Artificial Intelligence and Conservation

Artificial Intelligence and Conservation
Author: Fei Fang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1108672922

With the increasing public interest in artificial intelligence (AI), there is also increasing interest in learning about the benefits that AI can deliver to society. This book focuses on research advances in AI that benefit the conservation of wildlife, forests, coral reefs, rivers, and other natural resources. It presents how the joint efforts of researchers in computer science, ecology, economics, and psychology help address the goals of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Written at a level accessible to conservation professionals and AI researchers, the book offers both an overview of the field and an in-depth view of how AI is being used to understand patterns in wildlife poaching and enhance patrol efforts in response, covering research advances, field tests and real-world deployments. The book also features efforts in other major conservation directions, including protecting natural resources, ecosystem monitoring, and bio-invasion management through the use of game theory, machine learning, and optimization.

AI in the Wild

AI in the Wild
Author: Peter Dauvergne
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262359588

Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability. Drones with night vision are tracking elephant and rhino poachers in African wildlife parks and sanctuaries; smart submersibles are saving coral from carnivorous starfish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef; recycled cell phones alert Brazilian forest rangers to the sound of illegal logging. The tools of artificial intelligence are being increasingly deployed in the battle for global sustainability. And yet, warns Peter Dauvergne, we should be cautious in declaring AI the planet's savior. In AI in the Wild, Dauvergne avoids the AI industry-powered hype and offers a critical view, exploring both the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability.

Artificial Intelligence and Social Work

Artificial Intelligence and Social Work
Author: Milind Tambe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1108425992

An introductory guide with real-life examples on using AI to help homeless youth, diabetes patients, and other social welfare interventions.

Data Science Applied to Sustainability Analysis

Data Science Applied to Sustainability Analysis
Author: Jennifer Dunn
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128179775

Data Science Applied to Sustainability Analysis focuses on the methodological considerations associated with applying this tool in analysis techniques such as lifecycle assessment and materials flow analysis. As sustainability analysts need examples of applications of big data techniques that are defensible and practical in sustainability analyses and that yield actionable results that can inform policy development, corporate supply chain management strategy, or non-governmental organization positions, this book helps answer underlying questions. In addition, it addresses the need of data science experts looking for routes to apply their skills and knowledge to domain areas. - Presents data sources that are available for application in sustainability analyses, such as market information, environmental monitoring data, social media data and satellite imagery - Includes considerations sustainability analysts must evaluate when applying big data - Features case studies illustrating the application of data science in sustainability analyses

Artificial Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems

Artificial Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems
Author: Ajay Kumar Vyas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2022-03-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119761697

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS Renewable energy systems, including solar, wind, biodiesel, hybrid energy, and other relevant types, have numerous advantages compared to their conventional counterparts. This book presents the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques for renewable energy system modeling, forecasting, and optimization for efficient system design. Due to the importance of renewable energy in today’s world, this book was designed to enhance the reader’s knowledge based on current developments in the field. For instance, the extraction and selection of machine learning algorithms for renewable energy systems, forecasting of wind and solar radiation are featured in the book. Also highlighted are intelligent data, renewable energy informatics systems based on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA); and intelligent condition monitoring of solar and wind energy systems. Moreover, an AI-based system for real-time decision-making for renewable energy systems is presented; and also demonstrated is the prediction of energy consumption in green buildings using machine learning. The chapter authors also provide both experimental and real datasets with great potential in the renewable energy sector, which apply machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms that will be helpful for economic and environmental forecasting of the renewable energy business. Audience The primary target audience includes research scholars, industry engineers, and graduate students working in renewable energy, electrical engineering, machine learning, information & communication technology.

Watershed Management and Applications of AI

Watershed Management and Applications of AI
Author: Sandeep Samantaray
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2021-05-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000386732

Land use and water resources are two major environmental issues which necessitate conservation, management, and maintenance practices through the use of various engineering techniques. Water scientists and environmental engineers must address the various aspects of flood control, soil conservation, rainfall-runoff processes, and groundwater hydrology. Watershed Management and Applications of AI provides the necessary principles of hydrology to provide practical strategies useful for the planning, design, and management of watersheds. The book also synthesizes novel new approaches, such as hydrological applications of machine learning using neural networks to predict runoff and using artificial intelligence for the prediction of groundwater fluctuations. Features: Presents hydrologic analysis and design along with soil conservation practices through proper watershed management techniques Provides analysis of land erosion and sediment transport in watersheds from small to large scale Includes estimations for runoff using different methodologies with systematic approaches for each Discusses water harvesting and development of water yield catchments This book will be a valuable resource for students in hydrology courses, environmental consultants, water resource engineers, and researchers in related water science and engineering fields.

Artificial Intelligence and The Environment

Artificial Intelligence and The Environment
Author: Cindy Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781733524803

"This volume reports 16 AI projects on engineering sustainability using AI, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Databases and other Technologies (Hybrid AI). Sixty scientists contribute to the volume on ‘Boots on the Ground’ topics including fire fighting, forestry sustainability, flood prediction, algae bloom prediction, water pollution prediction, sewage treatment, recycling and resource consumption. There are also ‘Data, Data Everywhere’ topics including biodiversity cataloguing, plant physiology and climate modeling, forest ecosystem modelling, satellite data aggregation and viewing and weather forecasting. The contributions of each team of scientists, AI researchers and engineers has been assembled with a set of helpful questions and answers called “Classroom Connection” at the end of each chapter. The existence of this book serves to document the AI projects in existence and some of the people who have been actively working to create sustainability using AI. Inside you’ll find many examples of hybrid AI - systems so complex, they need every AI trick in the book to solve them, and then some. The book is presented at the 2019 U.N. Climate Summit in Madrid Spain."--Publisher's description.

Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage

Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
Author: Luciana Bordoni
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443895474

Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage represent a combination that for several years has interested both scientific and cultural institutions regarding the potential of possible interactions and aggregations among the various players in these areas. This volume defines roles and provides connections where research and new technologies can suggest routes and competitive solutions that integrate tourism and culture with business and the market. The volume is multidisciplinary, presenting and discussing a variety of new ideas, resulting from the integration of different scientific approaches. The papers brought together here deal with topics including the representation of cultural history, semantic digital archives, the use of analytic tools to support visitor interpretation, augmented reality, and robotics. As such, this book represents the detailed investigation of methodological and applicative aspects that the continued proliferation of computer applications in the cultural heritage field demands.

Conservation Biogeography

Conservation Biogeography
Author: Richard J. Ladle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1444390023

CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY The Earth’s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic climate change now threatens to completely redraw the geographic map of life on this planet. The urgent need to understand and prescribe solutions to this complicated and interlinked set of pressing conservation issues has lead to the transformation of the venerable academic discipline of biogeography – the study of the geographic distribution of animals and plants. The newly emerged sub-discipline of conservation biogeography uses the conceptual tools and methods of biogeography to address real world conservation problems and to provide predictions about the fate of key species and ecosystems over the next century. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the field in a series of closely interlinked chapters addressing the central issues within this exciting and important subject.