FOA-AI
For Earth Innovation Grants; October 21,
2020
Agency
National
Geographic & Microsoft AI for Earth
Description:
Modern
technologies such as satellite and remote imaging, bio-acoustic monitoring, and
genomics have led to massive and more complex data sets. Artificial
intelligence (AI) and cloud computing have the potential to capitalize on the
information potential of such data, leading to faster and more meaningful
insights and creating the potential for transformative
solutions.
To
better take advantage of thee technologies, the
National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program have issued an
RFP for novel projects that create and deploy AI tools to improve the way we
monitor, model, understand, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems for a
more sustainable future. Under the AI for Earth Innovation RFP, grants of up to
$100,000 will be awarded in support of projects that use cloud computing to
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. In addition to financial support, successful proposals will receive
free access to AI for Earth APIs, applications, tools, and tutorials, and
support for their computational work on Microsoft Azure.
Projects
should create generalizable, scalable tools that use AI for conservation in at
least one of the core topic areas of biodiversity and climate
change.
All
models supported through the grant must be open source and grant recipients
must be willing to publicly share their models for use by other environmental
researchers.
Closing
Date:
October
21, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/ai-earth-innovation/
Contact
Information: