IBM and NASA will create an artificial intelligence model for Earth sciences

IBM, HuggingFace and NASA have collaborated to create an open-source geospatial baseline model that will form the basis for a new class of AI for climate and Earth science.

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IBM's project used the recently released Watsonx.ai as a baseline model using a year's worth of harmonised data from NASA's Landsat Sentinel-2 satellite. These data are collected by ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite pair, which are designed to provide high-resolution optical images of land and coastal areas in 13 spectral bands.

HuggingFace, for its part, hosts the model on its open-source AI platform. IBM says that by fine-tuning the model on "labeled data for flood and burn scar mapping" team was able to improve its performance by 15 per cent over current development levels, using half as much data.

"By combining IBM’s foundation model efforts aimed at creating flexible, reusable AI systems with NASA’s repository of Earth-satellite data, and making it available on the leading open-source AI platform, Hugging Face, we can leverage the power of collaboration to implement faster and more impactful solutions that will improve our planet." said Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI.

Source: Engadget