Google Earth is getting an AI-powered chatbot to help map the climate crisis

Google has come Finding a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems will be affected. If you want to know what’s stressing the environment in your neck of the woods, all you have to do is ask.

Google Earth AI, a combination of Google Earth and Gemini AI systems, was introduced in July. Part of that effort is an artificial intelligence model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which turns terabytes of satellite data into useful data layers for tracking the history of what’s happening across the planet’s surface.

The combined system allows users to analyze historical landscape data that can reveal significant shifts in climate over the years. For example, users can see water levels rising in flood zones, plot changes in surface temperatures across regions of the planet, or see the effects of clean air policies by studying changes in air pollution.

Now, Google has revealed new capabilities coming to its Earth AI platform. Users can now interact with the AI ​​model by asking it questions as you would a chatbot. One example Google provided was asking Earth AI to “find algae blooms” to help monitor water supplies. The system will search through satellite images and their collected data sets to provide a list of results.

Chatbot-style queries in action.

Courtesy of Google