GIScience Colloquium The Science of GeoAI: Predictability, Explainability, and Reproducibility

AI, especially deep learning, has transformed many science and engineering disciplines because of its outstanding capabilities in learning and extracting patterns and knowledge in a data-driven manner. Geography is an ideal domain to extensively apply and further boost AI research because of its vast availability of diverse geospatial data, intriguing and complex human-environmental interactions, as well as its central role in enabling location-based analysis. In less than a decade, we have witnessed a rapidly growing interest and progress of GeoAI research – the transdisciplinary expansion of AI in geography and its sibling domains in urban, environmental, and social sciences.