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3, February 2019 – Drones used to detect and collect plastic in the water
Vic Grosjean aiming to remove pollution in our waterways using artificial intelligence
‘The Flotsam Fight’, Vol. 5, No. 01, February 2019, Celebrating 100 Years of Engineers Australia: Engineering Ideas into Reality, by Cris Andrews on ‘Create Magazine’, Vic Grosjean, an engineer with the OceanX Group in Melbourne has designed an algorithm which will enable drones to detect and therefore collect, plastic in the water.
Harmful to humans and animals alike, the growing amount of plastic in the world’s Oceans is an Unfolding disaster. Fortunately, a number of Ingenious minds are on clean-up duty.
Vic Grosjean, an engineer with the OceanX Group in Melbourne has designed an algorithm which will enable drones to detect and therefore collect, plastic in the water. The algorithm analyses many thousands of images of plastic in the water and can distinguish between rubbish and a marine animal. He envisages one-day deploying airborne, underwater and water-level drones powered by artificial intelligence, at the source of the problem: the rivers around the world where most of the plastic enters the ocean.
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