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Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change
Part of Google Earth Engine, AlphaEarth Foundations is a chip off Google’s DeepMind AI block—and it's here to help save the world.
The goal, Google says, is for users of the service to be able to better understand how specific ecosystems on the planet work, including how air quality, sunlight, groundwater, and even human construction projects vary and change across a landscape. How AlphaEarth Foundations works: by taking non-uniformly sampled frames from a video sequence to index any position in time, the model creates a continuous view of the location while outlining measurements. Previously, Google’s Earth Engine processes and analyzes satellite data that has then been used to create interactive, high-resolution maps of deforestation across the world and compile detailed views of bodies of water —rivers, lakes, oceans, and seas—and how these had changed over time.
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