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Introducing PEARL — AI Accelerated Land Cover Mapping Platform
Development Seed and Microsoft AI for Earth are launching PEARL, an AI-accelerated platform for fast land cover mapping, for experimental use. PEARL represents a new approach to combining human intelligence and scalable AI for fast, accurate land cover mapping. It…
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Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 2
Until now, AI classifications have been out of reach for most local government stakeholders across both the developed and developing world. Leveraging AI techniques has meant bringing in specialized cooks and hardware, and these barriers mean that the exposure and…
In the news | World Bank Blogs
Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 1
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on the ground. Whether for infrastructure…