Research
Applying computing to better understand ecosystems, address environmental challenges, and support a more sustainable future.
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of…
Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate, as threats from human settlement expansion, illegal wildlife killing, and climate change place enormous pressure on wildlife populations. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting…
Our land cover mapping work uses computer vision to accelerate the process of turning remote sensing data into land use and land cover information, so that environmental scientists and geospatial analysts can spend less time…
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…
Decision-makers rely on weather forecasts to plant crops, manage wildfires, allocate water and energy, and prepare for weather extremes. Today, such forecasts enjoy unprecedented accuracy out to two weeks thanks to steady advances in physics-based…