Ecology and environment
Project
Accelerating Biodiversity Surveys with AI
Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate, as threats from human settlement expansion, illegal wildlife killing, and climate change place enormous pressure on wildlife populations. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting…
Project
Land Cover Mapping
Our land cover mapping work uses computer vision to accelerate the process of turning remote sensing data into land use and land cover information, so that environmental scientists and geospatial analysts can spend less time…
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…
Project
Subseasonal Climate Forecasting
Water managers in the western United States rely on long-term forecasts of temperature and precipitation to prepare for droughts and other wet weather extremes. To improve the accuracy of these long-term forecasts, the U.S. Bureau…