Ecology & environment - Microsoft Research

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GeoAI Agency Primitives

Akram Zaytar, Rohan Sawahn, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, I. Becker-Reshef, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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Role of Plant Nanotechnology in Water Pollution

Harshita Sharma

Progress in the Environmental and Ecological Impact of Nanobiotechnology in Plant System | Published by Spinger Nature | 2026

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Machine Learning for Sustainable Rice Production: Region-Scale Monitoring of Water-Saving Practices in Punjab, India

Ando Shah, Rajveer Singh, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Negar Tafti, Stephen A. Wood, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) | March 2026

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Mirror in the Sky: Democratizing Continent-Scale IoT Connectivity via Amateur Satellites

Jacqueline M. Schellberg, S. Jog, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Krishna Chintalapudi, B. Priyantha, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

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SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond

Nazish Naeem, Peder Olsen, Vaishnavi Ranganathan

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

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Materials are Mission Critical to the Sustainability Transition: Accelerating Discovery of Materials for Sustainability

Bichlien Nguyen

THE VEOLIA INSTITUTE AND MICROSOFT: AI for Energy, Water, and Waste Management | February 2026

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SPARROW, developed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, is an AI-powered edge computing solution designed to monitor and protect wildlife in the most remote regions of the world. Solar-powered and equipped with advanced sensors, it collects biodiversity…

GitHub

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Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Operational Flood Forecasting

Zac McEachran, Rahul Ghosh, Arvind Renganathan, Somya Chatterjee, Kelly Lindsay, M. Steinbach, John Nieber, Christopher J. Duffy, Vipin Kumar

Water Resources Research | October 2025

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Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Amy Luers

October 2025

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Towards Automated Petrography

Isai Daniel Chacon, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Jillian Pearse, Pablo Arbelaez

NeurIPS 2025 | October 2025