arXiv Machine Learning

GeoPrior-Mamba: Structured Process Priors with Mamba for Fine-Resolution XCO2 Reconstruction

GeoPrior-Mamba is a new multi-directional Mamba framework that reconstructs fine‑resolution XCO2 fields from sparse satellite data by incorporating structured process priors derived from a language model. These priors encode biospheric uptake, ecosystem respiration, and anthropogenic emissions into deterministic tables, which are spatially instantiated with geographic, ecological, emission, and seasonal information and injected into the model via a lightweight knowledge adapter. On OCO‑2 data from 2018‑2020, the method achieves an RMSE of 0.81 ppm and an R² of 0.93, outperforming CAMS background interpolation and Trans‑XCO2, and shows faster convergence and consistency with ground‑based TCCON measurements.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Earth Observation Foundation Models for Terrestrial Ecohydrology: From Representation Learning to Process Inference

arXiv:2608. 15282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth observation foundation models (EOFMs) are emerging as reusable representation frameworks for data-driven retrieval, prediction and process modelling within ecohydrology, which integrate EO, meteorological forcing and process models to characterise coupled water, energy and carbon dynamics in vegetation and soil across scales.

By Yi Yu, Jian Peng, Yucheng Lin, Trevor F. Keenan, Thomas F. A. Bishop
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Generative Atmospheric Super-Resolution from Heterogeneous In Situ Observations through Composable Interfaces

The paper presents a method for improving atmospheric state reconstructions by conditioning a pretrained diffusion model on heterogeneous in‑situ observations. It introduces composable interfaces that transform sparse radiosonde, clustered aircraft, and dense surface‑station data into likelihood factors, allowing these diverse sources to guide posterior sampling consistently. Using 2019 data to build the interfaces and evaluating them in 2020, the combined R+A+S approach reduces RMSE by 9.24% and improves CRPS compared to using radiosondes alone, demonstrating a modular way to incorporate varied observations without retraining the model.

By Yang Xu, Dibyajyoti Chakraborty, Haiwen Guan, Sen Wang, Romit Maulik
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Efficient Continuous DEM Reconstruction under Limited Target-Resolution Supervision

The paper introduces SCOPE, a method for reconstructing high‑resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) from coarser‑resolution training pairs. SCOPE learns a continuous terrain representation by predicting a latent coefficient field on a low‑resolution grid and reusing local Fourier residual functions, thereby decoupling coefficient prediction from output‑grid construction. Experiments on diverse land–ocean datasets show that SCOPE outperforms competing methods across six metrics, reduces reconstruction error by about 12 % at three‑times‑unseen scale, and achieves these gains with only a modest increase in computational cost.

By Zekai Shi, Meng Zhang, Haokun Zhang, Bo Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Multi-Modal, Multi-Temporal Geospatial Foundation Models Improve Global Above-Ground Biomass Estimation

The study evaluates 13 Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs) for estimating above‑ground biomass (AGB) from satellite imagery, comparing them to a fully supervised state‑of‑the‑art baseline trained on the AGBD dataset. Most GFMs perform worse than the baseline, but TESSERA and AlphaEarth Foundations (AEF) features combined with specific prediction heads achieve superior results, with the best model attaining an RMSE of 50.79 Mg/ha. This AEF‑based model also generalizes better to unseen regions, reduces RMSE by up to 25% in excluded areas, and matches the ESA CCI biomass product when trained on limited regional labels.

By Ghjulia Sialelli, Linus Scheibenreif, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

BG4Sea: Biogeochemical Seasonal Forecastability via Progressive Information Scaling

arXiv:2607. 16731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Marine biogeochemical forecasting is increasingly important for managing marine ecosystems and the carbon cycle, yet global, seasonal forecast products lag far behind physical oceanography, held back by the complexity of the processes involved and by data scarcity.

By Gabriela Martinez Balbontin, Anastase Charantonis, Dominique Bereziat, Stefano Ciavatta