Geospatial Innovation for Food Security
Fields of the World
Features of the World
Benchmarks of the World
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.
Fields of the World
Fields of the world is an open ecosystem for agriculture field boundary detection — combining a global benchmark dataset, baseline ML models, inference tools, and web applications.
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.
Benchmarks of the World
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.
Open by design. Useful by default.
All benchmarks, training data, models, model weights and code will be released as digital public goods. Fields of The World, Features of The World, and Benchmarks of The World are structured so their outputs are available the moment they’re ready — not locked in journals or behind licensing agreements. The goal is an ecosystem where interoperability and usability are the norm, and the power of GeoAI can be deployed everywhere it is needed.