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Taylor Geospatial supports AI-driven geospatial initiatives that address critical global challenges through partnership and innovation. Our work democratizes access to advanced geospatial technology while building capacity across academia and industry.

Satellite image showing a dark body of water surrounded by mountainous desert terrain, with a patchwork of green and brown agricultural fields at the edge of the water, under reddish lighting.
A person wearing a hat works in a lush green rice field, surrounded by trees, with tall mountains and a blue sky in the background.

Geospatial Innovation for Food Security

The Geospatial Innovation for Food Security (GIFS) Challenge promotes advanced research in three critical food systems problem spaces: enabling agri-food supply chain resilience, informing crop shifting, and increasing nitrogen use efficiency.
Aerial view of a landscape with patchwork fields in various shades of green and brown, intersected by a winding dirt road, with hills and forests in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Fields of The World

Fields of The World is an open ecosystem for agricultural field boundary detection — combining a global benchmark dataset, baseline ML models, inference tools, and web applications.
Aerial view of a densely packed residential area with red-roofed houses, narrow streets, and patches of green trees scattered throughout the neighborhood.

Coming Soon: Features of the World

Through our Fields of The World effort, we proved that we can map agricultural field boundaries globally. Next we plan to explore how the FTW ecosystem can be adapted to map additional infrastructure at global scale.
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Coming Soon: Benchmarking

Geospatial foundation models are proliferating faster than tools to evaluate their performance. We’re developing a coalition to establish a framework that will enable practitioners to choose the right model for their mission.