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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...