Initiative #74
Pacific Plankton Monitoring: Imagery and automated classification
Listed in the registry Pilot Original language : English
About the initiative
Description of the initiative
• Monitoring of zooplankton and phytoplankton in the water column with shipboard and benchtop plankton imaging instruments (UVP, ZooScan, PlanktoScope). • Application of automated classification of survey and preserved sample image data sets to complement and enhance spatial and temporal resolution of monitoring in Canada’s EEZ and offshore NE Pacific. Development of and regular optimization of automated image classification models using AI: deep learning (residual networks) and machine learning (random forests) methods.
AI family
- AI capability
- Species Identification and Biological Annotation
Bucket rationale
Classifies biological image samples with AI—core perception/understanding bucket.
Lifecycle
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Ideation
Stage status : Completed
May 29, 2025
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Assessment
Stage status : Completed
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Approved
Stage status : Completed
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Development
Stage status : Completed
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Pilot
Stage status : In progress
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Production
Stage status : Upcoming
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Archived
Stage status : Upcoming
Schedule for this initiative
- Completed
- In progress
- Planned
- Not applicable
- Today
- Ideation
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Contacts
- Requester
- Quan, Eric
- Sector contact
- Sastri, Akash
- Subject matter expert
- Sastri, Akash
Data and tools
- Sector
- Ecosystems and Oceans Science
- Region
- Pacific
- Submitted on
- May 29, 2025