IBM, HuggingFace, and NASA Open-Sources Watsonx.ai Foundation Model

Abstraction: Open-source geospatial foundation model for climate and Earth research

Key points:

• IBM and Hugging Face released NASA's first open geospatial foundation model, the largest geospatial model on HuggingFace
• Trained on Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) satellite data across the continental US for one year
• Shows 15% improvement over existing techniques while requiring only half the labeled data
• Can be fine-tuned for deforestation tracking, crop yield prediction, and greenhouse gas monitoring
• A 250,000-terabyte influx of new mission data anticipated by 2024 creates urgent need for such models
• Commercial version integrated into IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite (EIS) planned for later in 2023

Connections: Ibm · Huggingface · Nasa · Foundation Models · Geospatial AI · Fine Tuning

Source: https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/08/06/ibm-huggingface-and-nasa-open-sources-watsonx%E2%80%A4ai-foundation-model-nasas-first-openly-available-ai-foundation-model-and-the-largest-geospatial-model-on-huggingface/