this is just PR newswire hype, calling it foundation model is a stretch. People have been training nets on satellite imagery for a long time, I don't even see a

this is just PR newswire hype, calling it foundation model is a stretch. People have been training nets on satellite imagery for a long time, I don't even see anything here that would need a foundation model, most of them are vanilla CNNs that work relatively well, the problem has mainly been the data pipeline of different gsds and nadir of images which makes layering difficult.