🚀Le-SINR combines millions of citizen science species observations with textual descriptions from Wikipedia, enabling zero-shot range estimation from text and facilitating the learning of rich spatial covariates at a global scale.

Low-dimensional projection of the learned features 👇

❓How can we predict where a species may be found when observations are limited?

✨Introducing Le-SINR: A text to range map model that can enable scientists to produce more accurate range maps with fewer observations.

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