TM-005Flooded vegetation gives the lowest reconstruction error of any land-cover class, not the highest

Jakub Słowikowski, Mateusz Boryczka

SourceWhere and Why TerraMind's Optical-to-SAR Generation Fails

The single strongest correlate is flooded vegetation, and it runs the opposite way to what you might guess. Tiles dominated by flooded vegetation come out with the lowest reconstruction errors of any land-cover class, not the highest.

Evidence
correlational
Key metric
Spearman rho = -0.32 for flooded vegetation
Caveat
The authors offer the bimodal optical and SAR signature of inundated wetlands as a plausible explanation, not a tested one.
Model
TerraMind v1 base
Datasets
TerraMesh [eval]
Methods
Spearman rank correlation [primary], Benjamini-Hochberg FDR correction [validation]
Related findings
TM-003, TM-004
Extraction
automatic-extraction