Watch | Using AI to survey African elephants

A video describing how a team of international researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered method to survey African elephants in various landscapes.

Published - January 12, 2021 05:44 pm IST

A new approach for surveying African elephants using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI) could help in solving some of the present challenges in the conservation of the species.

The survey method was developed by an international team of researchers led by University of Oxford. The team detailed their work in a paper titled ‘Using very high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning to detect and count African elephants in heterogeneous landscapes’, published in the academic journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.

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