🌐 Cracking open Google’s geospatial black box

PLUS: Building AI that works across different disaster zones and more.

May 13

7

🌐 Harmonising nighttime light data across decades

PLUS: Google's new embeddings, a unified world model for Earth observation, and more.

May 6

2

April 2026

🌐 A better way of thinking about urban sprawl

PLUS: Teaching AI about satellite images, how to actually use embeddings, and more.

Apr 29

5

🌐 Shrinking map tiles without losing the details

PLUS: Averaging satellite images is a moral quandary, stopping AI from hallucinating satellite maps, and more.

Apr 22

4

🌐 A billion-scale model for understanding radar images

PLUS: A smarter way to measure water scarcity, and a new geospatial data from Meta

Apr 15

4

🌐 Do AI models actually understand GPS coordinates?

PLUS: Tracking land use changes with foundation models, and more.

Apr 8

4

1

🌐 A much better way to map human development

PLUS: Predicting flood damage without training models from scratch

Apr 1

12

March 2026

🌐 Earthquakes have a huge carbon footprint

PLUS: Giving drones a sense of depth, the economics of good design and more.

Mar 25

6

🌐 We’re running out of room for data centres

PLUS: Taming foundation models, why chatbots make terrible drivers, and more.

Mar 18

8

🌐 Knowing when to doubt the data

PLUS: Sharpening images with dead leaves, landslide detection and more.

Mar 11

7

1

February 2026

🌐 A new high-resolution lens on US migration

PLUS: New 3D maps of cities, solar forecasting and more.

Feb 18

3

🌐 Why we’re miscalculating urban poverty

PLUS: Improving flood maps with heavy-duty AI, predicting wildfires and more

Feb 11

8

1