AI for Earth Innovation Program: Funding Available

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Deadline: 9 October 2019

The National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program is inviting applications from all over the world to support novel projects that create and deploy AI tools to improve the way they monitor, model, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems for a more sustainable future.

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The grants given by the partnership will support projects that create and deploy open source trained models and algorithms that make key analytical processes more efficient in the environmental field. As an additional opportunity, Microsoft will help the successful proposals make the completed models available for use by other environmental researchers and innovators.

To address the many pressing scientific questions and environmental challenges facing our planet, they must increase global understanding of how human activity is affecting natural systems and create a community of change, driven by data and cutting-edge technology.

Modern technologies, such as satellite and remote imaging, bioacoustic monitoring, and genomics, have led to massive and more complex data sets.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can capitalize on the information potential of such data, leading to faster and more meaningful insights and creating the potential for transformative solutions.

Grant Information

Core Areas

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Proposed work should create generalizable, scalable tools that use AI for conservation in at least one of the following core areas:

Project Requirements

All models supported through this grant must be open source, and grant recipients must be willing to publicly share their models for use by other environmental researchers and their data for use by the National Geographic Society.

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How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/ai-earth-innovation/

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