This talk describes how Space Intelligence has been working with stakeholders in Scottish land management to fill data gaps to better enable monitoring of Scotland’s natural wealth, and addresses how attempts at land cover restoration could be a key component of a green bounceback from Covid -19.
Murray Collins is CEO of Space Intelligence, an Edinburgh-based start-up supporting Nature Based Solutions to Climate Change. The team focuses on the analysis of big data from space to quantify ecosystem properties, with a particular focus on tropical forest regions. Murray is also Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been developing the innovation strategy for Space and Satellite data.
* Topic Title: AI for Good: Mapping land cover to support Natural Capital Asset Index tracking in Scotland. This talk describes how Space Intelligence has been working with stakeholders in Scottish land management to fill data gaps to better enable monitoring of Scotland’s natural wealth, and addresses how attempts at land cover restoration could be a key component of a green bounceback from Covid -19.
9.00
9.15
Kate Forbes MSP
10.05
Mark Goodwin
Mike Fergusson
Andrew Harmel Law
Bev Harrow, Lee Hutchinson and Chris Hughes
11.00
Chris Yule
Kief Morris
Janet Onyia
Richard Marshall
11.50
Session 3
AI for Good Mapping land cover to support Natural Capital Asset Index tracking in Scotland
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Dr Poonam Malik, Ben Shorrock, David Dunn, Jane Morrison-Ross
Alyssa Miller
Chris Heilmann
13.20
Session 4
Ten Traits that Differentiate the most Trusted Advisors
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Innovating with Immigration.
Austen Mulinder
Dr James McMinn
Jamie Kerr
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Gavin Littlejohn
Alex Bell and Petur Einarsson
14.10
Session 5
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Olivia Gambelin, Joseph Crispell
Kathryn Strachan
Peter Proud
Brian Baglow
Paul Neeson and Andrew Noble
15.30
Session 6
A Fyne future for graphical development
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Tales from the Crypt(o)
Serverless Architecture
Andrew Williams
Dr David Alexander
Matt Summers
Julian Wood
16.15
Closing Keynote
Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President – AI & ISV Engagement at Microsoft Corporation
17.15
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