AI Helping the Environment

At Xyonix, we use cutting edge AI to rapidly and repeatedly deliver you insights from your environmental data

It’s time to turn to machine learning and AI to find a solution to the environmental crisis we find ourselves in. From biodiversity loss to increased emissions of fossil fuels, it’s no surprise the world is experiencing some catastrophic changes. At the same time, new and emerging organizations like yours are creating groundbreaking solutions to combat these environmental setbacks.

Eventually, every industry will be impacted by the environmental disasters we hear about in the news. Leverage AI to help your product enable more efficiencies in your quest to improve the world. Now is the time to use AI for Good with Xyonix.

Some example AI uses

Predict Emissions

AI can be used to predict future emissions of a company or region. Using this forecasting feature can help government policymakers plan emissions output targets to reduce future output.

water pollution Aerial Imagery Analysis

Satellite imagery can be used in AI systems to look for high concentrations of plastic in our oceans. This knowledge allows for an efficient approach to cleaning up larger concentrations of trash.

locate pollution sources

Machine-based algorithms are used to identify and stop sewage leaks from happening. AI can be trained to monitor water output and recognize when a spill is happening.

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“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.”

— Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Want to dig deeper? Check out some of our articles:

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Using AI To Optimize Mechanical Carbon Capture & Storage Systems

Since the first oil well was dug in 1859, we have been extracting carbon from the ground and pumping it into our atmosphere. Similar to the hundreds of thousands of oil wells around the world, what if we had many CCS systems capturing carbon, often in the form of oil, and injecting it back into the ground?

Using AI to Identify Plastic Pollution and Expedite Ocean Cleanup

There is strong demand from governments, environmentalists, and citizens alike to keep our oceans clean and preserve the biodiversity and critical services they provide to life on Earth. Many emerging companies and organizations are changing the landscape of ocean conservation by developing innovative AI monitoring techniques and robotic technologies to identify pollution in our oceans and waterways and provide an expedited approach to cleaning it up.

Improving Carbon Sequestration, Part 2: Organizations Using AI to Monitor Deforestation & Improve Decisions

Illegal logging is an environmental and economic loss for tropical regions like the Amazon. Illegal logging is associated with billions of dollars of lost revenue each year in addition to depressed timber prices, yet effective strategies to curb illegal deforestation are hard to find. Harnessing AI serves as a promising innovation for enhancing the accuracy of forest monitoring, with the potential to be adapted to the Amazon basin and other tropical regions.

Improving Carbon Sequestration, Part 1: Leveraging AI to Better Map and Monitor Stocks

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the shocking imagery of Australia, the western United States, Europe, and the Amazon rainforest engulfed in flames, the unprecedented intensity, duration, and extent of the fires inflicting irreversible damage on countries, economies, ecosystems, and the atmosphere. Managing and conserving forest resources remains a top priority, but mapping and monitoring global forests are crucial to understanding how to properly manage and protect them, especially in monitoring wildfires and illegal deforestation, as well as knowing which forests to prioritize preserving. Identifying and monitoring forests with strong conservation value and high carbon stock is also a huge leverage point for targeted intervention of Artificial Intelligence.

Using AI to Fight Wildfires -- Prevention, Detection, & Monitoring with Computer Vision

In a world overshadowed by the rapid deterioration of its climate, AI engineers are beginning to apply machine learning technology to issues of environmental justice and crisis. In California, where wildfires have ravaged over 570,000 acres of land and forced 41,000 evacuations already this summer, AI is being used to prevent and monitor forest fires throughout the state.

Predicting Covid-19 like the Weather, Using AI to Harness a Network of Health Sensors

The national weather service operates a massive sensor array including sensors located on weather balloons, in airplanes, on land, in sea buoys, and from satellites. Just like a confluence of variables can indicate a hurricane is on the way, we believe an infectious disease forecasting service powered by AI can predict the likelihood of a new wave of C19 and other infectious diseases.

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