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Living definition

What is Google AlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding V1)?

Geospatial & Earth Observation Energy, Climate, Space & Materials

As of
2026-07-23
Revision
2026-07-23.1
Method
v1.3.0

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 2026-07-23, verified readiness is 67 (claimed 85, reported 77, gap 18) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Adopt with guardrails.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Google AlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding V1).

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-07-23.1
Hash
sha256:2946693d2bc5cb60960d58d1e68b228b21021ebbdb21122cce1fb0a6793301ce
Approved
2026-07-23

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