SERT: A Transfomer Based Model for Spatio-Temporal Sensor Data with Missing Values for Environmental Monitoring

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03042v2
• Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 08:26:57 GMT
• Title: SERT: A Transfomer Based Model for Spatio-Temporal Sensor Data with Missing Values for Environmental Monitoring
• Authors: Amin Shoari Nejad, Roc\'io Alaiz-Rodr\'iguez, Gerard D. McCarthy, Brian Kelleher, Anthony Grey, Andrew Parnell
• Abstract summary: Data collected from sensors often contain missing values due to faulty equipment or maintenance issues. We propose two models that are capable of performing multivariate-temporal forecasting while handling missing data without need for imputation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Environmental monitoring is crucial to our understanding of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The availability of large-scale spatio-temporal data from sources such as sensors and satellites allows us to develop sophisticated models for forecasting and understanding key drivers. However, the data collected from sensors often contain missing values due to faulty equipment or maintenance issues. The missing values rarely occur simultaneously leading to data that are multivariate misaligned sparse time series. We propose two models that are capable of performing multivariate spatio-temporal forecasting while handling missing data naturally without the need for imputation. The first model is a transformer-based model, which we name SERT (Spatio-temporal Encoder Representations from Transformers). The second is a simpler model named SST-ANN (Sparse Spatio-Temporal Artificial Neural Network) which is capable of providing interpretable results. We conduct extensive experiments on two different datasets for multivariate spatio-temporal forecasting and show that our models have competitive or superior performance to those at the state-of-the-art.

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