Living definition
What is Google AlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding V1)?
Geospatial & Earth Observation Energy, Climate, Space & Materials
- As of
- 2026-10-21
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- Method
- v1.4.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
AlphaEarth Foundations is a geospatial AI model from Google DeepMind that fuses optical, radar, elevation, climate, and other Earth-observation data sources into a single compact numerical representation, or embedding, for every location on the planet's surface. These embeddings let researchers run classification, change-detection, and similarity-search tasks on Earth's surface without reprocessing the enormous raw satellite archives each time.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-10-21, verified readiness is 55 (claimed 55, reported 55, gap 0) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Use the embeddings for bounded geospatial analysis with local validation.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Google AlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding V1).
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06