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Scientists in China studied the genetics of multiple pandas in the wild and in captivity to understand why some pandas have a brown-and-white coat.

In their research, associate professor from the NRS Department Tiejun Wang and his master's student Zijing Wu developed an AI-model to automatically locate and count large herds of migratory ungulates (wildebeest and zebra). They used their method in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem using fine-resolution (38–50 cm) satellite imagery.

Counting elephants from space? That’s the aim of the project. To do so, earth-observation satellites and a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as machine learning are being deployed. How so? Researchers are using the highest resolution satellite images currently available, which are processed and analysed automatically by a computer algorithm that has been trained with more than 1,000 images of elephants to help spot elephants in the wild. The AI involvement means the creatures c...

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations Elephants Counted from Space with Algorithms and Satellite Cameras For the first time, scientists have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with deep learning to count animals in complex geographical landscapes, taking conservationists an important step forward in monitoring populations of endangered species. Elephants in woodland as seen from space. Green rectangles show elephants detected by the algorithm, red rectangles show elephants verified by h...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Elephants in woodland as seen from space. Green rectangles show elephants detected by the algorithm, red rectangles show elephants verified by humans. view more  Credit: Satellite image (c) 2020 Maxar Technologies Editors Note: In the fifth graf, the number of African savannah elephants left in the wild was updated to 415,000. For the first time, scientists have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with deep learning to count animals in complex geographical lands...