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Open Call 01 Agentic Spatial Intelligence

Bring agentic AI into real spatial research workflows.

Research Challenge

From task assistance to workflow execution

How can agentic AI move from assisting with individual tasks to understanding, planning and executing complete spatial research workflows across data, models, software and evidence?

Current AI tools help researchers with isolated steps — writing code, answering questions, summarizing papers. But spatial research workflows involve chained multi-tool execution: acquiring imagery, processing rasters, running models, comparing results, generating maps, validating against ground truth, and producing reproducible outputs.

This call seeks research that explores how autonomous agents can orchestrate these complete workflows rather than merely assisting with fragments.

Disciplines

Who Should Apply

Researchers working across spatial disciplines who want to explore agentic AI in their domain.

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GIS / Geoinformatics

Spatial data science, analysis, geoprocessing workflows.

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Remote Sensing

Earth observation, satellite imagery, change detection.

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AI / Autonomy

Agentic systems, multi-step reasoning, tool orchestration.

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Urban / Regional Planning

City analytics, infrastructure, land use.

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Digital Twins

Spatial twins, IoT integration, 3D modelling.

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Scientific Computing

HPC, simulation, numerical methods in geoscience.

What Nebula Cloud Contributes

  • Nebula Cloud Studio access (AI engineering platform)
  • Spatial Intelligence Workbench (QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, Python)
  • GPU/HPC compute for research workloads
  • Engineering collaboration and technical support
  • Capability Pack access (domain tools and models)
  • Experimentation and reproducibility infrastructure

What You Contribute

  • Domain expertise in spatial/geospatial research
  • Research question and methodology
  • Representative datasets (own or open)
  • Experiment design and execution
  • Results documentation and analysis
  • Willingness to publish findings openly

Lifecycle

From Research to Platform Capability

Promising research from collaboration calls can become operational capabilities within Nebula Cloud Studio, Workbenches, and Capability Packs.

Research Experiment Validate Demonstrate Operationalize

Context

Building on Active Research

This call connects to active Nebula Cloud Labs research programs that demonstrate the kind of spatial-AI workflow execution we want to explore more broadly:

Example Research Directions

We welcome proposals across these and related tracks:

These are example directions, not constraints. We are interested in any research where autonomous agents can improve spatial research workflows.

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