{"id":211377,"date":"2026-05-07T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/nasas-prithvi-becomes-first-ai-geospatial-foundation-model-in-orbit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:01:02","slug":"nasas-prithvi-becomes-first-ai-geospatial-foundation-model-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/nasas-prithvi-becomes-first-ai-geospatial-foundation-model-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/ai-foundation-model-in-orbit\/\">NASA&#8217;s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/ai-foundation-model-in-orbit\/\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/ai-foundation-model-in-orbit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 10:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"science.nasa.gov\">science.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A team of researchers from Adelaide University and the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center deployed NASA and IBM\u2019s Prithvi Geospatial AI foundation model on two in-orbit platforms: Kanyini satellite and IMAGIN-e payload aboard the International Space Station, making it the first geospatial foundation model to be deployed in orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Prithvi, trained on 13 years&#8217; worth of global geospatial data from NASA and ESA satellites, can facilitate tasks like flood and disaster monitoring.<\/li>\n<li>The model\u2019s performance for flood and cloud detection was tested across different orbiting platforms, with promising results shared in a preprint article.<\/li>\n<li>The open-source nature of Prithvi saved researchers significant time and effort, exemplifying the benefits of making AI models available for collaborative advancements.<\/li>\n<li>Foundation models like Prithvi, which are trained on vast amounts of unlabeled data, can be fine-tuned for specific tasks with less data, offering flexibility for diverse Earth observation applications.<\/li>\n<li>The deployment showcases the potential for foundation models to revolutionize data analysis and interaction with instruments on satellites. NASA and IBM envision a future where operators can interact with satellites using natural language.<\/li>\n<li>NASA continues to develop and release open-source foundation models, including a heliophysics model called Surya, and plans to expand to other scientific fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/ai-foundation-model-in-orbit\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07 10:23:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/content\/dam\/science\/esd\/eo\/images\/imagerecords\/145000\/145308\/iss058e028096_lrg.jpg\/jcr:content\/renditions\/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211379,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211377\/revisions\/211379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}