Thijs van der Plas

Linking remote sensing, citizen science data and AI could transform environmental monitoring In our new paper, published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence, we provided a perspective on how three areas of science – remote sensing, citizen science, and machine learning (a form of AI) – could...

Great read from Michael Pocock: Linking remote sensing, citizen science data and AI could transform environmental monitoring | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

There is still lots of scope for further improvements; if that's of interest please don't hesitate to get in touch!

We combined sentinel-2 images and UKBMS butterfly occurrence records to predict butterfly species presence from satellite data. We developed a soft contrastive loss that acts as a regulariser and improves prediction accuracy.

Published last week at the CVPR FGVC Workshop; our paper on "Predicting butterfly species presence from satellite imagery using soft contrastive regularisation".

PDF (with links to data/code) available here:
openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR...

With @david-alexander.bsky.social

In our latest perspective article, we outline how ML can overcome 4 current obstacles for large-scale, high-resolution monitoring of protected areas.

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Hope this stimulates the conversation and provides a pathway of how ML research can be applied for monitoring PAs at scale.

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

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Hi, I'm using satellite data to predict species biodiversity! Could I be added please :) Thanks!

Mapping the Past Against the Present Past Landscapes, Present Discoveries: A Data Science Approach to Rediscovering Field Systems from Historic Ordnance Survey Maps

Using computer vision and #MapReader software, we analysed the loss of field boundaries across the #PeakDistrict Since the 1950s, the White Peak has seen a 12% reduction-551 km lost from an original 4,814 km. A stark reminder of landscape change 📊🌿 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5c89... #maps #GIS