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Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Stories
Protecting the Amazon from deforestation with Microsoft AI
Project Guacamaya is fighting deforestation by monitoring the Amazon rainforest with Microsoft AI. Researchers are studying daily satellite images, observing animal behavior with hidden cameras, and listening to forest sounds with tiny microphones. AI processes this data faster than ever…
Dans l’actualité | Science
To reduce wildlife deaths caused by fences, scientists are turning to AI
As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western United States, enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain livestock, the barbed and woven wire fences also hinder wildlife such as…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating AI opportunity and climate solutions in Africa
Microsoft firmly believes that AI has tremendous potential to accelerate solutions to the various challenges societies are facing, including the climate crisis.
Dans l’actualité | Planet Labs
Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting
Learn about feasible and cost-effective reporting with AI, earth observation, and ecosystem science (download the white paper).
Dans l’actualité | UN Climate Change – Events
Moving at the Speed of AI: How AI Accelerates Progress on Climate Solutions
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels. Watch event from COP28.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
Given the urgency of the planetary crisis, society needs to push harder on the AI accelerator while establishing guardrails that steer the world safely, securely, and equitably toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and a nature-positive future. This year the world…
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn Article
Using AI to protect the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest in South America is one of the world’s largest and most dense, but it is disappearing at an alarming rate. Estimates from researchers indicate that approximately 18% of the Amazon rainforest has been completely lost, while an…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Stories
AI may hold a key to the preservation of the Amazon rainforest
An animal skitters through the heavy underbrush of the Colombian forest in the dark of night. Hidden deep in the brush is a camera trap that quickly snaps a picture. An AI tool called MegaDetector identifies and classifies the results,…
Dans l’actualité | TechChange
Earth Reimagined: Harnessing AI and Geospatial Technologies to Tackle Global Challenges
Join us for a fireside chat featuring Juan Lavista Ferres, VP, Chief Data Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Lab, and Carrie Stokes, USAID’s Chief Geographer and Director of the GeoCenter on the transformative potential of…