Ecology and environment

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…

Publication

Embedding physics domain knowledge into a Bayesian network enables layer-by-layer process innovation for photovoltaics

Zekun Ren, Zekun Ren, Felipe Oviedo, Maung Thway, Siyu I. P. Tian, Siyu I. P. Tian, Yue Wang, Hansong Xue, Jose Dario Perea, Jose Dario Perea, Mariya Layurova, Thomas Heumueller, Thomas Heumueller, Erik Birgersson, Armin G. Aberle, Christoph J. Brabec, Christoph J. Brabec, Rolf Stangl, Qianxiao Li, Shijing Sun, Fen Lin, Ian Marius Peters, Tonio Buonassisi, Tonio Buonassisi

January 2020

Event

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

January 29, 2020 – January 30, 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland

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…

Publication

Distributed Inference and API Hosting for an Image Analysis Service: A Case Study on Land Cover Mapping

Dan Morris, Patrick Flickinger, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marsman, Nebojsa Jojic, Lucas Joppa

AGU Fall Meeting 2019 | December 2019

Project

Publication

Rheology of a nematic active suspension undergoing oscillatory shear and step strain flows

Sara Malvar, Bruno Souza Carmo, F. R. Cunha

Rheologica Acta | November 2019, Vol 58(11): pp. 771-779

Publication

Improving Passive Acoustic Monitoring Applications to the Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whale

Ming Zhong, Manuel Castellote, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mandy Keogh, Arial Brewer

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | November 2019, Vol 146(4): pp. 3089-3089

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National Open Data Cubes and Their Contribution to Country-Level Development Policies and Practices

Trevor Dhu, Gregory Giuliani, Jimena Juárez, Argyro Kavvada, Brian Killough, Paloma Merodio, Stuart Minchin, Steven Ramage

MDPI Data | November 2019, Vol 4: pp. 144-160

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…

Publication

On the locomotion and collective behavior of biopolymer producing bacteria

Sara Malvar, Bruno Souza Carmo, Julio Romano Meneghini

72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics | September 2019

Video

SCAI – Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research India

August 5, 2019 | Sriram Rajamani, Satish Sangameswaran, Siddharth Prakash

Microsoft Research India has established a center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI). Part of the Microsoft Research (MSR) Lab in Bengaluru, this center will focus on creating and nurturing projects that…

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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

Land Cover Mapping

Embedding physics domain knowledge into a Bayesian network enables layer-by-layer process innovation for photovoltaics

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

Distributed Inference and API Hosting for an Image Analysis Service: A Case Study on Land Cover Mapping

Rheology of a nematic active suspension undergoing oscillatory shear and step strain flows

Improving Passive Acoustic Monitoring Applications to the Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whale

National Open Data Cubes and Their Contribution to Country-Level Development Policies and Practices

Subseasonal Climate Forecasting

On the locomotion and collective behavior of biopolymer producing bacteria

SCAI – Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research India

Ecology and environment

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