In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, GEOG faculty will develop novel AI techniques to improve global forest monitoring.
Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded $750,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) new program on Collaborations on Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) to address this challenge by combining remote sensing data, modeling and artificial intelligence.
The team’s project, titled "Toward Next-Generation Global Forest Carbon Monitoring via Integrated Sensing, Modeling, and AI to Advance Carbon Cycle Science," brings together Principal Investigator (PI) Yiqun Xie, an assistant professor in geospatial information science at the Department of Geographical Sciences, and his colleagues Professor George Hurtt and Assistant Research Professor Lei Ma, who are also Co-PIs of the project.
