Microsoft announced earlier this year that it had plans to make its carbon footprint negative. Several companies in the sector had already committed to achieving carbon neutrality, so the plans of the North American technology are, at the very least, ambitious. However, this is not the only initiative that the Redmond giant has online in the environmental department.
This week, Microsoft announced a new project called "Planetary Computer". The initiative consists of the collection of data and images and their processing using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The idea is to arrive at insights about the state of the environment and send them to environmental organizations and governments around the world, in order to assist in taking measures to help build a more sustainable society.
The "Planetary Computer", or "Planetary Computer", in Portuguese, an extension of the AI ​​for Earth project, which puts artificial intelligence tools in the hands of partners working on issues related to the ocean, the forest, agriculture and animal life . In this sense, the company further advances that it plans to invest in more specific areas of the environmental sector, such as the identification of species and the mapping of wild areas.
It is also important to underline that Microsoft will start to collaborate with the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, which will receive 1 million dollars from the technology to continue its research work on the environment. As part of this partnership, the organization will try to monitor biodiversity and create new measurement standards that help other researchers to work on their environmental projects.
Microsoft has not advanced any further details, but it is clear that the technology intends to give more substance to its data records with even more date, in this case, to help preserve the environment and wildlife.
