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We’ve launched our GitHub repository and new website
9 November 2024
We'd love for developers to become involved in WISDAM and work towards improving our app.
Google Blog
How Google’s AI helped Australian researchers with conservation efforts
9 October 2023
Have you ever seen a dugong in real life? These big, friendly-looking vegetarians (affectionately called “sea cows”)...
ABC News
Scientists use AI, drones to track dugong and turtle populations off WA’s North West coast
18 July 2023
New techniques are being developed in Australia's north-west using artificial intelligence and drones to help conservation efforts...
ABC News
How drone technology is helping researchers study dugongs in the Pilbara
12 May 2021
Murdoch and Edith Cowan Universities have collaborated with researchers, government departments and the CSIRO to study the...
The Naked Scientists
Finding dugongs with drones – a The Great British Make Off podcast by Chris Smith
13 November 2018
If you stick a microphone into the water in some parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans,...
The Naked Scientists
Dugongs, Drones and Artificial Intelligence – How drones and AI are helping to track endangered species
11 November 2018
You probably don’t think about seagrass very often, indeed, diving amongst seagrass is probably not on your...
Google Blog - Australia
Celebrating extraordinary Australian AI stories
31 May 2018
For over a decade, we’ve been working on artificial intelligence to make more of the world’s information...
Mashable
Researchers are using drones and AI to count dugongs in the ocean
16 November 2016
Counting dugongs in the ocean can be a pretty difficult task. That's why Australian marine mammal researcher...
ABC News
AI experts build ‘neural network’ to help researchers search for dugongs
9 November 2016
Dugong expert Dr Amanda Hodgson estimates she has stared at more than 30,000 photographs of blue water....
Google Blog
Could machine learning save this sea cow?
9 November 2016
It’s hard to imagine this adorable sea cow getting caught in a fishing net, or losing its...