Deep learning in PAMGuard

Southern right whale picture by Brian Skerry The continued increase in the storage capacity and battery life of acoustic recorders is allowing industry and academia to collect passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data over ever larger spatial and temporal scales. With this glut of new data comes a problem – what do we do with all […]

Finding Illegal Fish Bomb Blasts in Tanzania using Machine Learning and JavaFX

Introduction Most research into wild marine mammals occurs in wealthy countries. Amazingly, in 2018, we have still have very little idea what species are present, let alone the population size / health status / behaviour, etc. in many parts of the world. A solid first step to address this problem is to conduct a rapid assessment […]