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23 Oct 2026, 12:11 AM	Hugging Face Blog	6.0	OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite embedding model that turns a year of Sentinel-1 radar plus Sentinel-2 and Landsat multispectral time series into one 128-dimensional vector per 10-meter pixel, with a 64-dimensional version also usable. Ai2 precomputed annual embeddings for the entire planet and published them on Source Cooperative, alongside a no-sign-in browser Embeddings Explorer for exploring and customizing maps. Across 27 evaluations on six continents against AlphaEarth Foundations and Tessera v2, the 128-dim embeddings ranked highest on 20 of 27 evals and the 64-dim version on 18 of 27; the release also introduces PLANTEUR, a tropical crop-type benchmark. Why: If you work on agriculture, land-cover, flood, or urban-change mapping in Malaysia or Southeast Asia, the expensive part — global 10m embeddings — is now precomputed and free to reuse. You can download the vectors and train a small classifier locally instead of fine-tuning a model with GPU access and storing raw imagery; the new PLANTEUR benchmark is specifically aimed at tropical farming, so it is worth testing the 64-dim embeddings first for a lightweight prototype before committing to a full imagery pipeline. geospatial embeddings open-data satellite-imagery

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23 Oct 2026, 12:11 AM

Hugging Face Blog

6.0

OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite embedding model that turns a year of Sentinel-1 radar plus Sentinel-2 and Landsat multispectral time series into one 128-dimensional vector per 10-meter pixel, with a 64-dimensional version also usable. Ai2 precomputed annual embeddings for the entire planet and published them on Source Cooperative, alongside a no-sign-in browser Embeddings Explorer for exploring and customizing maps. Across 27 evaluations on six continents against AlphaEarth Foundations and Tessera v2, the 128-dim embeddings ranked highest on 20 of 27 evals and the 64-dim version on 18 of 27; the release also introduces PLANTEUR, a tropical crop-type benchmark.

Why: If you work on agriculture, land-cover, flood, or urban-change mapping in Malaysia or Southeast Asia, the expensive part — global 10m embeddings — is now precomputed and free to reuse. You can download the vectors and train a small classifier locally instead of fine-tuning a model with GPU access and storing raw imagery; the new PLANTEUR benchmark is specifically aimed at tropical farming, so it is worth testing the 64-dim embeddings first for a lightweight prototype before committing to a full imagery pipeline.