Articles by Lucas Joppa

About Lucas Joppa

Lucas Joppa is Microsoft's Chief Environmental Scientist, serving as the company's internal and external focal point on matters pertaining to the scientific credibility of our corporate environmental sustainability goals while co-directing 'AI for Earth', a program dedicated to deploying Microsoft's artificial intelligence technologies in the four key areas of biodiversity, agriculture, water, and climate change.

How AI Can Help Cities Conserve Resources and Plan for the Future

How AI Can Help Cities Conserve Resources and Plan for the Future

by | Nov 1, 2017 | Resources, Technology | 0 Comments

Unfortunately, many local decision-makers do not have easy access to accurate and timely data. The most accessible land cover map for the United States is currently produced at 30 meter resolution, and is now 5 years out of date. Products like these are useful when asking very broad questions at a national scale, but the lack of spatial and temporal resolution minimizes the utility of these data for city-level planning.