Earth Science Data Sources

Microsoft's Azure machine learning tech is being put to good use in a grant program designed to give computing resources to scientists working on environmental sustainability programs.

In support of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System

In support of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System

In this first part of a 2-part series, we explore the importance of geospatial data and analysis to a range of business use cases and how a data lakehouse is the best framework for extracting valuable insights at scale.

GBIF now has a snapshot of 1.3 billion occurrences✝ records on Microsoft Azure. It is hosted by the Microsoft AI for Earth program, which hosts geospatial datasets that are important to environmental sustainability and Earth science. Hosting is convenient because you could now use occurrences in combination with other environmental layers and not need to upload any of it to the Azure. You can read previous discussions about GBIF and cloud computing here. The main reason you would want to use cloud computing is to run big data queries that are slow or impractical on a local machine.

Microsoft AI for Earth empowers organizations and individuals working to solve environmental challenges. Learn more about AI for conservation.

In Texas, animal or plant species of conservation concern may be listed as threatened or endangered under the authority of state law and/or under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Species may be listed as state threatened or endangered and not federally listed. The state list deals only with the status of the species within Texas.