Artificial intelligence for geoscience: Progress, challenges and perspectives

T Zhao, S Wang, C Ouyang, M Chen, C Liu, J Zhang… - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
This paper explores the evolution of geoscientific inquiry, tracing the progression from
traditional physics-based models to modern data-driven approaches facilitated by significant …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications

J Wang, F Biljecki - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Unsupervised learning (UL) has a long and successful history in untangling the complexity
of cities. As the counterpart of supervised learning, it discovers patterns from intrinsic data …

A prolonged artificial nighttime-light dataset of China (1984-2020)

L Zhang, Z Ren, B Chen, P Gong, B Xu, H Fu - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Nighttime light remote sensing has been an increasingly important proxy for human
activities. Despite an urgent need for long-term products and pilot explorations in …

Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid

E Aiken, S Bellue, D Karlan, C Udry, JE Blumenstock - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many low-and middle-income countries, causing
widespread food insecurity and a sharp decline in living standards. In response to this crisis …

[HTML][HTML] A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission

H Clark, AM Coll-Seck, A Banerjee, S Peterson… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over
recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological …

Seasonal contrast: Unsupervised pre-training from uncurated remote sensing data

O Manas, A Lacoste, X Giró-i-Nieto… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Remote sensing and automatic earth monitoring are key to solve global-scale challenges
such as disaster prevention, land use monitoring, or tackling climate change. Although there …

[HTML][HTML] The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

R Vinuesa, H Azizpour, I Leite, M Balaam… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many
sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable …