TGI’s Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Program is building a community to find out. Read on to learn about TGI’s growing community focused on Food Security and the upcoming publication of the Call For Proposals - week of May 19, 2025. Putting the right amount...
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What If Becomes What’s Next: Inside the TGI-AWS GeoAI Challenge
What if you could stand outside a building and instantly know its emissions profile? What if your smart assistant not only told you what you’re looking at, but also knew where you were standing – and why it mattered? What if old geological records, long buried in PDF...
Unlocking the Power of AI in Geospatial Technology
Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to drive innovation through its Generative AI Challenge. On March 6, 2025, TGI hosted its latest GeoAI Working Group meeting, which highlighted yet another round of practical applications of...
How Geospatial Innovation Can Reduce Food Waste and Improve Access to Nutrition
From left: Nishesh Chalise, Dr. Meghan O’Hearn, Dr. Rachel Opitz, Sara Burnett, and Rhiannan Price. Every year, around 1.3 billion tons of food – nearly a third of total global food production – goes to waste (FAO). At the same time, 733 million people faced hunger in...
How Can Geospatial Innovation Promote Sustainable Agricultural Land Management?
From left: Dr. Rachel Opitz, Dr. Steven Singer, Dr. Hamed Alemohammad, and Chad Zimmerman. Despite the world’s agricultural systems producing enough food to feed the current population, global food insecurity remains a critical challenge. The scale of the gap remains...
Joe Cornelius Advocates Geospatial Innovation to Tackle Food Insecurity
As climate change, demographic shifts, and socio-economic instability increase pressure on our food systems, geospatial technologies continue to be critical tools for shaping the future of agriculture. The Taylor Geospatial Institute, through its Geospatial Innovation...
The Future of Geospatial AI is Here – And It’s Just Getting Started
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer on the horizon for geospatial technology – it’s here, transforming how industries operate. From urban planning to disaster response, AI is making geospatial data faster to process, easier to analyze, and more actionable than...
Transforming Agriculture in Latin America with Geospatial Innovation
TGI invited Tomás Peña, Managing Director of The Yield Lab LATAM, to share his thoughts on how the push to improve productivity and sustainability in Latin America’s food and agriculture sector creates new opportunities for geospatial innovators. His talk at the...
Taylor Geospatial Institute & AWS Announce Winners of Generative AI for Geospatial Challenge
Twelve teams led by innovators from industry and academia will receive a total of $1 million in AWS credits to advance cutting-edge geospatial generative AI projects St. Louis, MO — The Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today unveiled a...
Taylor Geospatial Institute Announces Next Round of Planet Fellowship Program
Researchers using Earth observation data at eight institutions are encouraged to apply St. Louis, MO — The Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) is pleased to announce a new round of its Planet Fellowship program, aimed at advancing innovative research using Earth...
TGI Challenge: Harnessing Geospatial Innovation for a more food secure future
TGI is launching the Geospatial Innovation The Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge to bring together experts and practitioners to leverage cutting-edge geospatial technologies to strengthen our global food systems. Learn about collaboration and funding...
TGI is proud to join the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum
We’re excited to announce that the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) has joined the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum (CNG). CNG promotes cloud-based, collaborative approaches to geospatial data, making it more accessible, scalable, and cost-effective. TGI’s investment in...