Manteo AI: Making Earth Observation Workflows More Intuitive

Please join us for this Climate Coffee!

Working with Earth observation and remote sensing data is often a labour-intensive process. From identifying appropriate data sources and handling heterogeneous raster and vector formats to cleaning, transforming, and applying machine learning methods, each step requires significant expertise and infrastructure. These hurdles can slow scientific progress and limit the accessibility of advanced geospatial analysis.

In this talk, we present the development of Manteo AI, a system designed to lower these barriers by integrating state-of-the-art research from data systems, remote sensing, and Earth observation, as well as artificial intelligence, particularly large language models. At its core, Manteo offers an interactive “chat map” interface, allowing practitioners to explore geospatial datasets through natural language queries and receive dynamic, visual responses in the form of maps, plots, and dashboards. As part of our roadmap, we also plan a community-driven model hub for Earth observation, where domain-specific models can be shared and seamlessly integrated into workflows. We invite practitioners to share their experiences and bottlenecks, so we can explore together how such cross-disciplinary methods might support more efficient and inclusive geospatial research.

Our speaker

Ioannis Prapas is specialised in Deep Learning for Earth Observation, Haralampos (Harry) Gavriilidis is a Data Systems Researcher. They recently won the Cassini Prize for digital space applications and are now backed by the ESA BIC Greece accelerator. They are co-founders of manteo.ai

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