Scalable inference of spatial regions and temporal signatures from time series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05008v1
• Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 15:07:37 GMT
• Title: Scalable inference of spatial regions and temporal signatures from time series
• Abstract summary: Regionalization aims to partition a spatial domain into contiguous regions that share similar characteristics.<n>Existing approaches for spatial regionalization typically rely on static spatial snapshots rather than evolving time series.<n>We propose an efficient and fully nonlinear framework for the regionalization of spatial time series.
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• Abstract: Regionalization aims to partition a spatial domain into contiguous regions that share similar characteristics, enabling more effective spatial analysis, policy making, and resource management. Existing approaches for spatial regionalization typically rely on static spatial snapshots rather than evolving time series. Meanwhile, most time series clustering methods ignore spatial structure or enforce spatial continuity through ad hoc regularization, constraining the number of inferred regions a priori either explicitly or implicitly. Utilizing the minimum description length principle from information theory, here we propose an efficient and fully nonparametric framework for the regionalization of spatial time series. Our method jointly infers a spatial partition along with a set of representative time series archetypes ("drivers") that best compress a spatiotemporal dataset, with a runtime log-linear in the number of time series. We demonstrate that this method can accurately recover planted regional structure and drivers in synthetic time series, and can extract meaningful structural regularities in large-scale empirical air quality and vegetation index records. Our method provides a principled and scalable framework for spatially contiguous partitioning, allowing interpretable temporal patterns and homogeneous regions to emerge directly from the data itself.

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