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

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

25 January 2024, by The Conversation

Deep learning model to help detect plastic in oceans

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

15 December 2023, by EPFL

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

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

18 February 2022, by Horizon

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

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

17 September 2021, by Lucy Smith

AI in port and maritime research

Three researchers from The Netherlands explain their work.

07 June 2021, by Universiteit Leiden

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

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

27 May 2021, by Lucy Smith

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

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

13 May 2021, by Lucy Smith

Detection of marine litter using deep learning

Understanding the problem of plastics in the oceans.

07 April 2021, by Lucy Smith

AIhub launches focus series on life below water

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...

07 April 2021, by AIhub