GOOGLE EARTH AI
Built on years of modeling the world and Gemini’s advanced reasoning, Earth AI is helping enterprises, nonprofits, and cities with everything from environmental monitoring to disaster response.
Earth AI models power features used by billions, and provide actionable insights in Google Earth, Google Maps Platform, and Google Cloud.
Our partners have been using Earth AI models to help with critical business decision making for multiple years. These featured partners are using the latest Earth AI models and datasets.
See how Google Earth AI unites geospatial models with Gemini-powered reasoning. Learn how partners like Planet, Airbus, Deloitte, Boston Children's Hospital, and GiveDirectly use Earth AI to move from manual image analysis to instant, high-value insights. The platform accelerates analysis, enhances disaster preparedness, and drives better public health and business decisions worldwide.
Leading satellite providers like Planet Labs, and Airbus leverage Google's Remote Sensing Foundation Models (RSFM) as part of a trusted tester program. This collaboration accelerates their AI development, enabling instantaneous object detection and image search using natural language. Discover how Imagery models unlock unparalleled planetary monitoring, massive scale change detection, and accelerated map-making capabilities.
Discover how Google Earth AI and its foundation models power partners like WPP, Deloitte, and Boston Children's Hospital. Learn how they use Earth AI to tackle multi-dimensional problems, from marketing and urban planning to predicting public health risks and targeting life-saving interventions. Google Earth AI gives decision-makers actionable insights at an unprecedented scale and speed.
See how Google Earth AI enables a faster, more effective response. Bellwether, an X moonshot, is using Earth AI to provide insurance broker McGill and Partners predictive analysis of property damage before a storm strikes, which helps their clients pay claims faster so homeowners can start rebuilding sooner — saving them time, money and stress. Humanitarian partner GiveDirectly uses the Google Flood Hub for anticipatory cash assistance before floods hit.
To deliver actionable, location-aware intelligence, Vertex AI is designed for native grounding using Google Maps' unique, high-fidelity data. This capability instantly contextualizes your AI applications and agents with information on over 250 million places, providing the local and geospatial insights necessary for accurate modeling, resilient operations, and informed decision-making in the physical world.
Unifying remote sensing data with cutting-edge AI for diverse geospatial analysis and forecasting, from land use to object detection.
Specialized AI models enable finding objects, classifying scenes or monitoring changes across Earth's observation imagery. Query the Earth with natural language and significantly accelerate remote sensing workflows, such as identifying where harmful algae is blooming in order to monitor drinking water supply, giving authorities time to issue warnings or shut down water utilities.
AlphaEarth Foundations integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified representation, empowering users to perform faster, more accurate geospatial analyses like change detection, map segmentation and classification.
Gemini capabilities in Google Earth now integrate new Earth AI models, allowing users to instantly find objects and discover patterns across satellite imagery. This experimental feature streamlines environmental monitoring—such as spotting dried rivers or algae blooms—for Professional and Professional Advanced users in the US.
Create, analyze, and collaborate with Google's unique imagery and global knowledge, cloud infrastructure, and community-scale generative building and solar designs. Make faster, informed decisions in early-stage projects—no GIS training required.
ForestCast, the first deep learning benchmark for proactive deforestation risk forecasting, is a model that utilizes pure satellite data to predict future forest loss accurately and at scale, overcoming the limitations of older methods that relied on inconsistent, region-specific input maps. This marks a fundamental shift from monitoring past losses to actively predicting and preventing future environmental threats.
Natural Forests of the World 2020, an AI-powered baseline map for deforestation and degradation monitoring. This critical resource achieves best-in-class accuracy at 10-meter resolution in distinguishing natural forests from other tree cover, aiding companies (e.g., for EUDR compliance), governments, and conservation groups worldwide.
This open dataset maps 1.8 billion buildings in the Global South and includes changes in development from the years 2016-2023. It uses AI to super-resolve and extract building footprints and heights from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. For example, it's allowed us to greatly expand coverage of our Solar API.
Harnessing AI to deliver actionable, high-resolution weather and climate insights, from real-time forecasts to disaster response and policy impact.
Our AI flood forecast provides reliable riverine flood warnings up to seven days. Flood Hub currently covers river basins in over 100 countries worldwide, providing critical flood forecasting to a population of 700M people.
WeatherNext is an AI-powered ensemble forecasting model for global weather prediction. It utilizes a novel Functional Generative Network architecture, which enables it to generate forecasts 8x faster and with resolution up to 1-hour. This state-of-the-art model delivers more accurate global weather predictions - including for extreme weather events - aiding enterprises, governments, and researchers worldwide.
