Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change Workshop Series: Amy Braverman

Kleinman Center Energy Forum (Fisher Fine Arts Building, 4th Floor)

Co-sponsored by the Warren Center

October 31, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

This event is part of the 2023-2024 Workshop Series, AI and Climate Change: Global Sustainability in an Era of Artificial Intelligence, organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Environmental Innovations Initiative, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and Wharton Climate Center. Dr. Amy Braverman, Principal Statistician at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the featured speaker.

In this workshop, Dr. Amy Braverman will consider the role of AI in addressing climate change through the lens of the most comprehensive data resource for understanding climatic change: satellite data. Satellites have been observing the Earth for more than 50 years (LandSat) and provide a massive, distributed global archive of information. In the United States, most of these data are provided by NASA and NOAA, but other space agencies, such as those in Europe, Japan, and India, also have robust data collection programs. Braverman will show why it is important to understand how these are collected and processed. Crucially, because all geophysical data derived from satellites are inferences based on observed spectra, they are subject to uncertainties. Braverman will explain why quantifying these uncertainties is critical if informed decisions are to be made in response to climate change.

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