Land Cover Mapping
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In the news | Development Seed Blog
Introducing PEARL — AI Accelerated Land Cover Mapping Platform
Development Seed and Microsoft AI for Earth are launching PEARL, an AI-accelerated platform for fast land cover mapping, for experimental use. PEARL represents a new approach to combining human intelligence and scalable AI for fast, accurate land cover mapping. It…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the effects of glacial melting at the top of the world
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, stretching for more than 2,000 miles, is home to the world’s highest mountains. Names like Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga summon images of snow-capped, icy peaks as far as the eye can see.
In the news | World Bank Blogs
Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 2
Until now, AI classifications have been out of reach for most local government stakeholders across both the developed and developing world. Leveraging AI techniques has meant bringing in specialized cooks and hardware, and these barriers mean that the exposure and…
In the news | World Bank Blogs
Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 1
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on the ground. Whether for infrastructure…
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Achievement Unlocked – Nearly 200 million images into a national land cover map in about 10 minutes
When we started AI for Earth, we had one simple but huge ambition – to fundamentally transform the way we, as a society, monitor, model and manage Earth’s natural resources. That transformation will ultimately require collecting and processing exceptionally large…