Frokostwebinar – New AI foundation models uncover environmental crimes

Bakgrunn

AI foundation models are enabling new paradigms for remote environmental monitoring, including real-time satellite image analysis and Earth-search interfaces. We will talk through some recent technical developments and discuss efforts to report on land grabbing, illicit logging, and mining and the serious threats they pose to forest ecosystems and nearby communities.

Speaker

Edward Boyda is a physicist, teacher, data scientist, and satellite data journalist. He works with the California non-profit Earth Genome and the AI-Journalism resource center at OsloMet University, running satellite-driven investigations for environmental and human rights reporting. He helped build Amazon Mining Watch. Previously, he was a professor of physics at Saint Mary’s College of California, with interests in particle physics and quantum computing.