Award: The American Geophysical Union’s 2025 Open Science Recognition Prize, awarded to a person or team for outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its impact globally.
Awarded to: The Prithvi Geospatial Foundation Model team, for their work on the open-access foundation model, trained on data from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites. This model transforms Earth observation by applying artificial intelligence to geospatial analysis, giving researchers a powerful new tool that lets them focus on seeking answers to their specific scientific questions rather than building task-specific models. Prithvi Geospatial is customizable for many applications including disaster response, land use and crop mapping, and ecosystem monitoring.
This work is a joint effort funded by NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer. The group is made up of the IMPACT AI team, lead by Dr. Rahul Ramachandran at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the Universities Space Research Association; IBM Research; Forschungszentrum Jülich; the University of Alabama in Huntsville; Arizona State University in Phoenix; Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Oregon State University in Corvallis; University of California Berkeley; and Bo …