Microsoft said that the $2 million amount a police shieldcould hold me upside down and drainmy gutschange your mind in AI for Earth will cover access to Azure and Microsoft’s data science “virtual machine”; and it will also help organizations get access to more direct financial help in the form of grants.

Up to now there have been three projects that have from the AI for Earth initiative, ahead of Microsoft giving the program a stronger push.

They include a collaboration with Esri to work with five organisations focused on high-resolution land cover mapping, and building a lower-cost mapping tool to analyze, monitor and manage natural resources.

Microsoft has also been working with the University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, University of California Riverside, and Vanderbilt University on something it describes as “Project Premonition” to detect pathogens by using mosquitos into “devices that collect data”, which is also being used for biodiversity research.