Calibrated Probabilistic Interpolation for GEDI Biomass

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16834v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:35:33 GMT
• Title: Calibrated Probabilistic Interpolation for GEDI Biomass
• Authors: Robin Young, Srinivasan Keshav,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Attentive Neural Processes (ANPs), a probabilistic meta-learning framework that explicitly conditions predictions on local observation sets.<n>We validate this approach across five distinct biomes ranging from Tropical Amazonian forests to Boreal and Alpine ecosystems.<n>This work provides a scalable, theoretically rigorous alternative to ensemble variance for continental scale earth observation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Reliable wall-to-wall biomass mapping from NASA's GEDI mission requires interpolating sparse LiDAR observations across heterogeneous landscapes. While machine learning approaches like Random Forest and XGBoost are standard for this task, they treat spatial predictions of GEDI observations from multispectral or SAR remote sensing data as independent without adapting to the varying difficulty of heterogeneous landscapes. We demonstrate these approaches generally fail to produce calibrated prediction intervals. We identify that this stems from conflating ensemble variance with aleatoric uncertainty and ignoring local spatial context. To resolve this, we introduce Attentive Neural Processes (ANPs), a probabilistic meta-learning framework that explicitly conditions predictions on local observation sets and geospatial foundation model embeddings. Unlike static ensembles, ANPs learn a flexible spatial covariance function, allowing uncertainty estimates to expand in complex landscapes and contract in homogeneous areas. We validate this approach across five distinct biomes ranging from Tropical Amazonian forests to Boreal and Alpine ecosystems, demonstrating that ANPs achieve competitive accuracy while maintaining near-ideal uncertainty calibration. We demonstrate the operational utility of the method through few-shot adaptation, where the model recovers most of the performance gap in cross-region transfer using minimal local data. This work provides a scalable, theoretically rigorous alternative to ensemble variance for continental scale earth observation.

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