🌏🔎 Roadmap of EarthEmbeddingExplorer and EarthEmbeddings

This issue tracks the development progress, bug fixes, and upcoming feature releases for EarthEmbeddingExplorer. The project is currently in Beta, and this roadmap serves as the primary guide toward a stable v1.0.0 release.

Feel free to leave a comment to suggest new features or contribute to the project!

2025.11.29

• [Project Kick-off!]

2025.12.05

• [Feature] Added support for SigLIP model and text-based retrieval.
• [Feature] Deployed the initial demo on ModelScope Studio.
• [Doc] Added an introductory tutorial.

2025.12.21

• [Feature] Added top-5 matched image previews.
• [Feature] Added support for FarSLIP and SatCLIP models.
• [Feature] Added support for image-based and location-based retrieval.
• [Feature] Enabled coordinate input via map clicks.
• [Doc] Added software architecture diagrams and usage examples.
• [News!] EarthExplorer won 1st place in the ModelScope AI + Research Open Source Challenge!

2026.01.06

• [Feature] Deployed on Hugging Face Spaces and ModelScope Studio.
• [Improvement] Integrated map-click functionality into image and location search.
• [Improvement] Refactored code for better style and readability.

2026.01.25

• [Feature] Renamed project to EarthEmbeddingExplorer to avoid naming conflicts with the NASA EarthExplorer platform.
• [Feature] Added preview support for 250k uniformly sampled datasets.
• [Feature] Added DINOv2-Large model for image-to-image retrieval.
• [Dataset] Released the EarthEmbeddings dataset on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
• [Improvement] Added support for loading models and datasets via configuration files.

2026.02.07 (Planned)

• [Dataset] Complete the missing embedding datasets for the 250k edition.
• [Fix] Convert and release datasets in GeoParquet format.
• [Fix] Implement multi-spectral band input support for SatCLIP.
• [Dataset] Contribute EarthEmbeddings to the TorchGeo library.
• [Research] Benchmark and visualize retrieval performance across different modalities and model architectures.
• [Improvement] Further code style optimizations.

2026.02.14

• [Feature] Deploy the web app on HF ZeroGPU.

• [Release] Formal release of tag v1.0.0.

• [Feature] Support selecting time slot before searching.
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Acknowledgments

Sincere thanks to my labmates Weijie Wu and Bingyue Wu for their significant contributions to this repository.

I am also grateful for the feedback and suggestions from the community, specifically Konstantin Klemmer, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Zhenshi Li, and Adam J. Stewart, for their contributions to open-source models, datasets, and insightful discussions.

Yijie Zheng