1st Edition

On the Logics of Planetary Computing Artificial Intelligence and Geography in the Alas Mertajati

By Marc Böhlen Copyright 2025
228 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A new breed of low Earth orbit satellites is making planetary-scale observation and analysis ubiquitous. This book explores how this condition feeds spatially explicit artificial intelligence, GeoAI, in redefining the study of landscapes, and how it impacts one particular land dispute in the Alas Mertajati in Central Bali, Indonesia. This book combines scholarship from the humanities and... Read more

Introduction

 

1. From Orbit to Earth

 

2. Open space

 

3. The AI of GeoAI

 

< Intermezzo >

 

4. Planetary positions 

 

5. GeoAI in the Alas Mertajati

 

6. On Models and digital twins

 

7. Geohumanities 2.0

Biography

Marc Böhlen / RealTechSupport is an Artist-Engineer, a Professor of Art, and Affiliate Faculty in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University at Buffalo.