Weather Lab features our latest experimental AI-based tropical cyclone model, based on stochastic neural networks. This model can predict a cyclone’s formation, track, intensity, size and shape — generating 50 possible scenarios, up to 15 days ahead.
Google’s novel tools aimed at helping us better understand and protect Earth's biosphere include a benchmark dataset for high-resolution deforestation risk prediction, a new approach for species range mapping at unprecedented scale, and Perch 2.0, a state-of-the-art bioacoustics model for automated ecosystem health monitoring and identifying endangered species.
NeuralGCM is a hybrid atmospheric model combining traditional physics with machine learning for faster, accurate weather simulations. By using physical laws for large-scale dynamics and ML for small-scale phenomena, it produces high-quality forecasts at a fraction of the cost. This open-source model significantly increases accessibility for researchers.
Powering air quality information for millions of users on Google Search and Maps, our advanced Air Quality API uses AI to fuse satellite, weather, and traffic data, delivering highly accurate, real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) forecasts at a 500-meter global resolution.
Our Pollen API can be used to help people limit the risks of exposure to allergenic pollen and make better informed daily decisions. The pollen model combines AI with physical and biological modeling to generate a 5-day high-resolution forecast across over 65 countries. The model is trained to recognize the exact location and density of specific tree, grass and weed species to predict the Universal Pollen Index (UPI).
We use satellite imagery and ML to detect and track wildfires, making information available via Google Search and Maps, informing affected communities and helping fire authorities take action, and developing a simulator to generate data in a range of wildfire scenarios.
Unifying search trends, demographics, business, mobility and geospatial data with AI to understand the complex interplay of populations and places.
Measles outbreaks are rising, but routine vaccination data are often delayed and too coarse to pinpoint local gaps. Researchers at Harvard, Mount Sinai, and Boston Children’s Hospital combined survey data with Google’s Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM) to produce “superresolution” estimates of MMR coverage among young children—at much finer geographic scales than standard reporting, down to the ZIP-code level—revealing clusters of undervaccination that align with recent outbreaks and helping public health teams prioritize locally targeted outreach and prevention efforts.
Traffic Simulation API leverages AI advancements in measurement, simulation, and optimization to provide transportation agencies with powerful tools for baseline simulation of city networks, allowing them to modify and test the network-wide impact of proposed infrastructure changes, as well as temporary disruptions such as lane or road closures due to maintenance, mass events, or crashes. It uses high-fidelity modeling to provide granular results on vehicle counts and average speeds, giving users detailed data on the cascading effects across the entire road network to de-risk investments.
Gain unique insights into population characteristics and their environmental interplay. Population Dynamics Foundations for Places Insights reveals the bigger picture: how humans thrive, influenced by their surroundings, and how these trends and patterns evolve over time.
Population Dynamics Foundations distills data about human behavior and our interactions with the environment into concise, analysis-ready embeddings. Now expanded to include more countries and capture changes over time, Population Dynamics Foundations insights are enhancing applications including disease modeling, mapping vulnerable communities and location-based marketing.
Mobility AI leverages AI advancements in measurement, simulation, and optimization to provide transportation agencies with powerful tools for data-driven policy making, traffic management, and continuous monitoring of urban transportation systems. Powering Roads Management Insights on Google Maps Platform.
Geospatial Reasoning is making it possible to tackle multimodal Earth AI challenges. Gemini-powered agents enable developers, data analysts, and scientists to integrate Google’s advanced Earth AI models with their own models and datasets. Now you can make natural language queries about the physical world and get deep, actionable insights, grounded in real-world understanding.
When major climate events strike, Google products like Search and Maps help billions of people make critical decisions to stay safe.
MetNet, an AI nowcasting model, predicts precipitation with high accuracy via satellite data. This fills gaps in radar coverage, providing better rain predictions on Google Search.
With Immersive View, you’re able to experience what a neighborhood, landmark, restaurant or popular venue is like — and even feel like you’re right there before you ever leave the house. So whether you’re traveling somewhere new or scoping out hidden local gems, Immersive View helps you make the most informed decisions before you go.
People turn to Google Search and Maps in times of crises, to find early warnings of extreme weather events. Crisis notification cards appear on Google Maps for those near the impacted area, directing to a hurricane forecast of the storm’s trajectory along with information about what time it’s likely to hit certain areas.
¹To estimate aggregate enabled emissions reductions, we first estimated annual reductions for the products individually (Google Earth Pro, Solar API, fuel-efficient routing, and Green Light) and then combined the totals. For details about the individual calculation methodologies, refer to Google’s 2025 Environmental Report. For equivalencies, we used the "Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, November 2024, accessed October 2025.