Meet AlphaEarth Foundations: Google DeepMind’s So Called ‘ Virtual Satellite’ in AI-Driven Planetary Mapping
Introduction: The Data Dilemma in Earth Observation Over fifty years since the first Landsat satellite, the planet is awash in an unprecedented flood of Earth observation (EO) data from satellites, radar, climate simulations, and in-situ measurements. Yet, a persistent problem remains: while data acquisition accelerates, high-quality, globally distributed ground-truth labels are scarce and expensive to…
