Advancing human security
ORNL is the nation’s geospatial research laboratory. Our scientists and engineers are breaking new ground in geospatial science and technologies, advancing the state-of-the-art and scaling science for global impacts. From designing advanced sensing platforms and autonomous systems, to characterizing global population risk with increasing spatiotemporal clarity, to designing geoAI models for supercomputer-scale applications, geospatial science at ORNL is establishing new horizons for global geospatial intelligence and human security.
Unlocking Insights, Transforming Decisions
Unlocking Insights, Transforming Decisions
We are leading research in GeoAI, remote sensing, resilient communications, and autonomous systems. We derive value for government decision makers by developing game-changing technology.
Understanding impacts to populations
Understanding impacts to populations
We develop data, models, and computational approaches to observe and measure digital traces to provide insights into human activities and interactions with the environment from local to planetary scales.