AI for the environment - Earth System
We are developing Earth System to be a multimodal geospatial intelligence platform that merges planetary-scale foundation models with robust, open infrastructure, empowering users to tackle diverse environmental and planetary challenges without requiring deep AI expertise. By unifying weather and climate forecasts, satellite imagery, radar, and GPS data into a single integrated platform, we will redefine what’s possible in Earth observation and analysis.
Multimodal foundation models
Earth System will revolutionize geospatial intelligence by delivering state-of-the-art, open-source foundation models to tackle the most complex environmental challenges. Earth System provides foundation models for classification, change detection, segmentation, forecasting, and related tasks by leveraging multimodal data across diverse ecosystems, especially the world's most underserved regions.
Foundational AI infrastructure
Our platform will remove existing barriers to AI-powered intelligence by combining cutting-edge planetary foundation models with the infrastructure necessary to tune them for bespoke use cases in a single, adaptable platform. We aim to ensure that decision-makers such as land-use managers, conservationists, policymakers, and researchers, have the information and tools necessary to act quickly and decisively.
Delivering impact through partners
We are collaborating with an initial group of select organizations across many domains—agriculture, forestry, marine and terrestrial conservation, deforestation, climate, and environmental policy—seeking to leverage AI to amplify their impact to achieve positive environmental outcomes. These partnerships will inform what we build and are critical to Earth System’s success. We seek additional partners who can leverage the Earth System platform to drive impact.
Open, accessible, and built for impact
By offering an open and accessible AI stack, we aim to enable users to fine-tune and deploy customized solutions without requiring extensive AI expertise. Its cost-effective, scalable architecture is intended to simplify workflows, reduce maintenance, and democratize access to advanced geospatial tools.
Get in touch
Please contact us at earthsystem@allenai.org if you think our Earth System platform could help support your initiative and you would like to be involved in shaping the development of this critical platform.