On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications

G Mai, K Janowicz, Y Hu, S Gao, B Yan… - International Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A common need for artificial intelligence models in the broader geoscience is to
encode various types of spatial data, such as points, polylines, polygons, graphs, or rasters …

Csp: Self-supervised contrastive spatial pre-training for geospatial-visual representations

G Mai, N Lao, Y He, J Song… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Geo-tagged images are publicly available in large quantities, whereas labels such as object
classes are rather scarce and expensive to collect. Meanwhile, contrastive learning has …

Sphere2Vec: A general-purpose location representation learning over a spherical surface for large-scale geospatial predictions

G Mai, Y Xuan, W Zuo, Y He, J Song, S Ermon… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Generating learning-friendly representations for points in space is a fundamental and long-
standing problem in machine learning. Recently, multi-scale encoding schemes (such as …

Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper)

G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, Y Hu, N Lao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

[PDF][PDF] Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning.

G Mai, Y Hu, S Gao, L Cai, B Martins, J Scholz… - Trans …, 2022 - geography.wisc.edu
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be roughly divided into two branches: Symbolic
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionist Artificial Intelligence (or so-called Subsymbolic AI) …

The challenges of integrating explainable artificial intelligence into GeoAI

J Xing, R Sieber - Transactions in GIS, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) promises considerable progress in
glassboxing deep learning models, there are challenges in applying XAI to geospatial …

Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries

G Mai, C Jiang, W Sun, R Zhu, Y Xuan, L Cai… - GeoInformatica, 2023 - Springer
Neural network representation learning for spatial data (eg, points, polylines, polygons, and
networks) is a common need for geographic artificial intelligence (GeoAI) problems. In …

Agi for agriculture

G Lu, S Li, G Mai, J Sun, D Zhu, L Chai, H Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is poised to revolutionize a variety of sectors, including
healthcare, finance, transportation, and education. Within healthcare, AGI is being utilized to …

Geographic question answering: challenges, uniqueness, classification, and future directions

G Mai, K Janowicz, R Zhu, L Cai… - AGILE: GIScience …, 2021 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
As an important part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Question Answering (QA) aims at
generating answers to questions phrased in natural language. While there has been …