TerraNova: A Foundation Model for the Anthropocene
A defining problem of the Anthropocene is to model the physical Earth and human societies as one coupled system, yet no learned representation spans their observational breadth. We argue the obstacle is geometric: the physical Earth is measured as continuous fields that ignore political borders, whereas societies are reported for administrative units. Earth-system foundation models serve the first geometry; coupling it to the second has required lossy averaging over borders. We introduce TerraNo
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Published: 31 July 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: unclassified
Retrieved: 3 August 2026
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