Following a successful prototype, Microsoft will be delivering a new artificial intelligence tool to the U.S. government that uses historic hydrology data to help a diverse set of users understand and predict trends in Earth\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n
The final version of Microsoft and NASA\u2019s Earth Copilot is set to be deployed as a multi-AI agent software that can distill complex data on the planet\u2019s water patterns to observe current and future changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of Earth Copilot\u2019s most critical functions is its user-friendly interface to help those without a strictly technical background access and understand hydraulic data with plain-language queries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe copilot interprets the question, identifies the relevant hydrologic variables, retrieves\u00a0authoritative explanations, runs the necessary geospatial queries, and presents results as maps, charts, and clear narrative descriptions,\u201d Microsoft\u2019s announcement reads. \u201cIt feels less like searching a database and more like collaborating with a hydrologist who understands both the science and the user\u2019s intent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earth Copilot uses the North American Land Data Assimilation System Version 3, or NLDAS-3, as its core data. The AI agents wrangling this data exist within Microsoft\u2019s Azure OpenAI partnership and the Microsoft Foundry platform that hosts multiple large language models for customization.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis partnership marks an important step toward democratizing access to Earth science and equipping communities with the insights they need to prepare for the future,\u201d the Microsoft press release said. \u201cBut it is only the beginning. As AI and cloud technologies advance, so too will our ability to\u00a0transform scientific data into meaningful action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a successful prototype, Microsoft will be delivering a new artificial intelligence tool to the U.S. government that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105931,61,60,1071,91,80],"class_list":["post-199902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-earth-copilot","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-nasa","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}