AI helps speed up ecological surveys
Scientists at NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and Wageningen University
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Scientists at NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and Wageningen University
The degree to which an individual takes interest in an outdoor activity—such as going for a run, hiking in the mountains, or paddleboarding—depends basically on the beauty of the immediate ecosystem.
The final prediction of landscape aesthetic quality for Great Britain produced by the Flickr and AI-based model. © 2021 Ilan Havinga To measure an
Researchers behind the algorithm to measure scenicness say it could have benefits for environmental conservation efforts.
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Red Cross team up to bolster humanitarian aid with science The Engineering Humanitarian Aid initiative, officially launched on 10 December 2020, will harness the expertise of Switzerland's two federal institutes of technology to benefit humanitarian aid programs. The effort will focus on the areas of energy and the environment, data sciences and digital technologies, and personalized health and related technologies. Photo: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Humanitarian aid organizations are now facing unprecedented challenges, which science and technol...