AI Tool to Tackle Boulder Issues for Offshore Wind Developments
Renewable energy industry supplier Ocean Geophysics has introduced an AI-driven boulder identification tool, which is expected to reduce development risk, time and cost for developers of offshore wind farms.Large, individual boulders as well as boulder fields with thousands, sometimes millions of smaller boulders pose a big challenge for the planning of offshore wind farms and cable routes. An analysis of the seabed is a prerequisite prior to any construction work.Side-scan sonar – a system for detecting objects on the seafloor – is commonly used to identify boulders on the seabed. This
CSIRO Deploys World-First Sensors in Great Barrier Reef
, which can be indicative of a potential harmful algal bloom,” said Held. "Harmful algal blooms can be devastating for marine ecosystems when they produce toxins that can cause health problems and even kill fish."Dr Nagur Cherukuru, a senior CSIRO researcher, said modelling and artificial intelligence (AI) would be applied to the combined sensor and satellite data set to predict the sediment flows – ultimately identifying certain areas of the river where interventions can be made. “The modelling and AI will integrate not only the AquaWatch sensor data, but other factors like
How AI Can Aid Coastal Water Quality Monitoring
Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) are investigating improvements to cost effective real-time marine water quality monitoring solutions, using AI modelling to help visualize and predict events.With the aim of improving predictions for high coliform events OSIL have manufactured and deployed a self-contained 1.2m Tern data buoy platform equipped with multiparameter water quality instrumentation, met sensors and GSM data telemetry system. The buoy is monitoring local conditions for a range of parameters including coliforms, providing feedback on sedimentation, low oxygen levels, excess nutrients
Greensea Launches OPENSEA Edge
Designed for military use but now available commercially, OPENSEA Edge is designed to be a modular edge computing module with perception support for autonomous underwater robots based on Greensea’s OPENSEA open architecture software platform, advancing ocean robotics into the next generation.Greensea launched its latest product which the company says promises to bring true autonomy to ocean robotics.Based on Greensea’s open architecture platform OPENSEA, OPENSEA Edge offers the next level of operator capability. While OPENSEA provides the software capabilities of navigation, control
How AI Can Help Protect the Oceans
You’ve seen the art AI image generators can create, and you may have played with natural language AI chatbots. You’ve benefited from artificial intelligence tools recommending you music and suggesting your next streaming show.But AI can do much more. Humans are excellent at spotting patterns. It’s why we see faces on Mars or in the clouds. But in some areas, AI is even better. Give one of these tools a million photographs and ask it to spot telltale signs – and it can. AI can enable research at scales previously impossible.We’ve used AI’s exceptional pattern recogniti
Floating Plastic Litter Detected, Categorized Using AI
health. To support efforts to mitigate the issue it is vital that marine plastic can be monitored effectively, however this is challenging given the scale, complexity and time required to do so manually.As such, a team of scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory have ‘trained’ an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to recognize and classify the different types of marine plastic captured in images shot by a video camera mounted on the side of a boat.Funded by the PML internal research program and the European Space Agency (ESA), the innovative study - titled “Detection and Classification
Sea Machines Debuts AI-ris Computer Vision for Commercial Vessels
Marine perception sensor aims to provide high-def situational awareness to eliminate at-sea collisions and allisionsSea Machines Robotics unveiled AI-ris (Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Identification System), a new marine computer-vision navigation sensor designed to improve safety and performance while vessels are underway. Sea Machines’ AI-ris uses digital cameras and AI-processing to detect, track, classify and geolocate objects, vessel traffic and other potential obstacles in the majority of operational conditions, day or night. Computer vision helps improve safety for vessels
AI Set to Tackle Jetty and Port Corrosion Across WA
A team of researchers led by Curtin University have joined forces to develop an artificial intelligence tool to improve the maintenance of marine structures such as jetties and ports impacted by corrosion.The joint project, led by the Curtin Corrosion Center, has received funding from SmartCrete CRC to deploy the new monitoring tool and to look at better ways to repair ageing marine structures built with commonly used engineering materials such as reinforced concrete.Lead researcher Dr Mobin Salasi, from the Curtin Corrosion Center, said marine structures commonly corrode due to their exposure to
Force Technology Debuts SimFlex Cloud Navigation Simulator Platform
Denmark's Force Technology launched SimFlex Cloud, a dedicated SaaS (Software as a Service) solution designed to offer realistic navigation training by providing global access to Force’s SimFlex simulator and the Den-Mark simulator engine and model library.Developed in-house with 25 years of navigation simulator innovation and experience at its core, SimFlex Cloud builds on the teaching value of Force Technology’s high-fidelity navigation simulators. As a cloud-based training solution, SimFlex also offers easy access to next-generation mixed reality simulation, using both Virtual
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