ΑΙhub.org
 

Monitoring the climate crisis with AI, satellites and drones – a workshop at NeurIPS2020


by
09 March 2021



share this:
Drone in countryside

As part of the workshop programme at NeurIPS2020, Climate Change AI (CCAI) held an all-day session on “Tackling climate change with machine learning”. They also organised a side event on “Monitoring the climate crisis with AI, satellites and drones”. You can watch the talks from this side event in full in a recording provided by CCAI.

AIhub focus issue on climate action

In this workshop, the speakers, from both industry and academia, discuss how artificial intelligence and remote sensing can be used to monitor global carbon impact. They also consider trust and accountability issues relating to governments, companies, and international projects.

Speakers for this event:

Susan Graham, CEO, Dendra Systems
Dendra Systems: Building the most powerful tools for ecosystem restoration today

Xiaoxiang Zhu, Technical University of Munich
Earth observation data science meets climate science

Matthew Gray, director at Energy and Clean Air Analytics (ECAA)
ECAA and Climate TRACE

You can find out more about this event, and the main workshop, here.

Find out more about Climate Change AI here.



tags: , , ,


Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.
Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.




            AIhub is supported by:



Related posts :



Identifying patterns in insect scents using machine learning

  19 Dec 2025
Scientists will use machine learning to predict what types of molecules interact with insect olfactory receptors.

2025 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium interviews compilation

  18 Dec 2025
We collate our interviews with the 2025 cohort of doctoral consortium participants.

A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’

  17 Dec 2025
In a wave of new ads, brands like Heineken, Polaroid and Cadbury have started celebrating their work as “human-made”.

AIhub blog post highlights 2025

  16 Dec 2025
As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at some of our favourite blog posts.

Using machine learning to track greenhouse gas emissions

  15 Dec 2025
PhD candidate Julia Wąsala searches for greenhouse gas emissions in satellite data.

AAAI 2025 presidential panel on the future of AI research – video discussion on AGI

  12 Dec 2025
Watch the first in a series of video discussions from AAAI.

The Machine Ethics podcast: the AI bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

Ben chats to Tim about AI use cases, whether GenAI is even safe, the AI bubble, replacing human workers, data oligarchies and more.

Australia’s vast savannas are changing, and AI is showing us how

Improving decision-making for dynamic and rapidly changing environments.



 

AIhub is supported by:






 












©2025.05 - Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence