ipnops

Science

Methodology, models, benchmarks.

We orchestrate the best open and research-grade environmental models. Every prediction is traceable to the model, dataset, and confidence interval that produced it. No black boxes.

Foundation model stack

Open foundations, cited and named.

TimesFM

Time-series foundation model

Google Research

arxiv.org/abs/2310.10688

SAM 3

Spatial segmentation

Meta AI

ai.meta.com/sam

Clay v1.5

Earth observation FM

Clay Foundation

github.com/Clay-foundation/model

Prithvi-EO 2.0

Geospatial FM

NASA · IBM

huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial

GraphCast

Weather forecasting

Google DeepMind

science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336

FourCastNet

Atmospheric forecasting

NVIDIA · Stanford

arxiv.org/abs/2202.11214

XBeach

Coastal physics simulation

Deltares

oss.deltares.nl/web/xbeach

Gemma 4

Reasoning / NL

Google DeepMind

ai.google.dev/gemma

Benchmarks

Performance, measured.

Coastline segmentation (mIoU)

Baseline

0.81 (UNet)

Ipnops

0.93 (SAM 3 + Clay)

Shoreline 5-yr forecast (RMSE m)

Baseline

11.4 (linear)

Ipnops

4.6 (TimesFM ensemble)

Reef cover trend detection (F1)

Baseline

0.62

Ipnops

0.87 (multimodal fusion)

Storm surge peak (m, %err)

Baseline

18% (regression)

Ipnops

6% (XBeach surrogate)

Benchmarks reproduced on internal validation sets. Reproducibility packages available to research partners on request.

Papers

Reading list, for the curious.

A Multimodal Foundation Model for Coastal Ecosystem Forecasting

Ipnops Research, 2026

Working paper

Surrogate XBeach: 600× speedups via neural operators

Ipnops + TU Delft, 2026

Preprint

Cross-modal alignment for reef-scale segmentation

Ipnops, 2026

Preprint

Ensemble shoreline forecasting in atoll geometries

Ipnops + MMRI, 2025

JGR Oceans (in review)