Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024
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04-10: Learn how open geospatial generative ai models are being used to track deforestation, illegal mining, and other environmental crises
Time:
Thursday, 16/May/2024:
10:30am - 12:30pm
Location:MC 7-100
Presentations
Generative AI for Earth. Learn how new open geospatial models help track deforestation, illegal mining, and other critical issues.
Mikel Maron1, Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuno2
1Earth Genome, United States of America; 2Clay Foundation, United States of America
Large Earth “Foundation Models” are a newer approach to AI that don’t require extensive machine learning and earth observation capacity. This opens up their use to vastly more end users and critical needs.
Earth Index, an open-source project of the non-profit Earth Genome, rethinks environmental monitoring. Regardless of technical background, this approach enables creation of actionable, locally fine-tuned maps of environmental trends through iterative human-in-the-loop training of machine-learning models. Earth Index's practical applications are numerous, from tracking gold mining in the Amazon to uncovering previously unmapped Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in the American South. See also https://www.earthgenome.org/
Clay, a non-profit, is dedicated to building the open-source geospatial foundational AI models that power applications like Earth Index and others. Clay is scaling climate and sustainability solutions by growing an ecosystem of models and data that harness the power of Earth information. See also https://madewithclay.org/
