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Google introduces AlphaEarth Foundations to advance global environmental mapping


Google has launched AlphaEarth Foundations, an advanced AI model that brings the Earth into unprecedented focus. Developed by DeepMind, Google’s...

The initiative forms part of Google DeepMind’s wider strategy to apply AI for societal benefit, accelerating climate research, improving disaster preparedness and supporting sustainable urban development. The ready-to-use format of the embeddings allows researchers, governments and businesses to begin analysis without extensive preprocessing, enabling activities such as comparative studies, clustering, change detection and automated classification. By making high-quality, spatially precise data more accessible and efficient to process, AlphaEarth Foundations is set to become an essential tool in environmental monitoring, biodiversity protection and sustainable development.

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