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Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) needs foundation models (FMs) for reasoning over mobility and objects. This work identifies representational gaps and outlines research for transferable GEO representations from mobility data.

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  • Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
  • Foundation Models (FMs)
  • Machine Learning

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  • Foundation models excel in language, vision, and audio but lag in GeoAI.
  • GeoAI requires joint reasoning over geospatial objects and human mobility for real-world understanding.
  • Current GeoAI lacks unified, transferable representations for geospatially embedded objects (GEOs).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the bottleneck in GeoAI by developing general-purpose, transferable representations for GEOs.
  • To formalize challenges in modeling GEOs, distinct from language modeling.
  • To outline research directions for building effective GeoAI foundation models.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzing challenges in modeling GEOs: spatial continuity, scale, temporal dynamics, and data sparsity.
  • Comparing GEO representation to language tokens, highlighting fundamental differences.
  • Identifying representational gaps for behavior-informed GEOs.

    • Main Results:

    • Identified key representational gaps in current GeoAI research.
    • Formalized unique challenges in modeling GEOs compared to language data.
    • Proposed a research agenda for transferable GEO representations.

    Conclusions:

    • Unified, transferable representations for GEOs are critical for advancing GeoAI.
    • Future GeoAI foundation models should leverage large-scale human mobility and static contextual data.
    • Overcoming challenges in spatial continuity, scale, and temporal dynamics is key for generalization.