# Queryable Earth Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Queryable Earth transforms satellite imagery into a searchable database: use natural language to find and track specific objects and changes globally, leveraging AI and vector embeddings.

This is a fundamental shift in Earth observation: a searchable database of the planet's surface, operating like Google for the physical world. The core technology leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like SkyCLIP and RemoteCLIP, converting both satellite images and natural language queries into vector embeddings for similarity search. Planet's fleet, which images the entire Earth nearly every day, supplies the massive data volume (30 terabytes daily) for this index. The system allows users to ask complex questions—for example, 'How many houses are in Pakistan?' or 'Show me all deforestation in the Amazon between this week and last week.' This capability moves beyond traditional geospatial analysis, delivering actionable insights and massive-scale change detection via simple text input.

- Official technology site: https://www.planet.com/pulse/queryable-earth-combining-satellite-imagery-and-next-generation-ai/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Chatting with satellite images: (how I built) SatGPT](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_uAL8DrtfGaU)

It uses OpemAI function calls, LangChain, to search and visualize satellite images. Similar idea as "Queryable Earth" demo. But I built it all on my weekends and you can actually run it from my GitHub. :) It is still prerelease but I'm building in the open with some others. I'll be discussing in ~1 week for Space Data Hackers and would love to bring a condensed version of the talk to Tinkerers! PS - This one happens to land on my birthday. Just putting that out there. :P

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle - July Meetup — 2023-07-27 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_uAL8DrtfGaU

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