Introducing ESA’s Earth Virtual Expert

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released Earth Virtual Expert (EVE), a platform powered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), to make Earth observation information more accessible and easier to understand. Built on trusted scientific sources and created to answer questions, EVE brings complex research, data and expertise closer to researchers, policymakers, journalists and the wider public.

EVE is a platform that provides information in a question-and-answer format, making it accessible for all levels of expertise. Users can ask questions such as: How has vegetation in southern Europe changed over the past decade? or how do satellites help monitor greenhouse gas emissions?

Earth observation data comes in many forms, including scientific papers, reports, technical documentation, models and repositories. Finding, comparing and understanding this information can be difficult, often requiring specialist expertise. This limits its accessibility to policymakers and the wider public.

To help bridge this gap, ESA Φ-lab partnered up with Pi School – an AI research and innovation company – as well as with two private companies: French-based AI company Mistral and Imperative Space, a multi-disciplinary company that works in innovation, communications and education for the space sector. Together they developed EVE, a large language model (LLM), which summarises, translates and presents huge amounts of data in accessible ways.

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