Ai2 launches OlmoEarth platform: processing continent-scale satellite data for fractions of a penny
allen institute for ai (ai2) launched the olmoearth platform to process terabytes of satellite imagery into geospatial maps in under a day, enabling environmental organizations to monitor deforestation and wildfires at a fraction of the previous cost.
ai2 introduced the olmoearth platform to address the infrastructure gap in applying ai to climate and environmental challenges. built to support the olmoearth family of models, the platform manages the full lifecycle of geospatial ai—from handling multi-provider satellite data with varying projections to running inference on terabytes of imagery. engineered to optimize costs, it routes high-volume data acquisition and preprocessing to cpus while reserving gpus strictly for model inference, allowing continent-scale mapping in about a day. by making planetary-scale monitoring accessible to groups lacking specialized engineering teams, the platform aims to accelerate ai-driven solutions for urgent issues like deforestation and disaster response.