IBM & ESA Release Open TerraMind for Environmental Insights
IBM and the European Space Agency (ESA) collaborated to develop TerraMind, a novel generative AI model for Earth observation
It is the product of a collaboration between researchers from the German Space Agency (DLR), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), IBM, ESA, and KP Labs
TerraMind strives for an intuitive understanding of geospatial data, going beyond merely using computer vision techniques to evaluate Earth observations
TerraMind is the first multi-modal generative AI model for Earth observation with “any-to-any” creative capabilities. It may therefore self-generate more training data from other modalities.
TerraMind is a compact, light model, even though it was trained on 500 billion tokens
TerraMind on Hugging Face is open source with IBM and ESA. As a result, the Earth observation community can use the model
TerraMind is a state-of-the-art generative AI model for Earth observation that stands out for its computation efficiency, multi-modal “any-to-any” architecture, training on the enormous TerraMesh dataset, and the novel TiM tuning method