Painting the Ocean
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are relatively small, remotely operated aircraft that are becoming increasingly popular as environmental surveying platforms. Their ability to fly in any direction greatly simplifies launching and landing procedures, making them an ideal instrument for monitoring otherwise difficult-to access and highly dynamic areas, in particular surfzones.
The Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathways Experiment (SCOPE) examined the surfzone control on oil transport on a sandy, rip channeled beach with a crescentic outer bar system was performed on Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa Island, Florida, in December 2013. Several done missions were flown with varying Rhodamine water tracing dye releases.
Evolution of a dye cloud over a domain of (O)(100 x 100 m). Photo credit to Dr. Reniers and Dr Brouwer
The overarching goal here is to use machine learning and data mining approaches (eg artificial neural networks) to predict dispersion and advection estimates of pollutants in the surfzone.
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- A "deep dream" oil spill generator. Can we train a deep learning neural network in such a way as to help better understand images of oil spills?
- Anything else you can think of!
- Resource link: A resource
Challenge owner: David Lindo
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- Estefania Rodriguez and Luciana Gusmão
- Melanie Hopkins
- Christine Johnson
- Eunsoo Kim and Aaron Heiss
- David Lindo
