Revolutionary ‘virtual satellite’ shows Earth in detail never seen before

By Soo Kim – Life and Trends Reporter:

A new AI model that can map the Earth in “unprecedented detail” will allow scientists to have a more precise and real-time view of our changing planet

The system combines huge amounts of observation data and could be used to track climate change and other environmental issues.

Launched by Google DeepMind, the search engine’s AI research laboratory, AlphaEarth Foundations uses petabytes of Earth observation data to “accurately and efficiently” detail the entirety of the planet’s terrestrial land and coastal waters, DeepMind said in a statement.

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It’s not a finished product. It’s a foundation model. We still need to build the layer on top of it.

Whilst it is absolutely amazing, you still have to wait for people to figure out how to use it and build it into something functional