Forest Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (FACAI)

About Us

About Us

FACAI group

FACAI harnesses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and global resources to conduct globally consistent yet locally relevant research on forest ecosystems. We're proud of our groundbreaking achievements, such as discovering the number of...

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Global Data

Global Data

GFI-2D

FACAI is leading the compilation of the largest global in situ (ground-sourced) forest inventory database, which currently consists of 1.5 million sample plots.

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Global Connection

Global Connection

Science-i

FACAI is servicing Science-i, a global research metaverse that accelerates scientific discoveries with AI, big data, and global connection. We are working with hundreds of renowned scientists and community leaders from around the world.

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All Hail Purdue!

Jingging Liang
Purdue forestry professor cultivates cyberinfrastructure for collaborative forestry research

While most scientific research fields maintain open-access data policies, access to forestry data...

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This region of northeastern China was a sandy desert 50 years ago. Today the region contains hundreds of thousands of acres of forests.
Study improves accuracy of planted forest locations in East Asia

An international team led by Purdue University scientists has created the first spatial database...

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Dr. Jing Jing Liang with computer servers.
Future of AI in Natural Resource Management: Self-Learning Forest Growth Model

Whether we realize it or not, artificial intelligence—AI—plays a big role in our...

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Man sitting high up in a tree, strapped in.
Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World...

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Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative contributing research team, led by Ferry Slik (far right), collects field data on local species richness in Brunei.
Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness

Local species richness, the number of species that coexist in a local community, is a key measure...

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Trees in the forest during Fall season, view from above
First-of-its-kind estimate of the total number of tree species

One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a...

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