Google Earth's expanded AI features make it easier to ask it questions

"Google Earth now uses Gemini to connect various Earth AI models - such as weather forecasts, satellite imagery, and population maps - when providing an answer to a user's chat query. This is an expansion of Google's geospatial reasoning framework which is available to those in Google's trusted testers program. Testers can also now combine their own data with Google's Earth AI models on imagery, population, and the environment."

"Google is expanding its AI features within Google Earth. It's now easier to chat with Google Earth AI models, introduced in July, to identify infrastructure vulnerable to an oncoming storm, for example, or spot communities at risk of dust storms during a drought. Google Earth now uses Gemini to connect various Earth AI models - such as weather forecasts, satellite imagery, and population maps - when providing an answer to a user's chat query."

"Google says the integrated chat, which it began piloting last year, helps users find objects and patterns in satellite imagery. As an example, the company says users could have Google Earth monitor drinking water supplies by asking it to "find algae blooms." Google AI Pro and Ultra users in the US will be able to access this Gemini chat feature in Google Earth with higher, but yet unspecified, limits."

Google Earth adds Gemini-powered chat to combine weather forecasts, satellite imagery, and population maps when answering user queries. The integrated capability enables identification of infrastructure vulnerable to storms and detection of communities at risk of dust storms during drought. Trusted testers can use an expanded geospatial reasoning framework and merge their own data with Google’s Earth AI models covering imagery, population, and environmental indicators. The chat can help find objects and patterns in satellite imagery, such as monitoring drinking water by asking it to "find algae blooms." Gemini chat access will roll out to US professional plans and higher-tier AI users with increased limits.

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