Spatio-Temporal Forecasting With Gridded Remote Sensing Data Using Feed-Backward Decoding

Abstract

We present a novel deep learning approach for spatio-temporal forecasting with remote sensing data, extending a previous model named Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Network (STConvS2S) in several directions. Experiments using datasets from previous studies show that the proposed approaches outperform the original STConvS2S and other baseline models on tasks related to predicting future time-steps. In tests related to predicting a missing time-step, some of the proposed extensions also lead to improvements over the original STConvS2S architecture, although simpler models seem to be beneficial in this scenario. CCS CONCEPTS • Computing methodologies → Neural networks; Supervised learning by regression; • Applied computing → Earth and atmospheric sciences.