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AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embedding (Earth Engine)

Annual 64-dimensional satellite embedding dataset produced by Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations model, 10 m global, for land cover, change detection and similarity search.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: annual 64-dimensional embedding vector per 10 m pixel (bands A00–A63) · unit-length embeddings for clustering, classification and change detection · cross-year similarity via dot product or angle between embeddings
Coverage docs-verified: Global: terrestrial land surfaces and shallow waters (intertidal, reef, inland and coastal waterways); poles limited · 2017 to 2024
Resolution docs-verified: 10 m spatial; one embedding per calendar year (annual temporal)
Update frequency docs-verified: Annual layers; Google committed to ongoing production, with at least one year's advance notice of anticipated changes
Formats docs-verified: Earth Engine ImageCollection (GOOGLE/SATELLITE_EMBEDDING/V1/ANNUAL) · Google Cloud Storage bucket gs://alphaearth_foundations
Access docs-verified: Earth Engine account (registration required); free for research, education and nonprofit use per docs; business/commercial terms not stated; dataset licence CC-BY-4.0 with attribution; GCS bucket set to 'provider pays' as of July 2026

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Annual land-cover and surface-condition change screening between years for site or catchment baselines · Similarity search to find analogous habitat or land-cover patches for ecological baseline mapping · Shallow-water, intertidal and inland waterway surface-condition mapping as an analysis layer · Feature layer for classification or regression in land-use and environmental screening models
Audience llm-inferred: GIS analysts · ecologists · hydrologists · environmental consultants · planners

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Coverage at the poles is limited by satellite orbits and instrument coverage · Bands are not independently interpretable; all 64 should be used together · Docs state availability 2017 to 2024; no later layers are described in the provided text · Some large-scale swath and data availability artifacts remain · Images are generated in each area's local UTM projection (UTM_ZONE property), not one common projection · Docs state free use only for research, education and nonprofit; business use terms are not stated

Licence: CC-BY-4.0 (per Earth Engine catalog)
Authentication: Earth Engine account
GitHub stars: Unknown
Last commit: Unknown
Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
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Provenance & evidence

Verified 2026-10-15 via curl (HTTP 200).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (Chris sources (Google Research geospatial))

https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/GOOGLE_SATELLITE_EMBEDDING_V1_ANNUAL