Bright key facts / Experimental
An Earth model runs above the Earth.
A compressed NASA–IBM Prithvi geospatial model ran on the Kanyini satellite and the ISS IMAGIN-e payload in flood and cloud detection demonstrations.
- AI’s role
- The model performed inference onboard to identify flood and cloud features before full data return.
- Documented result
- NASA reports demonstrations on two orbital platforms. Prithvi was trained on 13 years of Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data; the flight result is currently described in a preprint.
- Important limitation
- The result is a preprint.