Microsoft AI for Earth | |
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Type of project | AI-based projects in the areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate change |
Location | 40 countries |
Founder | AI for Social Good[ citation needed] |
Key people | |
Funding | Microsoft Research |
Microsoft AI For Earth Programme is a private project launched in July 2017 that uses Microsoft AI for earth and people related studies. Microsoft has allocated a $50 million budget for the programs. [4] [5] [6] [7]
AI for Earth has developed "the Planetary Computer", it offers APIs, data catalogs through azure storage and open source tools. [8]
Initially Microsoft had invested $2 million but then started a "expanded strategic approach". [9] [10]
The initiative has 50 partnerships, 950 projects [11]
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