Forest-Watch - Sons da Amazônia

Forest Watch - Rainforest monitoring ecoacoustics data science research project

Ecoacústica e Inteligência Artificial Aplicados à Pesquisa em Ecossistemas Sul-Americanos (Observatório ECO) http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/5069051961660657

Forest Watch research project aims to collect images and sound data from Brazilian forests with remote sensing technology, Amazon and Mata Atlântica, to analyze and monitor biodiversity, risks, and threads such as fire, shots, and illegal activities such as logging, and poaching.

Concept:

• Prototype data collection device
  • Off-grid (solar panel power source and/or batteries)
  • Repurposed used smartphones
  • RaspberryPi and related computersEcoacústica e Inteligência Artificial Aplicados à Pesquisa em Ecossistemas Sul-Americanos (Observatório ECO)
  • Use market-ready devices (form factor) - https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/
  • Lightweight case
  • Ping device on top of trees
  • Send data by 4G/5G (When available)
  • Send data by satellite connection (When available)
  • Stream data (When possible)
  • Store data at a local SSD/Memory (offline data sample)
  • Mobile app to get sensors info
  • Low-cost hardware
• Store sound, image, and sensor data
• Annalise sound, image, and sensor data in the cloud
• Report
  • Mobile app
  • Papers/Articles
  • Graphics/Dashboard
  • Online real-time data access

Researchers (Multidisciplinary team):

MEng. Daniel Carvalho - Insper and Wolfram Research

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscarvalho/
• http://lattes.cnpq.br/0474323108499042

Dr. Seimor Walchhutter - Universidade Federal de Rondônia

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/seimor-walchhutter-5a3844186/
• http://lattes.cnpq.br/7714262057936175

Dr. Daniel Sander Hoffmann - Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul

• http://lattes.cnpq.br/4388320562511213

Dra. Lilian Sander Hoffmann - Programa Arquipélago/Postgraduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology (PPGBM) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

• http://lattes.cnpq.br/9894474384094223

Our publications

- 7th World Conference on Qualitative Research - WCQR2023 (282): Sounds of Amazon »

- Conferência Brasileira de Tecnologia Wolfram 2022 - Mackenzie - 5/11/2022: Ecoacoustics and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Research in South American Ecosystems »

- XVII Jornada Científica CEDSA (Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinar em Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia) - UNIR - 14/10/2022: SONS DA AMAZÔNIA

Ecosystems

Mata Atlântica - 200,205.3 km²

Amazonia - 7,000,000 km²

Reserva da Juréia - 843,8 km²

Project inspired by:

• https://www.wildlife-sound.org/
• https://rfcx.org
• https://www.eff.org/pages/gunshot-detection
• https://www.shotspotter.com/

Bibliograpy:

• The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate, Nicolas Mathevon, 2023.
• The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause, Little Brown, 2012.
• Methods in Ecoacoustics: The Acoustic Complexity Indices by Almo Farina, Peng Li, Springer, 2021.
• Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1 by Christine Erbe, Jeanette A. Thomas, Springer, 2021.
• Ecoacoustics: The Ecological Role of Sounds by Almo Farina, Stuart H. Gage, Wiley, 2017.
• Introduction to Machine Learning by Etienne Bernard, Wolfram Media, 2022.
• Beginning Mathematica and Wolfram for Data Science: Applications in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks by Jalil Villalobos Alva, Apress, 2021.
• Mathematica Data Analysis by Sergiy Suchok, Packt, 2015.
• Mathematica for Bioinformatics: A Wolfram Language Approach by George Mias, Springer, 2018.
• Mathematical Models in the Biosciences I by Michael Frame, Yale University Press, 2021.
• Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Data Science in the 21st Century by Victor Servings, Self Publisher, 2019.
• Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems by Lathi, B. P., Oxford, 1998.

Related News:

Laser scans reveal ancient cities hidden in the Amazon river basin https://bigthink.com/the-past/amazon-river-casarabe-lidar/

The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05679-w

Recuperação de floresta tropical compensa 26% de emissões de carbono provocadas por desmate e degradação https://agencia.fapesp.br/recuperacao-de-floresta-tropical-compensa-26-de-emissoes-de-carbono-provocadas-por-desmate-e-degradacao/40909/

Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmo
https://www.livescience.com/clock-face-shaped-villages-amazon-rainforest.html

Online tree of life now connects 2.2 million living species
https://www.freethink.com/environment/onezoom-tree-of-life

Mapping Brazilian soil mineralogy using proximal and remote sensing data https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706123000903?via%3Dihub