Summary of Droughtset: Understanding Drought Through Spatial-temporal Learning, by Xuwei Tan et al.
DroughtSet: Understanding Drought Through Spatial-Temporal Learning
by Xuwei Tan, Qian Zhao, Yanlan Liu, Xueru Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel dataset, DroughtSet, is proposed for predicting drought at subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) scales. This dataset integrates remote sensing and reanalysis data from the contiguous United States (CONUS), providing a real-world benchmark for machine learning models and time-series forecasting methods. A spatial-temporal model, SPDrought, is also introduced, which learns from physical and biological features to predict three types of droughts simultaneously. The importance of these features is quantified using multiple strategies. This work aims to contribute to climate science by predicting and understanding the occurrence of droughts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Drought is a major natural disaster that affects water resources and agriculture. To prevent its impact, it’s crucial to predict when drought will occur. However, this task is challenging because many factors influence droughts. Researchers have used deep learning for some climate forecasting challenges, but not specifically for predicting drought. This study proposes a new dataset called DroughtSet that combines data from different sources across the United States. The dataset provides information about three types of drought and can be used to test machine learning models. The researchers also developed a model called SPDrought that predicts droughts based on physical and biological factors. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Machine learning * Temporal model * Time series
