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StefaLand: An Efficient Geoscience Foundation Model That Improves Dynamic Land-Surface Predictions

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  • Haebom

Author

Nicholas Kraabel, Jiangtao Liu, Yuchen Bian, Daniel Kifer, Chaopeng Shen

Outline

StefaLand is a generative spatiotemporal Earth-based model for predicting land surface responses and human feedback due to climate change. The model outperforms existing state-of-the-art models across four tasks and five datasets: streamflow, soil moisture, and soil composition. StefaLand generalizes well across diverse data-sparse regions and supports a wide range of land surface applications, utilizing a masked autoencoder backbone, a position-aware architecture, attribute-based representations, and a residual fine-tuning adapter.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Demonstrates generalization performance in various data sparse regions.
Improve dynamic land surface interaction prediction and support various downstream applications.
Pre-training and fine-tuning possible with academic computational resources.
Outperforms state-of-the-art base models and fine-tuned vision-based models.
Limitations:
There is no specific mention of Limitations in the paper.
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