Ecology and environment

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Extending ClimaX for Flood Forecasting

May 13, 2025 | Samuel Chege Maina

This video showcases the innovative work by the Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi team on improving flood forecasting in Rwanda. By enhancing the ClimaX model, a transformer-based weather and climate model, the team aims to predict…

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Analyzing decades-long environmental changes in Namibia using archival aerial photography and deep learning

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Akram Zaytar, Rahul Dodhia, Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Emmanuel H. Kreike

Sustainable Transition with AI workshop at IJCAI 2024 | April 2025

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Fields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset For Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation

Hannah Kerner, Snehal Chaudhari, Aninda Ghosh, Caleb Robinson, Adeel Ahmad, Eddie Choi, Nathan Jacobs, Chris Holmes, Matthias Mohr, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jennifer Marcus

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | April 2025

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Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of April 7, 2025

April 9, 2025

In this issue: We introduce a new dataset designed to assist renewable energy infrastructure planners, a new method for denoising MRI imagery, and an AI tool for analyzing distant galaxies. Check out our latest research…

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The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence

Owen Gaffney, Amy Luers, Franklin Carrero-Martinez, Berna Oztekin-Gunaydin, F. Creutzig, Virginia Dignum, Victor Galaz, N. Ishii, F. Larosa, Maria Leptin, Ken Takahashi Guevara

Nature Sustainability | March 2025, Vol 8: pp. 467-469

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Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery

Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia, Andrew Zolli, Shivaprakash K Nagaraju, James Oakleaf, Joe Kiesecker, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

March 2025

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Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Amy Luers

March 2025

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Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Scientific Reports | February 2025

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SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings with Satellite Imagery

Konstantin Klemmer, Esther Rolf, Caleb Robinson, Lester Mackey, M. Russwurm

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | February 2025

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TerraTrace – Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Signatures for Land Use Analytics

Angela Busheska, Vikram Iyer, Bruno Silva, Peder Olsen, Ranveer Chandra, Vaishnavi Ranganathan

Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2025

Project FarmVibes | Research for Industry

Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Geospatial Machine Learning

Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

Extending ClimaX for Flood Forecasting

Analyzing decades-long environmental changes in Namibia using archival aerial photography and deep learning

Fields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset For Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation

Research Focus: Week of April 7, 2025

The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence

Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery

Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings with Satellite Imagery

TerraTrace – Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Signatures for Land Use Analytics

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