Finalist
Rewild Earth
Imagine a planet you can talk to.
Core trick
Nearest-neighbour search over AlphaEarth 64-dimensional pixel embeddings, with an LLM translating plain-language queries into that search.
Tags
Description
Imagine a planet you can talk to.
Rewilding Earth is a "search the Earth" tool. You ask in plain language: "where can I find kelp forests like Monterey Bay?" and it returns ecologically similar places anywhere on the planet, using satellite imagery. The engine runs nearest-neighbor retrieval over AlphaEarth satellite embeddings (Google DeepMind's 64-dimensional fingerprint of every 10-meter pixel of Earth). The problem: those embeddings are the richest model of Earth we have, but querying them today means writing heavy geospatial GIS code (there's no natural-language layer, not even a SQL) so only a handful of specialists can use them. We build that missing layer, turning a planetary-scale dataset into something anyone can ask a question of, with verification so the answers are trustworthy rather than just plausible.