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It uses two parallel branches to rapidly adapt to novel classes with limited samples while maintaining performance on base classes. For efficient feature representation, we integrate Semantic Ghost Channel Attention (GCA) and Fine-Grained Ghost Spatial Attention (GSA) to enhance semantic discriminability and spatial detail preservation. Moreover, we leverage Ghost convolutions to reduce computational complexity. The model is trained in three stages: base-class pre-training, meta-learner optimization, and few-shot fine-tuning. Experiments on DIOR and NWPU VHR-10 demonstrate that LFODet achieves stable and balanced performance across various few-shot learning scenarios. 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