NOAA AI Center seeds next wave of Artificial Intelligence research

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“Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are increasingly leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to better understand the environment and make potentially life-saving predictions. With an extensive network of environmental satellites and observation systems that collect real-time weather, climate, and ocean data, the federal agency currently uses AI to interpret earth, ocean, and atmospheric observations, improve weather forecasting, monitor marine mammal and fish populations, and aid many other applications.

As NOAA seeks to expand its use of AI and ML to every mission area, it recently launched an effort to improve the efficiency and coordination of AI development and use across the agency. Historically, NOAA scientists have undertaken AI initiatives and ML models independently, with every researcher potentially having a different idea about how to leverage AI for a specific project; development happens organically. As a result, line offices, made up of multiple research centers and divisions, are each at a different stage of maturity in the AI journey.

‘To create truly transformational products, we needed a more consistent, synchronized approach to AI across the agency,’ says Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, principal scientist for strategic initiatives at NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research, the research arm of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. ‘We aim to dramatically expand the application of AI in every NOAA mission area by improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and coordination of AI development and usage across the agency.’

NOAA developed a bold strategy focused on achieving five strategic goals. One of those entailed the establishment of a virtual NOAA AI Center, allowing line offices to share best practices and integrate efforts when appropriate…” Read the full article here.

Source: NOAA Seeds the Next Wave of AI Research – April 28, 2021, WSJ.

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