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| IFIA Magazine - Mar ch 2021
natIonal geographIc
fund submIssIons open
on aI for earth
InnovatIon
The National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program are partnering to
support novel projects that create and deploy AI tools to improve the way we monitor, model,
understand, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural resources for a more sustainable future.
The grants given by the partnership will support projects that use cloud computing to create
and deploy open-source models and algorithms that make key analytical processes more
efficient in the field. This partnership is focused on supporting projects that will build tools
such as applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), or packages to be shared.
Microsoft will help the successful applicants make their models and tools available for use by
other environmental researchers and innovators.
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