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Dans l’actualité | Planet
Queryable Earth: combining satellite imagery and next-gen AI
Back in 2018, Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall asked the audience during his TED talk: what if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? It wasn’t science fiction. Using artificial intelligence (AI)…
Dans l’actualité | The Nature Conservancy
The value of words + pictures
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under the heading: “nature-based tourism.”
Dans l’actualité | ODI Open Data Institute
ODI and Microsoft supporting the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay
Uruguay 2100 has been selected as the winner of the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay, a challenge supported by Microsoft and the Open Data Institute.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft on the Issues
Closing the Climate Data Divide in the Global South
World and business leaders are facing pressing climate issues as they gather in Egypt for COP27 – and are focused on ways to come together on action and implementation. At Microsoft, we see these days ahead as an opportunity to…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft on the Issues
Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap: Helping businesses move from pledges to progress
Today Microsoft is publishing a new report. Thousands of companies around the world have issued climate pledges – but globally, we don’t currently have the workforce with the necessary skills to move from pledges to progress.
Dans l’actualité | Planet
This Atlas Wants to Map Every Solar and Wind Source in Your Country
Instead of time-consuming human surveys, these living maps are made by AI and satellites to help planners get things done.
Dans l’actualité | Geekwire
How much solar and wind power is out there? A Microsoft effort using satellites, AI aims to find out
In the race to curb climate change, solar panels and wind turbines are being installed across the planet — but no one knows exactly where and how much renewable power is out there. So Microsoft is teaming up with The…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft News Center
Microsoft, Planet and The Nature Conservancy launch the Global Renewables Watch
Microsoft Corp., Planet Labs PBC and The Nature Conservancy on Thursday announced its plans to launch the Global Renewables Watch (GRW), a first-of-its-kind living atlas intended to map and measure all utility-scale solar and wind installations on Earth using artificial…
Dans l’actualité | The Atlantic
Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Microsoft, the satellite company Maxar, and other public- and private-sector partners are developing a system that automatically identifies marine mammals in satellite images. Called GAIA (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Animals), the project aims…