Location: New Zealand
Topics include: Marine Life
Spyfish Aotearoa is a newly launched collaboration between DOC and Wildlife.AI, a charitable organisation applying artificial intelligence to conservation. The team deploys baited underwater cameras in marine reserves all over Aotearoa New Zealand to monitor the abundance and diversity of marine life. The underwater videos are hosted online for citizen scientists to identify and count the fish species present in the footage.
This project is also being used to train artificial intelligence software. In the future, the software will automatically process the footage and reduce the need for citizen scientists to manually classify the information.