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EarthNet2021 (EarthNet2021: Earth Surface Forecasting)
Satellite images are snapshots of the Earth surface. We propose to forecast them. We frame Earth surface forecasting as the task of predicting satellite imagery conditioned on future weather. EarthNet2021 is a large dataset suitable for training deep neural networks on the task. It contains Sentinel~2 satellite imagery at $20$~m resolution, matching topography and mesoscale ($1.28$~km) meteorological variables packaged into $32000$ samples. Additionally we frame EarthNet2021 as a challenge allowing for model intercomparison. Resulting forecasts will greatly improve (>×50) over the spatial resolution found in numerical models. This allows localized impacts from extreme weather to be predicted, thus supporting downstream applications such as crop yield prediction, forest health assessments or biodiversity monitoring. Find data, code, and how to participate at www.earthnet.tech.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 4 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Earth Surface Forecasting | EarthNet2021 IID Track | Earthformer EarthNetScore 0.3425 | Earthformer: Exploring Space-Time Transformers for Earth... | amazon-science/earth-forecasting-transformer +1 | 7 | Compare |
| Earth Surface Forecasting | EarthNet2021 OOD Track | Earthformer EarthNetScore 0.3252 | Earthformer: Exploring Space-Time Transformers for Earth... | amazon-science/earth-forecasting-transformer +1 | 7 | Compare |
| Earth Surface Forecasting | EarthNet2021 Extreme Track | SGConvLSTM EarthNetScore 0.2740 | Deep learning for satellite image forecasting of... | rudolfwilliam/satellite_image_forecasting | 6 | Compare |
| Earth Surface Forecasting | EarthNet2021 Seasonal Track | Persistence Baseline EarthNetScore 0.2676 | EarthNet2021: A large-scale dataset and challenge for... | earthnet2021/earthnet-model-intercomparison-suite +1 | 6 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
4 shown of 4 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 10. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| Deep learning for satellite image forecasting of vegetation greenness | 1 | 8 | 17 Aug 2022 | not harvested |
| Earthformer: Exploring Space-Time Transformers for Earth System Forecasting | 2 | 2 | 12 Jul 2022 | ran 0 of 11 samples (11 unverified) |
| Understanding the Role of Weather Data for Earth Surface Forecasting using a ConvLSTM-based Model | 1 | 4 | 20 Jun 2022 | not harvested |
| EarthNet2021: A large-scale dataset and challenge for Earth surface forecasting as a guided video prediction task | 2 | 12 | 16 Apr 2021 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
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Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- EarthNet2021
- EarthNet2021 IID Track
- EarthNet2021 OOD Track
- EarthNet2021 Extreme Track
- EarthNet2021 Seasonal Track
5 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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