Human behavior affects our Earth and the life that it sustains every day. As our society has evolved, our actions have given rise to climate change, economic disparities between nations, a decline in the biodiversity of the entire planet and more. We may see these as independent systems, while in fact they are deeply connected.
Teams at SAS and IIASA asked, “What if we could predict how change in one system might ultimately affect another?” With millions of new sources of digital images collected every day and the explosive growth of computational and computer vision capabilities, we can expand our understanding of the health of our planet in unprecedented ways.