Rethinking Amortized Neural Representations for High-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data
arXiv:2606. 00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Implicit neural representations (INRs) model a signal as a continuous coordinate-to-value function.
arXiv:2605. 22556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital elevation models (DEMs) underpin terrain analysis in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), but commonly as raster representation, they rely on interpolation for off-grid sampling and finite-difference operators for derivative-based analysis.
arXiv:2606. 00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Implicit neural representations (INRs) model a signal as a continuous coordinate-to-value function.
arXiv:2607. 04190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global reanalysis products such as ERA5-Land provide spatially complete weather fields but at resolutions too coarse for local applications, particularly in mountainous regions where temperature can vary by several degrees over short distances.
arXiv:2608. 06612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The plethora of readily available geospatial data offers exciting opportunities to learn high quality representations of the planet, but the sheer size of the Earth Observations (EO), differing modalities, and different sensor types pose significant challenges in doing so.
arXiv:2606. 06385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a cross-dataset evaluation of learned native-cell surrogate models for solver-consistent water-surface elevation (WSE) prediction in HEC-RAS 2D.
arXiv:2504. 08909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital elevation models derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data over glacial and snow-covered regions often exhibit systematic elevation errors, commonly termed "penetration bias.
arXiv:2608. 15790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crevasse mapping from uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery matters for glaciological research and for field safety in glaciated terrain.
Large 3D foundation models such as MASt3R achieve state-of-the-art stereo reconstruction but are computationally demanding for deployment under strict hardware constraints -- a critical limitation in domains such as planetary exploration, where onboard computing is severely restricted. We study how far such models can be compressed through knowledge distillation, using lunar stereo reconstruction as a challenging and practically relevant case study.
arXiv:2607. 08711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D terrain maps are essential for emergency response when assessing wildfire hazards.
arXiv:2606. 06524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and scalable flood mapping remains challenging due to limited ground observations, heterogeneous terrain conditions, and the difficulty of enforcing hydrodynamic consistency within data-driven models.
arXiv:2506. 11139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have recently shown impressive results, but their fundamental capacity, implicit biases, and scaling behavior remain poorly understood.
Accurate 3D terrain maps are essential for emergency response when assessing wildfire hazards. However, wildfire-prone regions often span vast areas where conventional reconstruction methods underperform.
arXiv:2606. 31248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kilometer-scale convection shapes precipitation extremes, tropical organization, and cloud feedbacks, but most global atmospheric models approximate these processes at 25-100 km resolution.