GeoAI: State-of-play in 2025

The Innovation Booster #ArtificialIntelligence has released a concise review of #GeoAI in Switzerland. The report highlights significant players, innovations, and developments in the field, showcasing how #AI is being integrated into #GIS applications by established providers and startups alike. It further identifies three main areas where AI is currently being applied in GIS.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

March 25, 2025

The Innosuisse-funded Innovation Booster Artificial Intelligence has published a review of GeoAI in Switzerland. The short report has been compiled by the Focus Group “Spatial Data Analytics” comprising Nicolas Lenz, Stefan Keller and Reik Leiterer. It summarizes important players, innovations, developments over the last four years and future directions of the use of purpose-optimized artificial intelligence1 methods for geospatial tasks2.

The report establishes that well-known Swiss GIS providers – EBP3, Esri Switzerland, Geocloud, GeoDataSolutions, GeoWerkstatt, Hexagon, Meteotest and more, unnamed, firms – have made progress integrating AI into GIS applications. Within the start-up- and small-company-space, the report identifies three main avenues in which AI is applied for GIS purposes:

You can read the approximately two-page report here.

Footnotes

  1. specifically, machine and deep learning↩︎

  2. For now, this is my rough working definition for the emerging field of “GeoAI”.↩︎

  3. Transparency note: I work here.↩︎