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Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award
NASA’s science efforts aim to empower scientists with the tools to perform research into our planet and universe. To this end, a collaborative effort between NASA and IBM created an AI geospatial foundation model, which was released as an open-source application in 2024.
Trained on vast amounts of NASA Earth science data, the foundation model can be adapted for Earth science applications such as flood, burn scar, and cropland studies. Tailoring the model for a specific task takes far less data than the original training set, providing an easy path for researchers to perform AI-powered studies.
For their groundbreaking work on this project, the development team behind the foundation model has received the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award. Their success with the model showcases their commitment to advancing AI and scientific research and will inspire progress in this field for years to come.
The team members from NASA’s Marshall Space Fight Center /IMPACT (Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team) are:
Rahul Ramachandran
Manil Maskey
Elizabeth Fancher
The team members from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are:
Sujit Roy
Ankur Kumar
Christopher Phillips
Iksha Gurung
Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian
The team members from IBM are:
Ranjini Bangalore
Juan Bernabe-Moreno
Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira
Linsong Chu
Blair Edwards
Paolo Fraccaro
Carlos Gomes
Raghu Ganti
Adnan Hoque
Johannes Jakubik
Levente Klein
Devyani Lambhate
Gabby Nyirjesy
Naomi Simumba
Johannes Schmude
Mudhakar Srivatsa
Harini Srinivasan
Daniela Szwarcman
Rob Parkin
Kommy Weldemariam
Campbell Watson
Bianca Zadrozny
The team members from Clark University are:
Hamed Alemohammad
Michael Cecil
Steve Li
Sam Khallaghi
Denys Godwin
Maryam Ahmadi
Fatemeh Kordi
To learn more about the NASA projects improving accessible science discovery for the benefit of all, visit the Open Science at NASA page.
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