Artificial Intelligence for Earth Monitoring MOOC

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important part in our daily lives, whether it is providing our personalised social media feeds, online shopping or streaming movie suggestions, or even the mapping apps that route us around traffic jams. On a bigger scale, AI is already having a major impact on healthcare, finance, farming and many other sectors and its influence is predicted to expand rapidly in the coming years. One area where there is considerable untapped potential for AI is in the field of Earth observation, where it can be used to help manage large datasets, find new insights in data and generate new products and services. With this in mind, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International and the EEA have joined up to develop a new massive open online course (MOOC) on AI and Earth monitoring. The idea for the course is to introduce participants to the wealth of Copernicus Earth observation data and the AI and machine learning techniques that can be used to work with it.