This product contains a GeoZarr mosaic of the Spheer FM (Albatross) embedding dataset, from 2017 to 2020.
A mosaic of the Spheer FM Albatross per-pixel embeddings over the Netherlands, covering 2017-2020 at 10 m resolution. The dataset is projected in EPSG:32631 (UTM 31N) — the source tiles' native CRS — and stored as native float32 with no reprojection or quantization. This copy is not officially supported by Spheer.
Spheer FM is deliberately specialised: it is trained on European Sentinel-2 time series, with a focus on nature and biodiversity. Unlike foundation models built primarily around spatial image structure, Spheer FM places temporal land-surface dynamics at the centre of its representation. Its temporal representations also perform strongly on agricultural tasks, including crop classification.
This dataset implements the following Zarr conventions. These Zarr conventions are not mature and may change.
This dataset is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, derived from spheer/spheer-fm-embeddings. Attribution required, non-commercial use only, and derivatives must be shared under the same license.
PCA visualization of the embedding space projected to RGB:
Detailed view showing embedding structure at higher resolution:
Similarity search using a query embedding:
Temporal embedding differences highlighting landscape changes:
The processing pipeline used to create this mosaic is available at: https://github.com/geospatial-jeff/aef-mosaic
Please send any comments, questions, or points of feedback to the geospatial-jeff/aef-mosaic repository.