Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests

Specializing in geospatial and remote sensing analysis, ecological and population modeling, statistics, conservation planning / design, and education

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.

Data driven forestry. Better data, better decisions.

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.