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:
- User-friendly use of GIS and geodata — think: voice-control, search and data extraction
- Applications in environment and agriculture — think: remote sensing / Earth observation, smart farming and weather forecasts
- Applications in spatial planning and supply chain management — think: urban analytics and supply chain risk modelling
You can read the approximately two-page report here.