Determine whether wildfire disturbance sensitivity extends to other disturbances

Determine whether the disturbance sensitivity demonstrated for wildfire in annual Earth-observation embeddings extends to disturbance types beyond wildfire.

Background

The paper demonstrates that annual Tessera embeddings preserve a strong wildfire-disturbance signal that supports burned-area delineation, regional mapping, cross-continental transfer, and approximate fire-timing estimation. However, the analysis is focused specifically on wildfire disturbance.

The authors leave unresolved whether the representation's sensitivity reflects a broader capacity to encode abrupt environmental disturbances or is specific to wildfire-related trajectories.