{"id":239936,"date":"2025-10-25T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239936\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:25:17","slug":"unlocking-geospatial-insights-with-foundation-models-and-cross-modal-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239936\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking geospatial insights with foundation models and cross-modal reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"445ko\">For years, Google has developed AI models that enhance our understanding of the planet. These models help keep Google products fresh, for example, ensuring Maps is accurate by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/research\/open-buildings-ai-powered-maps-for-a-changing-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">analyzing satellite images<\/a> and giving Search users the most up-to-date alerts about <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-africa\/products\/explore-get-answers\/nowcasting-on-search-is-bringing-ai-powered-weather-forecasts-to-users-across-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">weather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/expanding-flood-forecasting-coverage-helping-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">natural<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/sustainability\/google-wildfire-boundary-maps-europe-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f8odl\">As individual models grow more powerful, we\u2019ve learned that many real-world questions require the combination of insights across domains. Answering complex queries like, &#8220;Where is a hurricane likely to make landfall? Which communities are most vulnerable and how should they prepare?&#8221; requires reasoning about imagery, population and the environment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a9dl3\">Earlier this year, we introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/google-earth-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Google Earth AI<\/a> to solve this core challenge. By pairing our family of powerful foundation models with a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.google\/blog\/geospatial-reasoning-unlocking-insights-with-generative-ai-and-multiple-foundation-models\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">geospatial reasoning<\/a> agent, which uses our latest Gemini models, it\u2019s becoming possible to perform complex, real-world reasoning at planetary scale. The models provide detailed understanding of our planet, grounded in real-world data. The agent, in turn, acts as an intelligent orchestrator. It deconstructs a complex question into a multi-step plan; executes the plan by calling on these foundation models, querying vast datastores, and using geospatial tools; and finally fuses the results at each step into a holistic answer.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"pma0\">Today, we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gle\/earthai-techreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">introducing new Earth AI innovations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>New Imagery and Population foundation models, along with technical details and evaluations showing state-of-the-art performance.Demonstrations of our geospatial reasoning agent using these models to solve complex, multi-step geospatial queries.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"22evo\">To learn more, we invite you to read our full technical paper, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gle\/earthai-techreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Google Earth AI: Unlocking Geospatial Insights with Foundation Models and Cross-Modal Reasoning<\/a>&#8220;. You can also get involved by <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/1DPfcuys2AU63HgZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">expressing interest<\/a> as we expand access to these new capabilities for developers and enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, Google has developed AI models that enhance our understanding of the planet. 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