AIAM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ANIMAL MOVEMENT

The AIAM project will introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) in marine movement tracking ecology. Collecting marine animal movement is a laborious and expensive process, and AI tools can help optimize it, by, for example, suggesting optimal deployment locations. The AIAM project will first classify tracking data, inferring features of each individual (e.g., species, sex, age) from the spatiotemporal properties of its movement track record, and secondly forecast new locations given the segment of a trajectory. These tools will compose an open-source toolkit available for the marine ecology research community and can complete partial datasets and generate synthetic data.