MANAUS, Brazil: Small, artificially clever bins tied to tree trunks within the Brazilian Amazon are the newest weapon within the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling harmful jungle invaders.
The bins, named Curupiras after a folkloric forest creature who preys on hunters and poachers, sport sensors and software program skilled “to recognise the sounds of chainsaws and tractors, or something that might trigger deforestation”, mission supervisor Thiago Almeida informed AFP.
“We recorded the sound of chainsaws and tractors within the forest … then, all of the collected sounds have been handed on to the AI group to coach (this system) in order that … it will solely recognise these sounds and never the attribute sounds of the forest, corresponding to animals, vegetation and rain,” he defined.
As soon as recognized, particulars of the menace can then be relayed to a central level and brokers deployed to cope with it.
“The benefit of this method is that it may well detect an assault … or a menace in real-time,” mentioned researcher Raimundo Claudio Gomes of the Amazonas State College behind the mission.
In contrast to satellite tv for pc information, which reveal deforestation solely after the very fact, the Curupiras can detect “when the destruction begins”, he added.