用物理约束建模天气对地表变化的影响,提升遥感预测的不确定性表达能力。
EO-WM: A Physically Informed World Model for Probabilistic Earth Observation Forecasting

- 设计物理驱动条件框架,分离气候基线与异常,累积极端天气应力
- 在极端夏季和季节配对任务中,植被退化预测误差降低5.63%,方向命中率提升7.80%
- 适用于需响应天气变化的农业、生态监测场景,支持可解释性决策
地球观测(EO)预测旨在根据卫星观测,在气象条件变化下预测地表动态。本文将此任务视为部分可观测、由天气驱动的世界建模问题,其中天气作为条件信号,而预测因观测稀疏和未观测地表状态仍具不确定性。现有方法未能充分捕捉该设定:确定性模型将不确定性压缩为单一未来预测,扩散模型通常将气象变量视为无差别的条件信号,且现有基准主要关注重建精度而非预测对天气变化的正确响应。我们提出EO-WM,一种用于多光谱遥感预测的视频扩散变换器。其引入物理信息条件框架,通过气候基线、气象异常和累积物理应力信号表示气象强迫。具体而言,通过不同路径分离基线与异常,并随时间累积异常强迫以捕捉持续热浪与干旱压力。为评估天气响应行为,我们引入两个诊断基准:极端夏季基准,用于严重性感知的植被退化预测;季节匹配对基准,用于测试在天气变化下的响应保真度。实验表明,EO-WM在预测归一化差异植被指数(NDVI)下降幅度上相对误差减少5.63%,方向命中率相对提升7.80%,同时在标准像素级指标上保持竞争力。模型与基准代码将开源于https://github.com/Luo-Z13/EO-WM。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Earth Observation (EO) forecasting aims to predict future Earth surface dynamics from satellite observations under changing meteorological conditions. In this paper, we view this task as a partially observed, weather-driven world modeling problem, in which weather acts as a conditioning signal, while forecasting remains uncertain due to sparse observations and unobserved land-surface states. However, existing methods do not fully capture this setting: deterministic models collapse uncertainty into a single future prediction, while diffusion-based methods typically treat weather variables as undifferentiated conditioning signals, and existing benchmarks focus mainly on reconstruction accuracy rather than whether forecasts respond correctly to changed weather forcing.We introduce EO-WM, a video diffusion transformer for multispectral EO forecasting. EO-WM incorporates a physically informed conditioning framework that represents meteorological forcing through a climatological baseline, weather anomalies, and cumulative physical stress signals. Specifically, it separates baseline and anomaly through distinct conditioning pathways, and accumulates anomalous forcing over time to capture sustained heat and drought stress. To evaluate weather-response behavior beyond standard metrics, we introduce two diagnostic benchmarks: an Extreme Summer Benchmark for severity-aware prediction of vegetation degradation under extreme weather, and a Seasonal Matched-Pair Benchmark for testing response fidelity under changed weather forcing. Experiments show that EO-WM reduces the error in predicted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) decline amplitude by a relative 5.63% and improves directional hit rate by a relative 7.80%, while remaining competitive on standard pixel-level metrics. The benchmarks and model will be made open-source at https://github.com/Luo-Z13/EO-WM.
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