Mission to Planet Earth: AI views the world

In the late 1990s, NASA will launch a series of satellites to study the Earth as a dynamic system. The enormous size and complexity of the resulting data holdings pose several challenges and promise to test the limits of practical AI techniques.

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Published inIEEE expert Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 24 - 34
Main Authors Short, N.M., Cromp, R.F., Campbell, W.J., Tilton, J.C., LeMoigne, J.J., Fekete, G., Netanyahu, N.S., Wichmann, K., Ligon, W.B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.1995
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Computer applications
Earth Observing System
Earth sciences
Electronic switching systems
Geoscience
Mission to Planet Earth, NASA
Ocean temperature
Planets
Remote sensing
Satellite images
Satellites
Space missions
Temperature sensors
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Summary:In the late 1990s, NASA will launch a series of satellites to study the Earth as a dynamic system. The enormous size and complexity of the resulting data holdings pose several challenges and promise to test the limits of practical AI techniques.
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ISSN:0885-9000
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DOI:10.1109/64.483009