Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Emerging AI/ML for Earth System Science

Session ID#: 281149

Session Description:
The rapid expansion of spatiotemporal data from satellites, in situ observations, simulations, and sensor networks is transforming both Earth and space science. Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)—including deep learning, foundation models, and generative AI—are enabling new approaches to analyze and model complex, multiscale processes across the Earth system and near-Earth space environment. This session invites contributions that integrate spatiotemporal data analytics with emerging AI/ML methods to advance understanding, prediction, and decision-making.

We welcome studies addressing challenges such as data heterogeneity, sparsity, uncertainty, scalability, and interpretability. Topics include novel AI/ML models (e.g., transformers, graph neural networks, physics-informed learning), multi-source data fusion, hybrid physical–AI modeling, digital twins, and real-time monitoring systems. Applications may span hydrology, climate, extreme events, ecosystems, space weather, and heliophysics.

This session aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange and highlight innovations bridging data, models, and actionable intelligence across Earth and space systems.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • ED - Education
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1928 GIS science [INFORMATICS]
1942 Machine learning [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener:  Chaowei Phil Yang, George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Science, Fairfax, VA, United States
Convener:  Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Anusha Srirenganathan Malarvizhi, George Mason University, Geography and Geoinfomation Science, Fairfax, United States
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