Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

22Forward Thinking on GeoAI

Shawn Newsam

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced

DOI: 10.1201/9781003308423-22

CONTENTS

• 22.1 A Simple Knowledge Retrieval Scenario

• 22.2 Continued Interaction between Communities

• 22.3 The Challenges of (Rewarding) Interdisciplinary Research

• 22.4 The Role of Industry

• 22.5 Opportunities

  1. 22.5.1 Location as a Key for Unsupervised Training

  2. 22.5.2 Mutli-Modal Foundational Models

  3. 22.5.3 Spatial Turing Tests for GeoAI Models

• 22.6 Interesting Recent Developments in Generative Modeling

• 22.7 Closing Remarks

  1. Bibliography

22.1 A SIMPLE KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL SCENARIO

Entering “How long is the coast of Italy” into Google search¹ at the time of writing results in the following ...