AI for Good: Mapping land cover to support Natural Capital Asset Index tracking in Scotland
Murray Collins, CEO, Space Intelligence
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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.
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