Focus on life below water

We used AI and satellite imagery to map ocean activities that take place out of sight, including fishing, shipping and energy development

The Conversation 25 Jan 2024

A study combines satellite images, vessel GPS data and AI to reveal human industrial activities across the ocean

Deep learning model to help detect plastic in oceans

EPFL 15 Dec 2023

Researchers present a model that recognises floating plastics in satellite images. This could help to systematically remove plastic litter from the oceans with ships.

Beach bots, sea ‘raptors’ and marine toolsets mobilised to get rid of marine litter

Horizon 18 Feb 2022

Find out about the different EU research projects are concerned with reducing marine litter, including an autonomous litter-picking robot.

Life below water focus series round-up: ocean ecosystems, marine litter and autonomous vehicles

Lucy Smith 17 Sep 2021

We summarise our focus series and highlight further interesting research in the field.

AI in port and maritime research

Universiteit Leiden 07 Jun 2021

Three researchers from The Netherlands explain their work.

Understanding the oceans and climate change – the OcéanIA project and Tara expedition

Lucy Smith 27 May 2021

Find out about an expedition to collect data from the oceans.

Interview with Nayat Sánchez-Pi – how the OcéanIA project is advancing our understanding of the oceans and our climate

Lucy Smith 13 May 2021

The Director of Inria Chile tells us about her research into the relationship between the oceans and climate change using AI and mathematical modeling.

Detection of marine litter using deep learning

Lucy Smith 07 Apr 2021

Understanding the problem of plastics in the oceans.

AIhub launches focus series on life below water

AIhub 07 Apr 2021

As part of our ongoing focus on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), we are launching the next topic in this series: life below water. Posts on this topic will be featured on our website throu...