Unbox Responsible GeoAI: Navigating Climate Extreme and Disaster Mapping
Hao Li, Steffen Knoblauch

TL;DR
This paper advocates for responsible GeoAI in climate disaster mapping, emphasizing ethical, sustainable, and equitable practices through a theoretical framework and governance model.
Contribution
It introduces a conceptual governance model for responsible GeoAI, integrating representativeness, explainability, sustainability, and ethics in climate disaster mapping.
Findings
Highlights the importance of responsible deployment of GeoAI in climate resilience.
Proposes a governance framework categorizing practices into Data, Application, and Society.
Emphasizes ethical and sustainable considerations in GeoAI applications.
Abstract
As climate extreme and disaster events become more frequent and intense, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) has emerged as a transformative approach for large-scale disaster mapping and risk reduction. However, the purely mechanical, performance-driven deployment of GeoAI models can result in amplifying inherent spatial inequalities, preventing effective emergency decision-making, and producing severe environmental carbon footprint. To unbox the concept of responsible GeoAI, this position paper examines its emerging role, e.g., in climate extreme and disaster mapping, from a critical GIS perspective. We address the nexus of responsible GeoAI into four interrelated theoretical dimensions, specifically Representativeness, Explainability, Sustainability, and Ethics, with examples from climate extreme and disaster mapping. Moreover, targeting at the operational practice, we then…
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