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This paper presents a novel spatio-temporal LSTM (SPATIAL) architecture for time series forecasting applied to environmental datasets. The framework was evaluated across multiple sensors and for three different oceanic variables: current…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-27 Yihao Hu , Fearghal O'Donncha , Paulito Palmes , Meredith Burke , Ramon Filgueira , Jon Grant

We present additional tests of our algorithm aimed at filtering out systematics due to data reduction and instrumental imperfections in time series obtained by ensemble photometry. Signal detection efficiency is demonstrated, and a method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Kovacs , G. A. Bakos

A novel algorithm is developed to downscale soil moisture (SM), obtained at satellite scales of 10-40 km by utilizing its temporal correlations to historical auxiliary data at finer scales. Including such correlations drastically reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Subit Chakrabarti , Jasmeet Judge , Tara Bongiovanni , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Optical satellite image time series are extensively used in many Earth observation applications, including agriculture, climate monitoring, and land surface analysis. However, clouds and swath edges result in irregular sampling along the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Véronique Defonte , Dawa Derksen , Alexandre Constantin , Bastien Nespoulous

We describe a method for reconstructing spatially explicit maps of seasonal palaeoclimate variables from site-based reconstructions. Using a 3D-Variational technique, the method finds the best statistically unbiased, and spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-10 S. F. Cleator , S. P. Harrison , N. K. Nichols , I. C. Prentice , I. Roulstone

We propose an approach to assess the synchronization of rigidly mounted sensors based on their rotational motion. Using function similarity measures combined with a sliding window approach, our approach is capable of estimating time-varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thomas Wodtko , Alexander Scheible , Michael Buchholz

Solar activity is an important driver of long-term climate trends and must be accounted for in climate models. Unfortunately, direct measurements of this quantity over long periods do not exist. The only observation related to solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 Sophie Mathieu , Laure Lefèvre , Rainer von Sachs , Véronique Delouille , Christian Ritter , Frédéric Clette

Catalogs of the Zurich Observatory contain positional information on sunspots, prominences and faculae in late 19th and early 20th centuries. This database is given in handwritten tabular form and was not systematically analysed earlier. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Egor Illarionov , Rainer Arlt

Accurate intraday solar irradiance forecasting is crucial for optimizing dispatch planning and electricity trading. For this purpose, we introduce a novel and effective approach that includes three distinguishing components from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yanan Niu , Roy Sarkis , Demetri Psaltis , Mario Paolone , Christophe Moser , Luisa Lambertini

Seasonal-trend decomposition is one of the most fundamental concepts in time series analysis that supports various downstream tasks, including time series anomaly detection and forecasting. However, existing decomposition methods rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Xiao He , Ye Li , Jian Tan , Bin Wu , Feifei Li

Many real-world phenomena can be represented by a spatio-temporal signal: where, when, and how much. Social media is a tantalizing data source for those who wish to monitor such signals. Unlike most prior work, we assume that the target…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-11 Jun-Ming Xu , Aniruddha Bhargava , Robert Nowak , Xiaojin Zhu

We have reconstructed the sunspot group count, not by comparisons with other reconstructions and correcting those where they were deemed to be deficient, but by a re-assessment of original sources. The resulting series is a pure solar index…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Leif Svalgaard , Kennuth H. Schatten

Forecasting load at the feeder level has become increasingly challenging with the penetration of behind-the-meter solar, as this self-generation (also called total generation) is only visible to the utility as aggregated net-load. This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Allison M. Campbell , Soumya Kundu , Andrew P. Reiman , Orestis Vasios , Ian Beil , Andy Eiden

Knowledge of solar irradiance variability is critical to Earth's climate models and understanding the solar influence on Earth's climate. Direct solar irradiance measurements are only available since 1978. Reconstructions of past…

In radio astronomy, the challenge of reconstructing a sky map from time ordered data (TOD) is known as an inverse problem. Standard map-making techniques and gridding algorithms are commonly employed to address this problem, each offering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Haolin Zhang , Shifan Zuo , Le Zhang

Automotive radar has increasingly attracted attention due to growing interest in autonomous driving technologies. Acquiring situational awareness using multimodal data collected at high sampling rates by various sensing devices including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Madhumitha Sakthi , Ahmed Tewfik , Marius Arvinte , Haris Vikalo

When a territory is poorly instrumented, geostationary satellites data can be useful to predict global solar radiation. In this paper, we use geostationary satellites data to generate 2-D time series of solar radiation for the next hour.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Cyril Voyant , Pierrick Haurant , Marc Muselli , Christophe Paoli , Marie Laure Nivet

Multi-modal Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) analysis faces significant computational challenges for live land monitoring applications. While Transformer architectures excel at capturing temporal dependencies and fusing multi-modal data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Iris Dumeur , Jérémy Anger , Gabriele Facciolo

Solar radiation prediction is an important challenge for the electrical engineer because it is used to estimate the power developed by commercial photovoltaic modules. This paper deals with the problem of solar radiation prediction based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Giacomo Capizzi , Christian Napoli , Francesco Bonanno

A new algorithm is developed to jointly recover a temporal sequence of images from noisy and under-sampled Fourier data. Specifically, we consider the case where each data set is missing vital information that prevents its (individual)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Yao Xiao , Jan Glaubitz , Anne Gelb , Guohui Song