The study evaluates whether Earth‑observation foundation models encode geographic location information by attempting to predict coordinates from their embeddings. Using 284 verified European solar farms, the authors tested Tessera v1, Tessera v1.1, and AlphaEarth, finding that all three models contain recoverable geographic data. AlphaEarth showed the strongest correlation between embedding distance and geographic distance, while both Tessera variants outperformed Sentinel‑2 controls, suggesting that geographic information should be considered when auditing such models.
By Peiwen Zhang, Kristie Hu, Jovana Knezevic, Shunde Yin, Kyle Gao
arXiv:2608.27521v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many dynamical processes unfold on the sphere but the default scientific machine learning architectures are Euclidean. Applying these architectures on...
By Till Muser, Giovanni Abati, Ivan Dokmani\'c
arXiv:2602. 13416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The proliferation of data-driven models in weather and climate sciences has marked a significant paradigm shift, with advanced models demonstrating exceptional skill in medium-range forecasting.
By Haiwen Guan, Dibyajyoti Chakraborty, Moein Darman, Troy Arcomano, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Romit Maulik
arXiv:2608. 12271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global weather reanalyses and forecasts resolve the evolving atmospheric state on coarse grids, but site-specific applications require predictions at arbitrary locations where near-surface conditions also depend on unresolved terrain and land-surface properties.
By Pedro Sousa (Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge), Will Tebbutt (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge), Sadiq Jaffer (Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge), Robin Young (Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge), Anil Madhavapeddy (Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge), Richard E. Turner (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)
arXiv:2607. 29527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A defining problem of the Anthropocene is to model the physical Earth and human societies as one coupled system, yet no learned representation spans their observational breadth.
By Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo Tavoni
arXiv:2607. 17037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution atmospheric data are required to resolve mesoscale and localized meteorological structures, however such datasets remain limited in many regions of the world.
By Evangelia Rafaela Frastali, Achyut Paudel, Maryam Golbazi, Frank Liu