AI Reports · Google · 2026-10-06 · Research paper
Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health
Google Earth AI's Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM) addresses data gaps and reporting lags in epidemiological workflows. Five partner-driven case studies illustrate how planetary geospatial foundation models can be applied to public health. The model compresses privacy-preserving search trends, human mobility, built-environment density and environmental factors into location embeddings that can be plugged into existing models without task-specific fine-tuning.