Read the ground before you walk it. Satellite imagery, decoded by AI.
A step-by-step course that teaches you to use Google Earth and AI tools together to study neighborhoods, properties, and local markets from above — the same kind of groundwork commercial researchers and site scouts do, broken into a repeatable workflow anyone can follow.
Get Instant Access →Most local research still happens on foot, with a clipboard, and a lot of guessing.
Understanding a neighborhood — where it's growing, where it's underused, what's changed over the past year — usually means driving around or paying for reports that go stale the moment they're published. Meanwhile, satellite imagery of almost anywhere on earth is sitting in Google Earth for free, mostly unread.
Scouting takes hours
Driving neighborhoods to spot vacant lots, new construction, or foot-traffic patterns is slow and easy to get wrong.
Reports go out of date
Commercial data reports are expensive and often reflect conditions from months earlier, not what's on the ground now.
Imagery goes unread
Free satellite and aerial imagery updates constantly — almost nobody has a system for actually reading it for business signal.
A repeatable route from raw imagery to a usable local business brief.
Google Earth AI Goldmine walks you through a five-stop route. Each stop builds a skill you can reuse on any neighborhood, property type, or market you're asked to look into.
Set up your aerial workspace
Configure Google Earth, historical imagery layers, and the AI tools that turn raw pixels into readable notes — no GIS background required.
Learn to read a site from above
Identify parking patterns, construction activity, land use, and change-over-time signals that indicate what's happening in an area.
Let AI summarize what you're seeing
Use AI prompting techniques to describe imagery, flag anomalies, and compare a location across different dates in minutes instead of hours.
Turn findings into a local brief
Package your observations into a clear, client-ready document that explains what a location looks like now and how it has changed.
Build a workflow you can reuse
Turn the whole process into a checklist so you can apply it to a new neighborhood, property, or market whenever it's needed.
Built for people who research locations as part of their work.
This is for you if
- ✓ You research local markets, properties, or neighborhoods for your own projects or clients.
- ✓ You're comfortable using web-based tools and following a structured, step-by-step process.
- ✓ You want a repeatable method rather than a one-off report.
- ✓ You're curious about applying AI to imagery and mapping tasks.
This isn't for you if
- ✕ You're looking for a licensed GIS or surveying credential — this is a practical skills course, not a certification.
- ✕ You want something fully automated with no reading or setup on your part.
- ✕ You're not willing to spend time practicing the workflow on real locations.
Before you start
Do I need any mapping or GIS experience?
No. The course starts from the basics of Google Earth and builds up the AI-assisted workflow step by step.
What tools do I need?
A computer with internet access and a Google account. All the imagery tools used in the course are freely accessible.
Is this a certification program?
No. This is a practical, skills-based course focused on teaching you a repeatable research workflow — it does not confer any professional license or certification.
How is the course delivered?
It's a digital, self-paced course you access immediately after enrolling. You can move through the waypoints at your own speed.
Who do I contact with questions?
Support, our privacy policy, and this course's disclaimer are all available at our information page.
Learn to read a neighborhood the way the imagery already can.
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