OlmoEarth: Stable Latent Image Modeling for Multimodal Earth Observation
Authors
Henry Herzog
Favyen Bastani
Yawen Zhang
Gabriel Tseng
Joseph Redmon
Hadrien Sablon
Ryan Park
Jacob Morrison
Alexandra Buraczynski
Karen Farley
Joshua Hansen
Andrew Howe
Patrick Alan Johnson
Mark Otterlee
Ted Schmitt
Hunter Pitelka
Stephen Daspit
Rachel Ratner
Christopher Wilhelm
Sebastian Wood
Mike Jacobi
Hannah Kerner
Evan Shelhamer
Ali Farhadi
Ranjay Krishna
Patrick Beukema
Abstract
Earth observation data presents a unique challenge: it is spatial like images, sequential like video or text, and highly multimodal. We present OlmoEarth: a multimodal, spatio-temporal foundation model that employs a novel self-supervised learning formulation, masking strategy, and loss all designed for the Earth observation domain. OlmoEarth achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to 12 other foundation models across a variety of research benchmarks and real-world tasks from external partners. When evaluating embeddings OlmoEarth achieves the best performance on 15 out of 24 tasks, and with full fine-tuning it is the best on 19 of 29 tasks. We deploy OlmoEarth as the backbone of an end-to-end platform for data collection, labeling, training, and inference of Earth observation models. The OlmoEarth Platform puts frontier foundation models and powerful data management tools into the hands of non-profits and NGOs working to solve the world's biggest problems. OlmoEarth source code, training data, and pre-trained weights are available at $\href{https://github.com/allenai/olmoearth_pretrain}{\text{https://github.com/allenai/olmoearth_pretrain}}$.
