In 1992, Polish forests were facing unprecedented levels of death amongst European ash. Ecologists were discovering trees with wilting black leaves and dark lesions growing on their bark. 14 years later researchers revealed the culprit — a fungus of Asian
At the start of 2020 we didn’t know if it would be possible to collect images of the required quality for an AI based approach to work. What we’ve found is that, yes, it can work. We built a system
As the majority of us look to 2021 and hope for a better year, it’s easy to look back at 2020 and only remember what went wrong.
First run of vehicle and camera system for collecting footage and generating training data.
A trial to see whether or not AI can be used to detect the presence of invasive non-native species has started. Dr Tom August from UKCEH and Amjad Karim from Keen AI discuss how it will work and its benefits.
Keen AI, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Time-Lapse Systems are using their expertise in machine vision, environmental research and image capture to help identify invasive plant species in the UK.
