From Proxies to Fields: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Global Radiation from Sparse Sensor Sequences

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Autori principali: Kobayashi, Kazuma, Roy, Samrendra, Koric, Seid, Abueidda, Diab, Alam, Syed Bahauddin
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author Kobayashi, Kazuma
Roy, Samrendra
Koric, Seid
Abueidda, Diab
Alam, Syed Bahauddin
author_facet Kobayashi, Kazuma
Roy, Samrendra
Koric, Seid
Abueidda, Diab
Alam, Syed Bahauddin
contents Accurate reconstruction of latent environmental fields from sparse and indirect observations is a foundational challenge across scientific domains-from atmospheric science and geophysics to public health and aerospace safety. Traditional approaches rely on physics-based simulators or dense sensor networks, both constrained by high computational cost, latency, or limited spatial coverage. We present the Temporal Radiation Operator Network (TRON), a spatiotemporal neural operator architecture designed to infer continuous global scalar fields from sequences of sparse, non-uniform proxy measurements. Unlike recent forecasting models that operate on dense, gridded inputs to predict future states, TRON addresses a more ill-posed inverse problem: reconstructing the current global field from sparse, temporally evolving sensor sequences, without access to future observations or dense labels. Demonstrated on global cosmic radiation dose reconstruction, TRON is trained on 22 years of simulation data and generalizes across 65,341 spatial locations, 8,400 days, and sequence lengths from 7 to 90 days. It achieves sub-second inference with relative L2 errors below 0.1%, representing a >58,000X speedup over Monte Carlo-based estimators. Though evaluated in the context of cosmic radiation, TRON offers a domain-agnostic framework for scientific field reconstruction from sparse data, with applications in atmospheric modeling, geophysical hazard monitoring, and real-time environmental risk forecasting.
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spellingShingle From Proxies to Fields: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Global Radiation from Sparse Sensor Sequences
Kobayashi, Kazuma
Roy, Samrendra
Koric, Seid
Abueidda, Diab
Alam, Syed Bahauddin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
Accurate reconstruction of latent environmental fields from sparse and indirect observations is a foundational challenge across scientific domains-from atmospheric science and geophysics to public health and aerospace safety. Traditional approaches rely on physics-based simulators or dense sensor networks, both constrained by high computational cost, latency, or limited spatial coverage. We present the Temporal Radiation Operator Network (TRON), a spatiotemporal neural operator architecture designed to infer continuous global scalar fields from sequences of sparse, non-uniform proxy measurements. Unlike recent forecasting models that operate on dense, gridded inputs to predict future states, TRON addresses a more ill-posed inverse problem: reconstructing the current global field from sparse, temporally evolving sensor sequences, without access to future observations or dense labels. Demonstrated on global cosmic radiation dose reconstruction, TRON is trained on 22 years of simulation data and generalizes across 65,341 spatial locations, 8,400 days, and sequence lengths from 7 to 90 days. It achieves sub-second inference with relative L2 errors below 0.1%, representing a >58,000X speedup over Monte Carlo-based estimators. Though evaluated in the context of cosmic radiation, TRON offers a domain-agnostic framework for scientific field reconstruction from sparse data, with applications in atmospheric modeling, geophysical hazard monitoring, and real-time environmental risk forecasting.
title From Proxies to Fields: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Global Radiation from Sparse Sensor Sequences
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12045