methods in terms of mIoU and mF1 scores. Notably, it achieves superior accuracy while maintaining linear computational complexity and low memory usage, underscoring its efficiency in complex remote sensing scenarios.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s26020531","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]],"date-time":"2026-01-13T15:52:57Z","timestamp":1768319577000},"page":"531","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["MAFMamba: A Multi-Scale Adaptive Fusion Network for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-8587-6739","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Boxu","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5577-4212","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaobing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-2226-4063","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yingjie","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4212516","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2024.3496660","article-title":"Attention-ConvNet Network for Ocean-Front Prediction via Remote Sensing SST Images","volume":"62","author":"Yang","year":"2024","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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