Geospatial insights are in high demand and automating the feature extraction process is key to scaling up your aerial mapping services. Along with the hardware and software sectors, the drone services market is the largest segment in the commercial drone industry with the strongest expansion. According to the market research report “Global Drone Service Market […]
Today microcontrollers can be found in almost any technical device, from washing machines to blood pressure meters and wearables. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS have developed AIfES, an artificial intelligence (AI) concept for microcontrollers and sensors that contains a completely configurable artificial neural network. AIfES is a platform-independent machine […]
To make the benefits of artificial intelligence accessible to everyone, Picterra developed an online platform that allows users without machine-learning or programming expertise to plug AI into their image analysis and geospatial analytics workflow. What started in June 2018 as a beta version of an AI-powered image analysis platform, turned into a geospatial analytics hub […]
In April, the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence presented their ethics guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence. This follows the publication of the guidelines’ first draft in December 2018 on which more than 500 comments were received through an open consultation. According to the guidelines, trustworthy artificial intelligence should be: Lawful – respecting […]
Whether its grabbing, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing – in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the most diverse tasks. In that regard, the human hand, with its unique combination of power, dexterity and fine motor skills, is a true miracle tool of nature. What could be […]
Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) has launched a new Artificial Intelligence Working Group to help demystify AI and enable the mining industry to harness its applications. The working group has launched with a workshop hosted by IBM in Australia in November 2018. The group intends to create a greater understanding of AI and its applications […]
It seems it’s become impossible to talk about IT, or business today, without talking about artificial intelligence (AI). The technology has even been hailed as “the new electricity”. In April, Gartner announced that the AI industry will be worth $1,2-trillion in 2018, with customer experience solutions creating the most business value. These solutions are unlikely […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) Domain Working Group (DWG) Charter. Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) technologies have started to be coupled with geoinformatics and are bringing geospatial intelligence to various domains, including autonomous transportation, predictable healthcare and sustainable urban planning/design/development, among others. For […]
Earlier this year Microsoft Philanthropies announced US$1-million in cash and technology grants to three innovative South African non-profit organisations to help further their work in driving greater social impact in South Africa. Peace Parks Foundation was one of the grant recipients, and I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the Foundation’s new technologies […]
Biased algorithms are everywhere, so at a critical moment in the evolution of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in education applications, it is important to talk about the issues this poses. Education author Cathy Ruben recently interviewed Ralph Müller-Eiselt, expert in education policy and governance at the Bertelsmann Foundation, to get his view. […]
