Living definition
What is Google AlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding V1)?
Geospatial & Earth Observation Energy, Climate, Space & Materials
- As of
- 2026-08-20
- Revision
- 2026-08-17.1
- 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 2026-08-20, 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
- 2026-08-17.1
- Hash
- sha256:0c37108a182f510fc8cf4d1dfc3a30339f2b59e62654201edea2f530a268707e
- Approved
- 2026-08-17