Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
IBM
geospatialfamily

Prithvi-EO-2.0

IBM and NASA Earth observation foundation model; 600M-TL is 8% above Prithvi 1.0 on GEO-Bench and beats six other GFMs; leads EO-specific categories on GEO-Bench-2.

Prithvi-EO-2.0 architecture diagram: satellite image patches through encoder and decoder.
Levelfamily
Classgeospatial
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released3 Dec 2024
Opennessopen source
Runs onembedded GPU, single datacentre GPU
Statusactive

Lineage

successorfinetune
Prithvi-EO 1.0 to Prithvi-EO-2.0: successor, high confidencePrithvi-EO-2.0 to Granite-Geospatial-Ocean: finetune, low confidencePrithvi-EO 1.0Prithvi-EO 1.0IBM, 2023Prithvi-EO-2.0Prithvi-EO-2.0IBM, Dec 2024Granite-Geospatial-OceanGranite-Geospatial-OceanIBM
IBMPrithvi-EO 1.0 is the parent (successor)high confidencenotes
IBMGranite-Geospatial-Ocean is a child (finetune)low confidencenotes
IBMPrithvi-EO-2.0 100M-TL belongs to this familygeospatial3 Dec 2024100M
IBMPrithvi-EO-2.0 300M belongs to this familygeospatial3 Dec 2024300M
IBMPrithvi-EO-2.0 600M belongs to this familygeospatial3 Dec 2024600M
IBMPrithvi-EO-2.0 TINY-TL belongs to this familygeospatial3 Dec 20245M
IBMPrithvi-EO-2.0-600M-TL belongs to this familygeospatial3 Dec 2024600M
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 3 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
IBM, NASA, Julich (Forschungszentrum Julich)
Family
not in the notes
Released
3 Dec 2024 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer MAE ViT, multi-temporal; TL = temporal + location embeddings
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
tiny-TL 5M, 100M-TL, 300M(-TL), 600M(-TL)
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
image
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open source
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
embedded GPU, single datacentre GPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Prithvi-EO-2.0: A Versatile Multi-Temporal Foundation Model for Earth Observation Applications arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02732v2
  2. ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-600M , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-600M
  3. Leading the way in open Earth observation AI research.ibm.com https://research.ibm.com/blog/earth-observation-leadership
  4. github.com/NASA-IMPACT/Prithvi-EO-2.0 https://github.com/NASA-IMPACT/Prithvi-EO-2.0

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Prithvi-EO-2.0", https://aurion.semai.id/models/ibm-prithvi-eo-2-0/, records of October 2026.