'Trustable AI': Scottish project to develop standards for AI use in environmental mapping

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Credit: James Hutton Institute

The Trustable AI in Mapping (TAiM) initiative to assess reliability of AI and Machine Learning in mapping nature, natural carbon stores, and other environmental data

A Scottish consortium of geospatial and environmental data experts have joined forces to to assess the reliability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in mapping nature,...

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