arxivcs.CV2026-07-15
From Surface Forecasting to Observability Forecasting: A Latent World Model for Cloud-Aware EO Monitoring
The bottleneck of Earth Observation processing chains is not the arrival of new imagery but whether the surface is actually visible when the image arrives. We study this as an observability forecasting problem on EarthNet2021. Given recent multispectral imagery and exogenous weat…