AI-Driven Weather Data Superresolution via Data Fusion for Precision Agriculture

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Authors: Jiri Pihrt, Petr Šimánek, Miroslav Čepek, Karel Charvát, Alexander Kovalenko, Šárka Horáková, Michal Kepka
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Abstract

Accurate field-scale meteorological information is required for precision agriculture, but operational numerical weather prediction products remain spatially coarse and cannot resolve local microclimate variability. This study proposes a data fusion superresolution workflow that combines global GFS predictors (0.25°), regional station observations from Southern Moravia (Czech Republic), and static physiographic descriptors (elevation and terrain gradients) to predict the 2 m air temperature 24 h ahead and to generate spatially continuous high-resolution temperature fields. Several model families (LightGBM, TabPFN, Transformer, and Bayesian neural fields) are evaluated under spatiotemporal splits designed to test generalization to unseen time periods and unseen stations; spatial mapping is implemented via a KNN interpolation layer in the physiographic feature space. All learned configurations reduce the mean absolute error relative to raw GFS across splits. In the most operationally relevant regime (unseen stations and unseen future period), TabPFN-KNN achieves the lowest MAE (1.26 °C), corresponding to an ≈24% reduction versus GFS (1.66 °C). The results support the feasibility of an operational, sensor-infrastructure-compatible pipeline for high-resolution temperature superresolution in agricultural landscapes.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Smart Agriculture and AI Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Soil Geostatistics and Mapping

Publication details

Journal / source
Sensors
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
1297–1297
Publication date
17 February 2026
Language
EN