Find land like this: Ai2 opens its satellite AI explorer
3-line summary
- Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3 and a no-login map explorer on October 22.
- Precomputed annual satellite features support similarity searches and change comparisons at 10-meter resolution.
- At launch, 2023–2025 cover the global target extent; 2017–2022 cover selected countries.
Where else is there land like this field or forest? On October 22, Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3, precomputed satellite features and a browser-based Embeddings Explorer. Ai2 says the explorer requires no account or user-side GPU inference for basic analysis.
An embedding condenses observations from a year of satellite imagery into a numerical representation. The technical report describes annual features at 10-meter resolution, available as 128 values or a smaller 64-value representation. Computing these features once lets later analyses reuse them.
Similarity search starts with an area and a reference point inside it. For a classification map, users can label sample points, train a small classifier and export a GeoTIFF. The explorer also supports comparisons between years and checks against the underlying Sentinel-2 imagery.
At launch, 2023–2025 data cover the global target extent, while 2017–2022 cover selected countries. Antarctica is excluded. These are annual summaries rather than live monitoring; a changed feature vector alone does not establish why a landscape changed.
Why it matters
AI Ping sees a useful first step for narrowing a location and research question before running a satellite model. Check output maps against source imagery and separate validation samples before using them for decisions.
Who it's for
- Office workers
- For environmental or land research, check year coverage first and compare candidate changes with source imagery.
- Developers
- Start a pilot with precomputed features, and ensure missing pixels are not mistaken for change signals.
Sources
- OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet — Ai2
- OlmoEarth v1.3 Embeddings — technical report — Ai2 · Team OlmoEarth
- OlmoEarth v1.3 annual embeddings — data, coverage and caveats — OlmoEarth · Source Cooperative
- OlmoEarth Embeddings Explorer — Ai2 · OlmoEarth
