十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心 Turns 10

公司成立于2013年，拥有 来自英特尔的格兰特和 Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign

Annapolis, MD – 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心 (CIC) turns 10 this year. Established in 2013 with two staff members, the CIC currently has 13 employees helping to change how conservation is done, using cutting-edge technology to empower data-driven conservation and restoration success. 通过当地, 区域和国家伙伴关系, the CIC makes data accessible for conservation professionals to practice precision conservation, which means using data to look at the right restoration and conservation practices in the right places at the right times. With such precision, conservationists yield greater impact with fewer resources.

“The idea for the CIC was developed and nurtured by former 十大赌博正规老平台 Board Member Stephen Harper, 谁, after working for Intel for nearly 15 years, decided to take a conservation sabbatical at 十大赌博正规老平台,” said 十大赌博正规老平台 President & 首席执行官乔尔·邓恩. “Today, the CIC is empowering others to work smarter, not harder, through the latest technology. Just as the use of technology changed the corporate world to make it more efficient, technology is changing the conservation movement.”

“What gives me great hope for the conservation of our planet and the idea of saving 30% or 50% of the globe to protect biodiversity is seeing organizations like 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心 democratizing data and taking information to action and making things happen,” said Esri President Jack Dangermond.

“Looking back over the last 10 years, 我为我们的团队感到骄傲, 过去和现在, 谁做了如此不可思议的工作. In addition to creating high-resolution land use/land cover data and harnessing the power of machine learning for conservation, our conservation technology team has helped empower major conservation achievements,邓恩说.

“最近, the 环保创新中心 created a deep learning model that automatically maps ground-mounted solar arrays in satellite imagery. As solar power grows rapidly in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this new map finally answered where. Our data scientists also developed a deep learning model for mapping wetland presence, which currently operates with 94% accuracy in select regions. 目前, we are working in partnership with researchers to create detailed and accurate maps of previously under-mapped streams throughout the Chesapeake watershed using LiDAR data and novel terrain interpretation techniques,邓恩继续说.

We look back at a “Top Ten” of CIC’s accomplishments for the 10th! (*排名不分先后):

  1. Founded in 2013 with an initial project funded by a grant from Intel and the Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign

  2. Created 60+ web applications and online tools to assist local and regional conservation and restoration partners

  3. Supported 10+ land trusts and conservation collaboratives in their land conservation efforts through customized prioritization tools, 分析和地图

  4. Empowered the passage of Maryland Forest Conservation bills through high-resolution tree canopy analyses

  5. Guided optimal solar implementation for 14 counties through landscape analysis with an emphasis on conservation/restoration criteria

  6. Provided the first openly available high-resolution change data for both land cover and land use for the Chesapeake (2022)

  7. Hired two data scientists specializing in machine learning with funding from the Grayce B. 克尔基金公司. (2019, 2022)

  8. Sent keynote speakers to Esri’s International User Conference (2016) and is featured in Microsoft video (2017) and Wired magazine (2018)

  9. Is subject of Harvard Business School case study (2020)

  10. Produced Chesapeake Bay High-Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Database released by EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program (2016)

十大赌博正规老平台 recently hosted a webinar explaining the work of CIC, available to view at 位.ly / 2023 cicwebinar.

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