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TerraNostra-Bench:面向全球 1 公里土地利用重建的时空评估基准

TerraNostra-Bench: Benchmarking Spatial Downscaling and Temporal Rollout for Global 1-km Land-Use Reconstruction

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用卫星数据重建 1955 到 2019 年每年 1 公分辨率的土地利用地图,这篇论文把评估方法拆得挺细,做地球系统建模的可以看看。

TerraNostra-Bench 将高分辨率土地利用重建拆分为空间降尺度和自回归时间外推两个维度,重点评分稀有的土地利用变化像素而非静态背景。团队以语义分割任务框架,结合粗分辨率情景数据、气候分类与静态地理特征,生成 1 km 分辨率的年度土地利用地图。对比 U-Net 和 Swin 两种骨干后发现:自回归先验信息量最大但误差随外推累积,13 年内自回归模型损失 5.7-7.2 个精度点,非自回归仅损失 2.2-2.8 个。该权衡可通过推理时先验信任阈值和训练时损失加权调节,校准最多可挽回 10 个精度点,同时保持变化敏感度高于持久性基线。

原文 · arXiv cs.LG

TerraNostra-Bench: Benchmarking Spatial Downscaling and Temporal Rollout for Global 1-km Land-Use Reconstruction

Uncertainty in the terrestrial carbon cycle remains a major constraint in climate projections, partly due to imperfect land surface representations in Earth system models. We propose a data-driven framework for high-resolution land-use reconstruction, treated as a semantic-segmentation task, that combines coarse-resolution scenario data and climate classification with static geophysical features to produce annual land-use maps at 1 km resolution. We introduce TerraNostra-Bench, a change-aware evaluation protocol that separates spatial downscaling from autoregressive temporal rollout and scores models on the rare land-use-change pixels rather than the dominant static background. Using it, we compare convolutional (U-Net) and transformer (Swin) backbones in autoregressive and non-autoregressive schemes against persistence, linear, and shallow convolutional baselines. The autoregressive prior is the most informative input yet accumulates error over long rollouts: autoregressive models lose 5.7-7.2 accuracy points over 13 years, against 2.2-2.8 for non-autoregressive models. This trade-off is governed by the autoregressive choice rather than the backbone. It can be tuned by an inference-time prior-trust threshold that requires no retraining and by the training-time weighting of reconstruction and change objectives; the two levers trace complementary frontiers, with calibration recovering up to 10 accuracy points while keeping change sensitivity above the persistence floor. Extrapolating beyond the training window, backward to 1955-1959 and forward to 2015-2019 under scenario forcing, the models retain most of their in-window skill and show the same trade-off, indicating it is intrinsic to the design. This work provides the methodological foundation and evaluation surface for a forthcoming temporally continuous land-use product.