A Footprint-Aware, High-Resolution Approach for Carbon Flux Prediction Across Diverse Ecosystems

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Main Authors: Searcy, Jacob, Dulal, Anish, Bridgham, Scott, Cordes, Ashley, Aoki, Lillian, Bohannan, Brendan, Zhu, Qing, Silva, Lucas C. R.
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Published: 2025
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author Searcy, Jacob
Dulal, Anish
Bridgham, Scott
Cordes, Ashley
Aoki, Lillian
Bohannan, Brendan
Zhu, Qing
Silva, Lucas C. R.
author_facet Searcy, Jacob
Dulal, Anish
Bridgham, Scott
Cordes, Ashley
Aoki, Lillian
Bohannan, Brendan
Zhu, Qing
Silva, Lucas C. R.
contents Natural climate solutions (NCS) offer an approach to mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, monitoring the carbon drawdown of ecosystems over large geographic areas remains challenging. Eddy-flux covariance towers provide ground truth for predictive 'upscaling' models derived from satellite products, but many satellites now produce measurements on spatial scales smaller than a flux tower's footprint. We introduce Footprint-Aware Regression (FAR), a first-of-its-kind, deep-learning framework that simultaneously predicts spatial footprints and pixel-level (30 m scale) estimates of carbon flux. FAR is trained on our AMERI-FAR25 dataset which combines 439 site years of tower data with corresponding Landsat scenes. Our model produces high-resolution predictions and achieves R2 = 0.78 when predicting monthly net ecosystem exchange on test sites from a variety of ecosystems.
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spellingShingle A Footprint-Aware, High-Resolution Approach for Carbon Flux Prediction Across Diverse Ecosystems
Searcy, Jacob
Dulal, Anish
Bridgham, Scott
Cordes, Ashley
Aoki, Lillian
Bohannan, Brendan
Zhu, Qing
Silva, Lucas C. R.
Machine Learning
Natural climate solutions (NCS) offer an approach to mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, monitoring the carbon drawdown of ecosystems over large geographic areas remains challenging. Eddy-flux covariance towers provide ground truth for predictive 'upscaling' models derived from satellite products, but many satellites now produce measurements on spatial scales smaller than a flux tower's footprint. We introduce Footprint-Aware Regression (FAR), a first-of-its-kind, deep-learning framework that simultaneously predicts spatial footprints and pixel-level (30 m scale) estimates of carbon flux. FAR is trained on our AMERI-FAR25 dataset which combines 439 site years of tower data with corresponding Landsat scenes. Our model produces high-resolution predictions and achieves R2 = 0.78 when predicting monthly net ecosystem exchange on test sites from a variety of ecosystems.
title A Footprint-Aware, High-Resolution Approach for Carbon Flux Prediction Across Diverse Ecosystems
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01917