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We aspire to have an array of sensors with onboard identification capability to vastly cut down the time spent identifying animal sounds. This project will help us achieve this, and move closer to our dream of having grids of biosensors across the landscape of every country, so we can see changes in biodiversity in real time. - Prof. Hayward
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One of Australia’s commitments to the Convention for Biological Diversity in 2015 was the creation of a national biodiversity monitoring programme. This has not yet occurred despite the urgent need to monitor common and threatened species, as highlighted by the challenges of determining the biodiversity impacts of the Black Summer fires of 2019/20. In light of improvements to automation, miniaturisation and powering devices, the world urgently needs to scale-up biodiversity monitoring to become coordinated, comprehensive and continuous across large scales.
Researchers from the University of Newcastle have teamed up with SAPHI engineering, and several government and private environmental agencies to develop the Biosensor Monitoring project (BIOMON). The BIOMON team are developing an AI powered biodiversity monitoring device. These devices will be set out in areas of ecological concern to monitor a range of species, including birds, mammals and amphibians.
The BIOMON device will listen, record and identify the species calling. In order to continually improve the AI's capabilities we need your help to verify the species identifications it makes. In Bird Find you will be presented with snippets of bird calls that were recorded and identified by the BIOMON device. You'll be tasked with either verifying or correcting the identifications made by the BIOMON device.