IBM Research3/3/2026

TerraStackAI: Bringing Earth and space AI to Red Hat and the world

Campbell Watson; Charles Wachira; Rosie Lickorish; Romeo Kienzler; Blair Edwards; Michael Johnston
Across disciplines, advances in computational mathematics are transforming how large-scale scientific data is analyzed, interpreted, and translated into deployable workflows. In the Earth and space monitoring domains, extreme weather risk, disaster response, precision agriculture, and solar activity forecasting rely on turning petabytes of satellite and sensor data into actionable insights. Foundation models like IBM-NASA's Prithvi-EO and IBM-ESA's TerraMind enable unprecedented multimodal...