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Geospatial artificial intelligence ( GeoAI ) is an interdisciplinary field that combines geospatial science and artificial intelligence ( AI ).
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( PolyU ) is harnessing innovative GeoAI technologies to provide ground-breaking solutions for some of the environmental and social challenges facing the world today , in various fields including transportation , urban and public safely , planning , climate change and natural disasters .
Lifetime Achievement Honor Award for his groundbreaking contributions in geography .
One direction for the Research Centre is investigation into human-environment interactions in urbanisation by utilising geospatial analytics , GeoAI and big data methods .
Another direction is to create various data products of global urban areas using Earth Observations ( EO ) and to provide EO-based urban data services .
Prof . Qihao Weng , Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Global STEM Professor , established the PolyU Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Geomatics ( RCAIG ), to focus on the development of original and innovative AI methodologies and technologies for geomatics and their applications in urban areas , with the goal of it becoming a global R & D hub in GeoAI .
Prof . Weng has recently been honoured with the 2024 American Association of Geographers ( AAG ) Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography and the 2024 AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group
As RCAIG Principal Investigator and Director , Prof . Weng said : “ Earth observation is important as a guiding compass for understanding changes in the environment and society . Our research focuses on diverse fields including geospatial big data and AI , remote sensing , ground-based sensors , navigation and positioning , surveying and geodesy , laser scanning and photogrammetry . These technologies play a crucial role in addressing and resolving key environmental and social challenges .”
In particular , GeoAI has revolutionised building monitoring by utilising thousands of learnable parameters .
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