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Artificial intelligence for automatized monitoring of water quality and vegetation biodiversity (AIWaterBio)

  • Duration: 2018 - 2020
  • Status: Completed

Learn to use scalable Microsoft AI- and IoT services to explore opportunities and build new AI-services.

Project management
Jari Silander
Project team
Yulia Pavlova (Luke), John Loehr (HY) & Jussi Mori (Experts Inside GmbH, Finland/Switzerland)
Partners
LUKE, HY, Experts Inside GmbH
Subject area

Objective

Learn to use scalable Microsoft AI- and IoT services to explore opportunities and build new AI-services.

Fig. 1 Algae bloom in near the Hietaranta beach in Helsinki was causuing harm for swimming and fishing. Alage was recognized with over 90 percent reliability. © Jari Silander.

Research questions

  • Can crowd data be used to classify algal bloom levels to improve national algal bloom forecasts and reduce monitoring effort of experts?
  • What valuable features can be extracted from the data?

Background

The project supports the MONITOR 2020 program, which develops the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of monitoring by improving methodology, processes, networking, quality and data usage.

Additionial information

Senior researcher Jari Silander, puh: +358 295 251 638, firstname.lastname@ymparisto.fi