Advancing AI for Environmental Sustainability: Data, Methods, and Applications

Session ID#: 281397

Session Description:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed how we address pressing environmental sustainability challenges from local to global. Today, satellite and airborne platforms deliver multi-modal Earth observation data, including multispectral, radar, hyperspectral, and LiDAR data, at unprecedented resolutions. In parallel, rapid advances in AI, ranging from specialized deep learning architectures to large-scale foundation models, offer scalable tools to translate these diverse observations into actionable scientific knowledge.

This session welcomes contributions spanning the entire pipeline from data to impact. Topics include, but are not limited to: constructing benchmark datasets, designing novel architectures, and deploying AI-led innovations for ecosystem monitoring, land-use/cover and urban dynamics, biodiversity and conservation, carbon and water cycle, precision agriculture, extreme weather forecasting, and global environmental changes.

Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
1942 Machine learning [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener:  Jiaqi Yang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Taejin Park, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States and Min Chen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
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