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"This breakthrough enables scientists to do something that was impossible until now," according to the system's creators.

Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations is a new AI system that processes vast satellite data to create highly detailed, ...

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI system that processes satellite data 16x more efficiently to create ...

AI is used to process satellite imagery to monitor climate change, but scientists warn that analysis is still falling behind ...

Reporters can now access and download satellite images good enough to see individual buildings at almost every location on Earth — in minutes, with no special skills, and entirely for free. Of course, ...

An image consisting of data collected by ESA's Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1C satellites reveal a 'coherence map', where the fault appears as a dark fracture slicing through the land.