Focus on life on land

Long-term monitoring of bird flocks in the wild – interview with Kshitiz

Developing and applying computer vision techniques and datasets for non-invasive monitoring and analysis of migratory bird flocks in their natural habitats.

08 February 2024, by Lucy Smith

World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them

How AI methods are helping shed light on bat numbers.

20 October 2023, by The Conversation

Which strategies for supporting pollinators?

How can Bayesian Networks be used to inform pollinator abundance strategies?

26 September 2023, by Martine Barons

Studying plant-climate relationships using machine learning

Machine learning can help extract important information from the huge number of plant specimens stored in herbaria.

19 July 2023, by University of New South Wales

AI-powered BirdNET app makes citizen science easier

The team behind BirdNET have published a paper about their work and what it means for citizen science.

13 July 2022, by Cornell University

Artificial intelligence and big data to help preserve wildlife

Research collaborators propose that animal ecologists can capitalize on large datasets generated by modern sensors by combining machine learning approaches with domain knowledge.

25 February 2022, by EPFL

Artificial intelligence helps speed up ecological surveys

A deep-learning model for counting the number of seals in aerial photos that is considerably faster than doing it by hand.

24 January 2022, by EPFL

Using imaging and machine learning tools to analyse features of plant leaves

Scientists have developed tools to discover attributes that contribute to water-use efficiency in crop plants during photosynthesis.

29 October 2021, by University of Illinois

Interview with Lily Xu – applying machine learning to the prevention of illegal wildlife poaching

Lily Xu tells us about her work applying machine learning and game theory to wildlife conservation.

20 October 2021, by Lucy Smith

What bird is singing? Merlin Bird ID app offers instant answers

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s free Merlin Bird ID app can identify bird sounds.

19 October 2021, by Cornell University

Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges

Using photographs and computer vision techniques to automatically detect the presence of bats on bridges.

12 October 2021, by The Conversation

New digital tools to track illegal wildlife trade online

Using data from social media platforms in combination with machine learning methods to identify what species and wildlife products are traded online and what are the motives behind the trade.

07 October 2021, by Horizon

AI tools for assessing zero-deforestation commitments in Vietnam

The Coffee Vision project is developing a smart monitoring tool to support the certification of sustainable coffee plots in Vietnam.

06 October 2021, by Louis Reymondin and Andres Perez-Uribe

AIhub launches focus series on life on land

We are now publishing articles on the latest topic in our series on the UN sustainable development goals.

06 October 2021, by AIhub