Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis

📄 Tech Report: https://allenai.org/papers/olmoearth | 📊 Documentation: https://docs.olmoearth.allenai.org/embeddings | 💻 Learn more about OlmoEarth: https://allenai.org/olmoearth

OlmoEarth Studio, our platform for building Earth observation models, now lets you compute and export embedding vectors—compact numerical representations of Earth-observation data produced by our open source OlmoEarth foundation models. The source code and model weights are publicly available alongside the research paper, so the community can inspect exactly how these embeddings are generated.

Embeddings are a fast, cost-effective entry point for leveraging OlmoEarth: they support a wide range of downstream tasks, from similarity search to segmentation to unsupervised exploration. Locations with similar surface characteristics end up with similar vectors; locations that differ land far apart. OlmoEarth embeddings have shown strong performance in our own benchmarking and in independent evaluations. The exported Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) are lightweight and easy to share. Choose your area of interest, time range, encoder variant, resolution, and imagery sources via the Studio UI or API, and get back a COG you can use however you like. If your application requires higher performance, Studio also supports supervised fine-tuning (SFT).

Custom-computed embeddings are now available for users of OlmoEarth Studio. Reach out if you're interested in gaining access. Instructions for using the publicly available OlmoEarth models to compute your own embeddings are available here.

Computing embeddings in Studio

Global structure in OlmoEarth embeddings from seasonal Sentinel-2 imagery across 1.1M samples. Colors indicate 15 k-means clusters in a PCA-reduced embedding space.

Computing embeddings follows the same workflow as any other prediction in Studio. First configure a model and run it, and then download the results. Several parameters tailor the output: