The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence

Carmen Galaz García; Kenneth J. Bagstad; Julien Brun; Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Trevor Dhu; Nicholas J. Murray; Connor J. Nolan; Taylor H. Ricketts; Heidi M. Sosik; Daniel Sousa; Geoff Willard; Benjamin S. Halpern

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acab19

The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence

Carmen Galaz García, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Julien Brun, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Trevor Dhu, Nicholas J. Murray, Connor J. Nolan, Taylor H. Ricketts, Heidi M. Sosik, Daniel Sousa, Geoff Willard, Benjamin S. Halpern

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Original language	English (US)
Article number	011003
Journal	Environmental Research Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acab19
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by a gift from Microsoft (funding code 8-448755-17211-EC417). Heidi M Sosik gratefully acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation (Grant #561126). Support for Kenneth J Bagstad’s time was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Land Change Science Program.

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We thank Steven Brumby and Amy Luers for the fruitful discussions that supported this article. We thank the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for facilitating the authors’ work on this paper. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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cloud computing
ecological monitoring
ecosystem assessment
environmental data
global environmental goals
remote sensing

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Galaz García, C., Bagstad, K. J., Brun, J., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Dhu, T., Murray, N. J., Nolan, C. J., Ricketts, T. H., Sosik, H. M., Sousa, D., Willard, G., & Halpern, B. S. (2023). The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence. Environmental Research Letters, 18(1), Article 011003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acab19

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