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Tomorrow is the big day! NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, managed by the The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will make history by sending the spacecraft closer to the Sun than ever before, reducing its orbit to just about 3.8 million miles from the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24th —an unprecedented achievement. We are thrilled that ParkerBot, powered by Navteca’s Voice Atlas, is there for every step of this journey to answer questions about the spacecraft and its closest-ever approach to the Sun. https://lnkd.in/eZJiDuXZ #JHUAPL | #ParkerSolarProbe | #SolarScience | #ConversationalAI | #SpaceTechnology | #NASA

This webinar will dive into critical information about destructive fast fires and will highlight some of our visualizations that help to tell the story of these devastating events. Thank you to Ralph Bloemers for including us in the PBS Weathered episode -- if you missed it: https://lnkd.in/eM4Us4Qq -- and for organizing this important conversation.

3% of fires are wind events with fire in them and these fast fires cause nearly 90% of home loss, with 80% occurring in grasslands & shrublands. Join us for a Webinar with top experts, including U.S. Fire Administrator, Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dr. Michael Falkowski, CU Boulder - Data Science’s Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab Director Dr. Jennifer Balch, and Navteca’s Shayna Solis as they discuss groundbreaking data about the dominant features of destructive fires and how this informs mitigations that matter. When: December 12th, 2024, 1 PST, 4 PM ET https://lnkd.in/eTcP4psM

We have several presentations today at the American Geophysical Union #AGUFallMeeting conference. Navteca team members are proud to contribute to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's open source and open science initiatives for Heliophysics and Space Weather through data engineering and cloud computing. If you are attending AGU, check out our contributions in poster sessions IN13B-2166 and IN13C-2176 #openscience #opensource https://lnkd.in/eEKqq6KZ

This week was the The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Innovation Summit in Washington DC at the beautiful American Red Cross headquarters. It was great to be back amongst colleagues after months quietly focusing on my health. Navteca was an event sponsor and we were delighted to donate the use of Voice Atlas, our responsible conversational AI tool. During several roundtable sessions led by Micah Brachman, session participants used AI from specific Voice Atlas knowledge bases to investigate problems and offer solutions around data interoperability and geospatial applications. I also presented alongside an illustrious panel, chaired by OGC’s Ingo Simonis, in a panel discussion entitled: Artificial Intelligence, Integrity, Provenance, and Trust. Panelists -Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Lucio Colaiacomo, myself, Anna Rubinstein, and Dave Cook - we all had unique perspectives, but consensus about the importance of these trust tenets for AI. In this era of rapid proliferation of AI tools and implementation, it’s nice to see organizations like OGC leading the way with content that highlights the importance of integrity, transparency, responsibility, and accountability for #AI.

Today marks the conclusion of an exciting three-day journey at Innovation Days DC! The final day featured an OGC API Training Workshop led by Micah Brachman, where participants engaged in practical exercises to explore how OGC APIs are revolutionizing geospatial data sharing and analysis while advancing FAIR data principles. Throughout Innovation Days, every session advanced OGC’s vision of building the future of location with community and technology for the good of society. Modernized, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) play a critical component of this vision. Highlights from the first two days: Day 1: Joshua Delmonico’s (Federal Geographic Data Committee) inspiring keynote set the tone, followed by insightful discussions on geospatial data modernization, climate change, and smart cities, and concluded with a collaborative roundtable on climate data interoperability. Day 2: Anna Rubinstein (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) delivered a compelling keynote, complemented by a panel exploring the impact of rapid AI adoption on the integrity, provenance, and trust in geospatial data. A second roundtable focused on AI applications, offering practical insights into integrating AI with SDIs. A heartfelt thank you to all speakers, participants, and organizers for making Innovation Days DC a resounding success! We are especially grateful to our sponsors and supporters—Esri, Hexagon AB, Safe Software, Google Maps, Inframappa, Inc., American Red Cross, and Navteca—for their invaluable support and leadership in driving geospatial innovation. #OGCStandards #FAIRData #Geospatial #Innovation #SDI #APIs #ClimateResilience #DisasterManagement #SmartCities

Navteca's thought leadership and immersive data visualization work for geospatial and scientific datasets have been featured by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on PreventionWeb, the knowledge sharing platform for disaster risk reduction; ‘Using emerging game technology for disaster risk reduction: A pilot study in Guatemala City’ outlines our collaboration with the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disasters Program, CEPREDENAC, MuniGuate, SALVETERRA, the UNDRR, and other stakeholders. This exciting project came together during the pandemic as our teams met virtually every week to envision a better way to interpret the multi-hazard risk assessment that had been done for la Ciudad de Guatemala. Our team provided immersive, 360 visualizations that helped Guatemala City and regional partners better understand that risk and they were even used in the emergency operations center as part of their regional earthquake simulation drill. Thank you to the PreventionWeb Editorial Team for this feature and for highlighting an international multidisciplinary effort to keep comunidades safer. https://lnkd.in/erRHb2sa #disasterriskreduction #understandingrisk #UNDRR #techforgood

We are proud to contribute to community standards for geospatial data and applications as keenness of The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

It has been a year since the devastating fires on County of Maui Hawaii. In the spirit of learning about what happened and preparing for future events, we have created a site where you can ask questions using Navteca‘s Voice Atlas, our conversational AI tool, and get answers from the Maui After Action Report. U.S. Fire Administration Western Fire Chiefs Association International Association of Wildland Fire #Maui #Firefighters #Wildfire #AI Try it out with your questions here: https://lnkd.in/eyvaTDvP

How can countries manage climate risk and become more resilient using AI? I had the honor of sharing some of Navteca ’s recent work with AI and XR for understanding and communicating risk at the The World Bank Group Risk Forum at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC. By using our Voice Atlas #conversationalAI platform, our in-country users can trust the multilingual AI-enabled answers that synthesize risk-related information from across the vetted knowledge base. #XR visualization adds yet another contextual layer to understand complex risk scenarios. What are some other lessons learned from your engagements with countries looking to improve their risk resilience?