Foundation models for weather and climate data understanding: A comprehensive survey

S Chen, G Long, J Jiang, D Liu, C Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03014, 2023 - arxiv.org
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rapidly evolve, the realm of Earth and atmospheric
sciences is increasingly adopting data-driven models, powered by progressive …

On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geoai (vision paper)

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

Satclip: Global, general-purpose location embeddings with satellite imagery

K Klemmer, E Rolf, C Robinson, L Mackey… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Geographic location is essential for modeling tasks in fields ranging from ecology to
epidemiology to the Earth system sciences. However, extracting relevant and meaningful …

Positional encoder graph neural networks for geographic data

K Klemmer, NS Safir, DB Neill - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a powerful and scalable solution for modeling
continuous spatial data. However, they often rely on Euclidean distances to construct the …

Mission Critical--Satellite Data is a Distinct Modality in Machine Learning

E Rolf, K Klemmer, C Robinson, H Kerner - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Satellite data has the potential to inspire a seismic shift for machine learning--one in which
we rethink existing practices designed for traditional data modalities. As machine learning …

Reflections from the Workshop on AI-Assisted Decision Making for Conservation

L Xu, E Rolf, S Beery, JR Bennett, T Berger-Wolf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this white paper, we synthesize key points made during presentations and discussions
from the AI-Assisted Decision Making for Conservation workshop, hosted by the Center for …

[HTML][HTML] Semantic-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-Scale Urban Functional-Feature Identification Based on Human Mobility

Y Chen, P Zhao, Y Lin, Y Sun, R Chen, L Yu… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Precise identification of spatial unit functional features in the city is a pre-condition for urban
planning and policy-making. However, inferring unknown attributes of urban spatial units …

The Weisfeiler-Lehman distance: Reinterpretation and connection with gnns

S Chen, S Lim, F Mémoli, Z Wan… - Topological, Algebraic …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we present a novel interpretation of the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) distance
introduced by\cite {chen2022weisfeilerlehman} using concepts from stochastic processes …

Geopointgan: Synthetic spatial data with local label differential privacy

T Cunningham, K Klemmer, H Wen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Synthetic data generation is a fundamental task for many data management and data
science applications. Spatial data is of particular interest, and its sensitive nature often leads …

Towards probabilistic Weather Forecasting with Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Normalizing Flows

C Winkler - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06958, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative normalizing flows are able to model multimodal spatial distributions, and they
have been shown to model temporal correlations successfully as well. These models …