Google Research publishes Earth AI to plan nature-restoration projects from satellite pixels

Google Research described Earth AI, a planning system that converts satellite imagery into actionable nature-restoration recommendations. The system pairs pixel-level land-cover analysis with optimization tools to help conservation groups and governments pick high-impact restoration sites at landscape scale. The work continues Google's push to use foundation models on geospatial data, following its earlier remote-sensing and land-use modeling. It also lands alongside Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's argument that AI and digitization could be the turning point in the race against plant extinction, as botanists deploy ML to identify species and detect flowering shifts.

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