From tracking climate resilience in African drylands to monitoring crop health in vineyards, geospatial artificial intelligence — or GeoAI — is fundamentally transforming how we understand our planet.
Erin Bunting is an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, where she is an expert in remote sensing and leveraging big data, geospatial analysis, modeling and statistics to understand environmental change, climate impacts and human-environment connections.
In her new book, “Remote Sensing, Big Data and GeoAI,” Bunting explores the power, ethics and future of GeoAI. Below, she explains how satellites, big data and AI are moving geography beyond static maps and why critical thinking is more important than ever.