Are you also worried about biodiversity loss and what can be done about it? Then join the ARISE Day on Wednesday 30 March at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Researchers from the ARISE project will demonstrate the latest developments and technologies in this area.
Biodiversity loss is one of the biggest threats to the survival of humanity. Therefore, there is an urgent need for better tools to monitor biodiversity. That is what the ARISE project aims to achieve: the construction of an infrastructure, the only one of its kind in the world, to identify and monitor all species of multicellular flora and fauna in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Research Council (NWO), University of Twente, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, University of Amsterdam and the Fungal Biodiversity Institute Westerdijk are building the infrastructure to realise this ambition.
UT’s contribution
The UT is collaboratively designing and building the fundamental backbone architecture for ARISE and the digital species identification (DSI) pipeline. The UT builds services that support developing and deploying AI algorithms that detect and identify species from various digital media such as sound, images, and radar. The DSI team is responsible for the design and implementation of a scalable end-to-end AI algorithm training, evaluation, and sharing platform.
Time to share
ARISE is gaining momentum as the first pilots have been completed, prototypes have been built and many lessons have been learned. We want to share this with interested parties and other experts in the field of biodiversity monitoring on the ARISE Day. A day filled with visionary keynote speakers, an update on ARISE, several interactive breakout sessions and of course networking opportunities.
Sign up
More information about the project can be found at www.arise-biodiversity.nl. You can register for the event here until 16 March. There you can also read the preliminary programme.
