GeoAIR Lab

Very honored to be part of this great research panel at the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 2022 symposium at Syracuse University about the past, present and future of AI in spatial decision support!

Excited to share our new paper in Transactions in GIS with the brilliant @lipingyangGeoAI and her exceptional PhD student, @SSarigai30922 —two inspiring scholars making waves in the field! #BigData #geovisualization #webmapping @NMSUGeography @NMSUVPR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tg…

🌍🌎🌏 Enhancing #LandCover Mapping and Monitoring: An Interactive and Explainable #MachineLearning Approach Using #GoogleEarthEngine ✍️ Haifei Chen et al. 📎 brnw.ch/21wNsX4

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought nature.com/articles/s4158… “Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. We begin by introducing the brain network that supports linguistic ability in humans. We then review evidence for a double dissociation between language and thought, and discuss several properties of language that suggest that it is optimized for communication. We conclude that although the emergence of language has unquestionably transformed human culture, language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought. Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.”

Give them wings to fly #phd #research #academia

Our own Valeria presenting her ASSURE award project, mentored by Dr. Liping Yang @lipingyangGeoAI. GeoAIR is very proud of you, Valeria! Way to go!

Looking for a robust algorithm for line detection or image vectorization? Check out our new and robust algorithm (with open-sourced Python implementation) at arxiv.org/abs/2403.18038 @giswqs

If you have questions about why Meta open-sources its AI, here's a clear answer in Meta's earnings call today from @finkd

Dr. Liping Yang @UNM_GES, @GeoAIR_Lab, and @aspireUNM presenting on Enhancing Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring using @googleearth Engine via machine learning! #nmgicfall2023

We hope our open-source tool will inspire researchers to facilitate explainable AI (XAI)-empowered remote sensing applications with GEE and geemap.

GeoAIR lab led paper "Enhancing Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring: An Interactive and Explainable Machine Learning Approach Using Google Earth Engine" is published doi.org/10.3390/rs1518……; accompanying code is available github.com/GeoAIR-lab/XAI……. @giswqs #GEE #AI #XAI #LULC

@giswqs This is the first important attempt to combine the power of GEE + XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence). In the paper, we use LULC classification and monitoring as two demonstrative cases, but our method and workflow is pretty flexible to adapt to other use cases.

Are you a triangle or a square? It depends on your point of view.

In testimony to the US House this morning, @huggingface CEO @clem said in his opening statement that open science and open-source AI “are extremely aligned with American values and interests.” venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-fac…

GeoAIR lab's very own Joshua received the outstanding graduate student award. Very well done, Joshua! GeoAIR lab's very proud of you. Very best wishes for a bright future:)

great job, Joshua! GeoAIR lab is very proud of you. @UNM_GES @lipingyangGeoAI

Dear #ClimateChange deniers and bots Over 99% scientist agree that #climatechange is happening and it is due to human greenhouse gas emissions Stop telling everyone there is disagreement - as there is none! The world is getting hotter 🌡 and it is us iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

#EarthDay2023 #ClimateChange is about consumption of the very richest people in our global society. 50% of global emissions are emitted by just 10% of the population. 90% of global emissions by 50% of the population. We need to recognise climate justice to save our planet

GeoAIR lab led paper "Google Earth Engine and Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Comprehensive Review" is Editor's Choice article and is one of the Highly Cited Papers, top downloaded and viewed papers! @giswqs @RemoteSens_MDPI mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1…

Most insightful graph…🧐 “GIScience and cartography degrees take up a larger proportion of current degree conferrals, particularly among master’s degrees”. Also a significant increase ⁦@uzh_geo⁩ ⁦@UZH_Science⁩ ☺️‼️👇🏼 aag.org/the-state-of-g…