PROBLEM: Satellites collect a wealth of information about Earth, but data they collect about the planet’s water bodies either have high spatial detail with just occasional updates or lower spatial detail with more frequent updates, forcing scientists to choose between accuracy and frequency. Data fusion, which combines data snapshots from multiple sources, is used as a workaround but is limited by sensitivity to atmospheric disturbances and other climatic factors that can result in noise, outliers, and missing data.
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