A Foundation Model for Satellite Images

The Prithvi-100M IBM Geospatial AI Foundation Model for NASA Earth Observation Data

Satellite image of the Karavasta Lagoon in Albania, 2017. Image credit: https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2017/03/karavasta_lagoon_albania/16854373-1-eng-GB/Karavasta_Lagoon_Albania.jpg. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

Foundation models are flexible deep learning algorithms that are designed for general tasks, rather than being immediately focused on specific tasks. Trained on large amounts of unlabeled data, they can be applied to a variety of downstream tasks with minimal…