Clay Foundation Model
Open-source self-supervised vision foundation model for Earth observation by Clay Foundation (non-profit), a Masked Autoencoder ViT pretrained on multimodal satellite imagery (Sentinel-1/2, Landsat 8-9, NAIP, MODIS, LINZ DEM) with location/time embeddings, supporting classification, segmentation, change detection, similarity search, and few-shot downstream geospatial tasks (Apache 2.0, v1.5 2024-2025)
- Repository
- github.com/clay-foundation/model
Source attribution
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/clay-foundation/model
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