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November 24, 2022

Can AI track reforestation projects using drone and satellite data?

Satellite and drone data was used to monitor tree coverage of Justdiggit re-greening projects in Tanzania and Kenya to measure the efficiency of carbon capture! To help fight climate change by improving carbon capture efficiency, three teams of AI engineers came together to build and implement machine learning models.

November 22, 2022

The Most Important AI for Good Trends of 2022 + Some Dangers

The rise of open research communities usher in a power distribution in AI research and accessibility, AI safety is slowly being taken seriously and AI assists fundamental breakthroughs in various natural sciences! This article describes the most important AI for Good trends of 2022 and what they mean to you.

October 31, 2022

‘I just took the plunge and left my pharmacy job.’: Aisha Kala on how she became a self-taught data scientist

AI for Good engineer Aisha Kala talks about her journey of switching to a career in tech and learning statistics, coding and computer science online. A love letter to data and people in AI communities trying to make the world a better place.

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November 24, 2022

Can AI track reforestation projects using drone and satellite data?

November 22, 2022

The Most Important AI for Good Trends of 2022 + Some Dangers

October 31, 2022

‘I just took the plunge and left my pharmacy job.’: Aisha Kala on how she became a self-taught data scientist

October 14, 2022

How to use vehicle sensors to make cities more sustainable

A case study on making cities greener by vegetation monitoring and detecting traffic density; differentiating between heavy vehicles, buses and private transport.

October 3, 2022

Can AI detect the risk of heart failure from ECGs?

Electrocardiogram data was subjected to a sweeping array of machine learning and deep learning models. Is it as good a predictor of heart failure risk as blood tests?

September 21, 2022

The pains of classifying flooded forests in satellite data

About a tricky detection use case - from weeks of data pre-processing to training 2 CNNs; and why the answer might be in infrared band data.

September 14, 2022

AI-based early warning system for river floods

Forecasting flash floods with LSTM, ARIMA and Prophet using time series data from hydrological sensors monitoring French rivers.

September 6, 2022

How we applied AI to prevent sepsis in preterm babies

A case study on using XGBoost for time series forecasting to predict the onset of sepsis in preterm infants within a 12-hour prediction horizon.

August 29, 2022

AI-powered Wildlife Conservation in Africa

An account of 10-week teamwork developing multiple machine learning and hardware pipelines to bring production-ready AI to edge hardware on flying rangers.

August 28, 2022

Model Optimization and Pruning of Poacher-detecting YOLOv5

Optimizing a YOLOv5 model for NVIDIA Jetson Nano to increase the inference speed and reduce memory footprint, focusing on inference speed not the absolute mAP.

August 27, 2022

User-friendly, Wilderness-proof MLOps

Developing a CI/CD pipeline that automatically retrains the existing poacher-detecting model, which can be deployed to the drone with improved performance.