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The Embed2Scale project is pleased to support the next Geo-Embeddings Sprint, taking place on 27–28 October 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland. Hosted by IBM and organised together with Cloud-Native Geospatial (CNG), Clark University, and Planet, the event will bring together leading researchers, foundation model developers, data providers, and Earth Observation (EO) practitioners to advance the future of geospatial AI.  The second Geo-Embeddings Sprint builds…

At the CVPR EarthVision Workshop 2026, and soon at IGARSS 2026, the Embed2Scale consortium presented NeuCo‑Bench, a model‑agnostic framework designed to address the often fragmented benchmarking landscape of Geospatial Foundation Models and other embedding approaches in Earth Observation (EO). While the EO community increasingly adopts embedding‑based methods for their efficiency and versatility, the lack of…

In late May, members of the Embed2Scale consortium from IBM Research and UZH attended the ESA–NASA Workshop on Foundation Models for Earth Observation. While foundation models were naturally central to the agenda, one theme surfaced repeatedly across talks, discussions, and hallway conversations: geospatial embeddings have become a major topic in the EO community. What stood…

The High‑Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing (HDCRS) Summer School 2026 will feature a full workshop day led by Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) on 11 June 2026, focusing on Geospatial Foundation Models and hands‑on experimentation with TerraMind for downstream Earth observation tasks.   The summer school is organised by the High‑Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote…

Embed2Scale partners will take part in CVPR EarthVision 2026 this June in Denver, USA. The event brings together the Earth observation, computer vision, and machine learning communities to advance scalable and trustworthy analysis of large‑scale geospatial data for environmental and societal applications. Last year, Embed2Scale organised the Embed2Scale Data Challenge at CVPR EarthVision. This year,…

After a successful first edition in 2025, Embed2Scale will again take part in the second ESA/NASA EO Foundation Models Workshop. The event brings together the Earth observation and AI foundation model communities to advance scalable, trustworthy, and operational AI systems for EO, with this year’s programme focusing on benchmarking, multimodal modelling, efficient adaptation, and real‑world…

Embed2Scale will be represented at IGARSS 2026 with a tutorial titled “A Hands-On Introduction to Benchmarking Neural Compression and Representation Learning for Earth Observation”, held on Sunday, 9 August 2026, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m ET. The tutorial introduces NeuCo-Bench, an open benchmarking framework developed within Embed2Scale to evaluate neural compression and representation learning…

The Embed2Scale project has released TerraCodec, an open-source family of neural compression models designed for optical Earth observation data. Earth observation satellites continuously produce massive streams of multispectral and temporal imagery, creating growing challenges for storage, transmission, and large-scale analysis. TerraCodec addresses these challenges using neural compression models that encode multispectral imagery into compact latent…

The Embed2Scale consortium met in Ljubljana on 3 and 4 March for a two‑day general assembly hosted by project partner Sinergise, bringing partners together as the project moves through its third and final year. Across the meeting, partners reviewed recent progress and aligned on the next steps for the months ahead. Advisory Board members joined…