NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools
AI AND ML
Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite
IBM and NASA have got together again and released an open source AI model of the Moon that could be used to make new discoveries about Earth’s natural satellite.
The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model has been trained on an extensive lunar observation dataset curated by researchers at the two organizations, and is available now on Hugging Face.
It is claimed as the first AI model to integrate observations captured in a range of modalities (data formats), and at different viewing angles and spatial scales. Instead of sifting through maps and images by hand or using low resolution machine learning models, scientists can use this to analyze geographic features, the pair say.
In particular, NASA and IBM hope researchers will be able to discover previously unidentified lunar ice...
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