Microsoft AI for Earth

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|funding=Microsoft Research

|founder=AI for Social Good{{fact|date=December 2023}}

|type=AI-based projects in the areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate change

|key_people={{Plainlist|

• Lucas Joppa
• Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuñohttps://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transformation/with-azure-the-us-army-corps-of-engineers-gains-a-powerful-tool-for-storm-modeling/https://doku.tech/speakers/bruno-sanchez-2022/
• Alma Cárdenashttps://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/retooling-ai-for-earth-grants-with-microsoft-dynamics-365/
• Harry Shum

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|location=40 countries

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Microsoft AI For Earth Programme is a private project launched in July 2017 that uses Microsoft AI for earth and people related studies. Microsoft has allocated a $50 million budget for the programs.{{Cite web

|last=Lunden |first=Ingrid |date=2017-07-12 |title=Microsoft launches AI for Earth to give $2M in services to environmental projects |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-launches-ai-for-earth-to-give-2m-in-services-to-environmental-projects/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Hebbar |first=Prajakta |date=2018-09-05 |title=Microsoft AI For Earth Programme Selects 7 Indian Grantees |url=https://analyticsindiamag.com/microsoft-ai-for-earth-7-indian-grantees/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Analytics India Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Microsoft AI for Earth adds Wild Me to $50M project initiative {{!}} College of Engineering {{!}} University of Illinois Chicago |url=https://engineering.uic.edu/news-stories/microsoft-ai-for-earth-adds-wild-me-to-50m-project-initiative/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=AI for Earth grantee gallery |url=http://localhost:4000/AIforEarth-Grantees/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=AI for Earth grantee gallery |language=en}}

AI for Earth has developed "the Planetary Computer", it offers APIs, data catalogs through azure storage and open source tools.{{Cite web |title=Microsoft Planetary Computer |url=https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=planetarycomputer.microsoft.com |language=en}}

Initially Microsoft had invested $2 million but then started a "expanded strategic approach".{{Cite news |title=Microsoft wants to be a major AI player. Here's its master plan |language=en-GB |work=Wired UK |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microsoft-ai-research |access-date=2023-06-11 |issn=1357-0978}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Brad |date=2017-12-11 |title=AI for Earth can be a game-changer for our planet |url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/12/11/ai-for-earth-can-be-a-game-changer-for-our-planet/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Microsoft On the Issues |language=en-US}}

The initiative has 50 partnerships, 950 projects{{Cite web |title=AI for Earth - Microsoft AI |url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-earth |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=www.microsoft.com |language=en-us}}