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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found widespread applications in interpreting remote sensing (RS) imagery. However, it has been demonstrated in previous works that DNNs are vulnerable to different types of noises, particularly adversarial noises. Surprisingly, there has been a lack of comprehensive studies on the robustness of RS tasks, prompting us to undertake a thorough survey and benchmark on the robustness of image classification and object detection in RS. To our best knowledge, this study represents the first comprehensive examination of both natural robustness and adversarial robustness in RS tasks. Specifically, we have curated and made publicly available datasets that contain natural and adversarial noises. These datasets serve as valuable resources for evaluating the robustness of DNNs-based models. To provide a comprehensive assessment of model robustness, we conducted meticulous experiments with numerous different classifiers and detectors, encompassing a wide range of mainstream methods. Through rigorous evaluation, we have uncovered insightful and intriguing findings, which shed light on the relationship between adversarial noise crafting and model training, yielding a deeper understanding of the susceptibility and limitations of various models, and providing guidance for the development of more resilient and robust models

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been extensively utilized in aerial detection. However, DNNs' sensitivity and vulnerability to maliciously elaborated adversarial examples have progressively garnered attention. Recently, physical attacks have gradually become a hot issue due to they are more practical in the real world, which poses great threats to some security-critical applications. In this paper, we take the first attempt to perform physical attacks in contextual form against aerial detection in the physical world. We propose an innovative contextual attack method against aerial detection in real scenarios, which achieves powerful attack performance and transfers well between various aerial object detectors without smearing or blocking the interested objects to hide. Based on the findings that the targets' contextual information plays an important role in aerial detection by observing the detectors' attention maps, we propose to make full use of the contextual area of the interested targets to elaborate contextual perturbations for the uncovered attacks in real scenarios. Extensive proportionally scaled experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed contextual attack method, which demonstrates the proposed method's superiority in both attack efficacy and physical practicality.