NASA is <a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/14/from-questions-to-discoveries-nasas-new-earth-copilot-brings-microsoft-ai-capabilities-to-democratize-access-to-complex-data/”>partner with Microsoft create an ai chatbot designed to make it easier to access and understand scientific data about Earth. The tool, called Earth Copilot, will be able to answer questions about our planet by condensing NASA's wide range of geospatial information into easy-to-digest answers.
To create the tool, NASA is integrating ai into its data repository, allowing Earth Copilot to query this information by answering questions such as “What was the impact of Hurricane Ian on Sanibel Island?” or “How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected air quality in the US?”
NASA aims to “democratize” access to scientific data with the launch of Earth Copilot, since obtaining and understanding the information contained in the NASA database is currently more difficult for people who are not researchers or scientists.
“For many, finding and extracting information requires navigating technical interfaces, understanding data formats, and mastering the complexities of geospatial analysis – specialized skills that very few non-technical users possess,” said Tyler Bryson, corporate vice president of public sector industries and Microsoft health. he said in the announcement. “ai could speed up this process, reducing the time needed to obtain information from Earth data to a matter of seconds.
At this time, Earth Copilot is only available to NASA scientists and researchers, who will evaluate the tool's capabilities. They will then explore its integration into NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) platform, which already offers access to some of the agency's data.
