Crunching big data to protect our environment.
Tackling the challenges in conservation and management of earths resources by providing novel insights into how environments respond to multiple anthropogenic stressors.
All terrestrial and coastal environments face unprecedented and escalating stressors from urban expansion, habitat loss for commercial infrastructure and massive shoreline changes driven by climate change and anthropogenic stresses. This cluster brings together a cross-disciplinary group of researchers seeking to advance the conservation and sustainable use of earth resources.
Archived geospatial databases from earth observation and geographical information systems, together with locational information, hold a huge information repository.Detailed knowledge can be extracted with cutting edge analytics that will make extensive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a geospatial environment to provide insight. This cluster will share the challenges associated with these novel approaches, that will combine AI-based analytics with discipline-based knowledge and field data to enable national and international collaborations.
Cluster lead: Associate Prof. Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava
Our aim
We aim to develop and apply cutting-edge geospatial analytics to advance and deepen the conservation and sustainable use of earth’s resources.
About the Geospatial Analytics for Conservation research cluster
The conservation of ecosystems located at the edge of the sea and terrestrial regions requires novel and effective tools to detect a deleterious change in critical features and attributes, and to gauge the efficacy of management interventions.