Explainable Earth Surface Forecasting under Extreme Events

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01770v2
• Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 15:54:24 GMT
• Title: Explainable Earth Surface Forecasting under Extreme Events
• Authors: Oscar J. Pellicer-Valero, Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres, Chaonan Ji, Miguel D. Mahecha, Gustau Camps-Valls,
• Abstract summary: We train a convolutional long short-term memory-based architecture on the novel DeepExtremeCubes dataset. DeepExtremeCubes includes around 40,000 long-term Sentinel-2 minicubes (January 2016-October 2022) worldwide. The model achieved an R$2$ score of 0.9055 in the test set.
• Score: 5.655308942083527
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: With climate change-related extreme events on the rise, high dimensional Earth observation data presents a unique opportunity for forecasting and understanding impacts on ecosystems. This is, however, impeded by the complexity of processing, visualizing, modeling, and explaining this data. To showcase how this challenge can be met, here we train a convolutional long short-term memory-based architecture on the novel DeepExtremeCubes dataset. DeepExtremeCubes includes around 40,000 long-term Sentinel-2 minicubes (January 2016-October 2022) worldwide, along with labeled extreme events, meteorological data, vegetation land cover, and topography map, sampled from locations affected by extreme climate events and surrounding areas. When predicting future reflectances and vegetation impacts through kernel normalized difference vegetation index, the model achieved an R$^2$ score of 0.9055 in the test set. Explainable artificial intelligence was used to analyze the model's predictions during the October 2020 Central South America compound heatwave and drought event. We chose the same area exactly one year before the event as counterfactual, finding that the average temperature and surface pressure are generally the best predictors under normal conditions. In contrast, minimum anomalies of evaporation and surface latent heat flux take the lead during the event. A change of regime is also observed in the attributions before the event, which might help assess how long the event was brewing before happening. The code to replicate all experiments and figures in this paper is publicly available at https://github.com/DeepExtremes/txyXAI

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