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| author | Khan, Jowaria Friedman, Alexa Evans, Sydney Klein, Rachel Wang, Runzi Manz, Katherine E. Beins, Kaley Andrews, David Q. Bondi-Kelly, Elizabeth |
| author_facet | Khan, Jowaria Friedman, Alexa Evans, Sydney Klein, Rachel Wang, Runzi Manz, Katherine E. Beins, Kaley Andrews, David Q. Bondi-Kelly, Elizabeth |
| contents | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants with significant public health impacts, yet large-scale monitoring remains severely limited due to the high cost and logistical challenges of field sampling. The lack of samples leads to difficulty simulating their spread with physical models and limited scientific understanding of PFAS transport in surface waters. Yet, rich geospatial and satellite-derived data describing land cover, hydrology, and industrial activity are widely available. We introduce FOCUS, a geospatial deep learning framework for PFAS contamination mapping that integrates sparse PFAS observations with large-scale environmental context, including priors derived from hydrological connectivity, land cover, source proximity, and sampling distance. These priors are integrated into a principled, noise-aware loss, yielding a robust training objective under sparse labels. Across extensive ablations, robustness analyses, and real-world validation, FOCUS consistently outperforms baselines including sparse segmentation, Kriging, and pollutant transport simulations, while preserving spatial coherence and scalability over large regions. Our results demonstrate how AI can support environmental science by providing screening-level risk maps that prioritize follow-up sampling and help connect potential sources to surface-water contamination patterns in the absence of complete physical models. |
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| spellingShingle | FOCUS on Contamination: Hydrology-Informed Noise-Aware Learning for Geospatial PFAS Mapping Khan, Jowaria Friedman, Alexa Evans, Sydney Klein, Rachel Wang, Runzi Manz, Katherine E. Beins, Kaley Andrews, David Q. Bondi-Kelly, Elizabeth Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning I.2.1; I.2.10; I.4.6; I.4.9; I.4.10; J.2 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants with significant public health impacts, yet large-scale monitoring remains severely limited due to the high cost and logistical challenges of field sampling. The lack of samples leads to difficulty simulating their spread with physical models and limited scientific understanding of PFAS transport in surface waters. Yet, rich geospatial and satellite-derived data describing land cover, hydrology, and industrial activity are widely available. We introduce FOCUS, a geospatial deep learning framework for PFAS contamination mapping that integrates sparse PFAS observations with large-scale environmental context, including priors derived from hydrological connectivity, land cover, source proximity, and sampling distance. These priors are integrated into a principled, noise-aware loss, yielding a robust training objective under sparse labels. Across extensive ablations, robustness analyses, and real-world validation, FOCUS consistently outperforms baselines including sparse segmentation, Kriging, and pollutant transport simulations, while preserving spatial coherence and scalability over large regions. Our results demonstrate how AI can support environmental science by providing screening-level risk maps that prioritize follow-up sampling and help connect potential sources to surface-water contamination patterns in the absence of complete physical models. |
| title | FOCUS on Contamination: Hydrology-Informed Noise-Aware Learning for Geospatial PFAS Mapping |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning I.2.1; I.2.10; I.4.6; I.4.9; I.4.10; J.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14894 |