Global and Dense Embeddings of Earth: Major TOM Floating in the Latent Space
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Abstract (arXiv)
With the ever-increasing volumes of the Earth observation data present in the archives of large programmes such as Copernicus, there is a growing need for efficient vector representations of the underlying raw data. The approach of extracting feature representations from pretrained deep neural networks is a powerful approach that can provide semantic abstractions of the input data. However, the way this is done for imagery archives containing geospatial data has not yet been defined. In this work, an extension is proposed to an existing community project, Major TOM, focused on the provision and standardization of open and free AI-ready datasets for Earth observation. Furthermore, four global and dense embedding datasets are released openly and for free along with the publication of this manuscript, resulting in the most comprehensive global open dataset of geospatial visual embeddings in terms of covered Earth's surface.
Key facts. Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 18 of its 32 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Dec 2024.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 9.
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- 2025Lossy Neural Compression for Geospatial Analytics: A Reviewcited by 10
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- 2026Inferring Height from Earth Embeddings: First insights using Google AlphaEarthcited by 4
- 2026TESSERA v2: Scaling Pixel-wise Earth Foundation Modelscited by 3
- 2026How to Embed Matters: Evaluation of EO Embedding Design Choicescited by 1
- 2026EarthEmbeddingExplorer: A Web Application for Cross-Modal Retrieval of Global Satellite Imagescited by 1
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- 2026Planetary Feature Fields are Scalable Earth Representationscited by 0
- 2026Planetary Feature Fields are Scalable Earth Representations29 Sep 2026
- 2026Earth Embeddings4 Aug 2026
- 2026TESSERA v2: Scaling Pixel-wise Earth Foundation Models4 Jul 2026
- 2026Spatial Representation Learning Beyond Pixels: Unifying Raster Data and Vector Semantics for Human-Centric Geospatial Foundation Models1 Jun 2026
- 2026EarthEmbeddingExplorer: A Web Application for Cross-Modal Retrieval of Global Satellite Images31 Mar 2026
- 2026How to Embed Matters: Evaluation of EO Embedding Design Choices11 Mar 2026
- 2026LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Satellite Remote Sensing Data with a Predictive Architecture7 Mar 2026
- 2026Inferring Height from Earth Embeddings: First insights using Google AlphaEarth19 Feb 2026
- 2026Democratizing planetary-scale analysis: An ultra-lightweight Earth embedding database for accurate and flexible global land monitoring16 Jan 2026
- 2025Context-Aware Multimodal Representation Learning for Spatio-Temporally Explicit Environmental Modelling12 Nov 2025
- 2025Geospatial Machine Learning Libraries2 Oct 2025
- 2025Lossy Neural Compression for Geospatial Analytics: A Review3 Mar 2025