Public Sector
Satellite Monitoring (Land Cover, Floods, Forests)
Geospatial foundation models and forest baseline maps.
Named Models
Natural Forests of the World 2020 model (MTSViT)Google DeepMind, Google, World Resources Institute (WRI), IIASAReleasedNov 2025Runs onnot in the notesClassgeospatial
Model behind the 10 m Natural Forests of the World 2020 map (92.2% accuracy vs an independent global validation set) for EUDR deforestation baselines; 2026 maps with a Tree Crops class planned.Commercial use: not stated; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not stated
Prithvi-EO-2.0 300MIBM, NASAReleasedDec 2024Runs onsingle datacentre GPUClassgeospatial
Prithvi-EO-2.0 size variant.Commercial use: allowed; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not statedPrithvi-EO-2.0 600MIBM, NASAReleasedDec 2024Runs onsingle datacentre GPUClassgeospatial
Prithvi-EO-2.0 size variant.Commercial use: allowed; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not stated
Oriented object detectors for aerial images (MMRotate)OpenMMLabReleasednot in the notesRuns onnot in the notesClassgeospatialDetectors that predict rotated boxes for ships, planes, vehicles and storage tanks in aerial and satellite images, reproduced with checkpoints on DOTA in OpenMMLab MMRotate.Commercial use: not stated; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not statedWhere this comes from
Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.
Who Runs It
No deployment is recorded for this use case.
Where this comes from
Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.
Candidate Models
DINOv3 SAT-493M ViT-7BMeta, geospatialReleasedAug 2025open weightslast 18 monthsDINOv3 SAT-493M ViT-L (distilled)Meta, geospatialReleasedAug 2025open weightslast 18 monthsTerraMindIBM, European Space Agency (ESA), Julich (Forschungszentrum Julich), geospatialReleasedFeb 2025open weightsruns on edgeTerraCodecIBM, geospatialReleased2025open weightsruns on edgePrithvi-EO-2.0 TINY-TLIBM, NASA, geospatialReleasedDec 2024open weightsruns on edge
RingMo-AgentAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), geospatialReleasedJul 2025last 18 months
SkySense V2Ant Group, geospatialReleasedJul 2025last 18 monthsAlphaEarth Foundations (Satellite Embedding v1 Annual)Google DeepMind, geospatialReleasedJul 2025last 18 monthsRingMoEAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), geospatialReleasedApr 2025last 18 months
MegaLocPolytechnic University of Turin, geospatialReleasedFeb 2025open weightsShowing 10 of 31. All models of this class
Where this comes from
Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.
Links
Sources
- ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-600M , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-600M
- Prithvi-EO-2.0: A Versatile Multi-Temporal Foundation Model for Earth Observation Applications arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02732v2
- research.google/blog/separating-natural-forests-from-other-tr... https://research.google/blog/separating-natural-forests-from-other-tree-cover-with-ai-for-deforestation-free-supply-chains/
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Satellite Monitoring (Land Cover, Floods, Forests)", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/pub-satellite-monitoring/, records of October 2026.