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Australian geospatial thought leadership™️ has a massive boner for geoAI right now - as in the JMSU, 1m resolution magicked from 10m data variety. Not the mislabeled statistical model variety.

...and a sane "people, have you not watched this approach fuck up every single thing so far?" approach is just not tolerable.

Better go make a picture of myself as an action figure. Maybe thats how to get hired?

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TIL about a new European data-driven weather forecasting model, the Artificial Intelligence/Integrated Forecasting System (AIFS) that outperforms leading physics-based global numerical weather prediction
ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/178/ne

HT linkedin.com/posts/shoaibburq_

ECMWFAIFS: a new ECMWF forecasting system 

GeoAI: State-of-play in 2025: The Innovation Booster #ArtificialIntelligence has released a concise review of #GeoAI in Switzerland. The report highlights significant players, innovations, and developments in the field, showcasing how #AI is being integrated into #GIS...
spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03-2 #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

spatialists.ch – geospatial newsGeoAI: State-of-play in 2025 – spatialists.ch – geospatial news
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Paper Alert ❗
Can we use AI and social media posts to predict pandemic outbreaks?

A study by David Hanny et al. presents a new GeoAI framework that integrates mobile phone data and geo-referenced social media posts to assess their relationship with COVID-19 incidence rates in Rio de Janeiro.

The findings show that social media activity related to COVID-19, tourism and leisure activities strongly correlates with infection rates.

📄 Read more: heigit.org/new-paper-an-explai

AI tools and open geodata can help humanitarian practitioners in taking informed decisions, optimizing operations, and fostering community resilience with disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action.

We are looking forward to discussing emerging technologies at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Weeks 2025:

💡 Session "GeoAI in Action: Practical Tools for Humanitarian Impact"
🗣️ Sukanya Randhawa
📅 24 Mar 25, 11:00-12:30
📍 Geneve 🇨🇭 & online

ℹ️ heigit.org/events/geoai-in-act

We have released #SketchMapTool v2.1!
This version uses a larger training dataset and an updated machine learning model for sketch detection to deliver a higher accuracy in digitizing hand-sketched markings.

ℹ️ Sketch Map Tool is an open-source web app for participatory mapping that enables the creation, digitization, and analysis of paper maps.

📄Read about SMT v2.1 and access the training dataset & ML model: heigit.org/digitizing-maps-wit

✏️Try it out: sketch-map-tool.heigit.org/

This new paper by Steffen Knoblauch et al. explores how students are exposed to crime while commuting to schools in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷.
Relying on GeoAI techniques, the study reveals inequalities in geographic access to education -- dispute areas increase travel time to the nearest school by 49%.

📋 A concise overview of the study: heigit.org/new-paper-crime-ass
📄 Full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti