In the coming months, MERIDIAN is organizing a number of webinars under the common theme of ‘Novel software tools for ocean acoustics’. The first webinar in the series takes place on Wednesday November 18th and deals with modelling and visualization of underwater soundscapes. Registration is free, but participation is limited, Read more…
Check out the latest version of Ketos at https://docs.meridian.cs.dal.ca/ketos/. The new release includes several new neural network architectures and a brand new tutorial demonstrating how to build a deep learning acoustic detector.
MERIDIAN staff Fabio Frazao, Bruno Padovese, Oliver Kirsebom, and P.I. Stan Matwin have authored a short article about Deep Learning and its applications to ocean acoustics, which has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Ocean Technology (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2020). Read the article here!
This month, we are organizing another series workshops on ocean data management. Compared to the workshops held in June, these workshops will take a more practical approach, giving participants the opportunity to dive into the various aspects of the data (management) life cycle through a number of guided hands-on sessions. Read more…
At the beginning of this month, MERIDIAN had to say farewell to Senior Data Manager, Casey Hilliard, who has accepted a new position at GSTS (Global Spatial Technology Solutions) in Dartmouth, NS. A long-time research support staff at the Institute for Big Data Analytics and an expert in the management Read more…
If you would like to use one of MERIDIAN’s deep learning algorithms on your acoustic data, but aren’t comfortable with the command line interface or programming in Python, don’t despair. Now Kedgi is here to help you! Kedgi provides a user-friendly graphical interface enabling you to run MERIDIAN acoustic detection Read more…
Having just released a new version of Ketos, the MERIDIAN data analystics team is ready with another package release: Kadlu 2.0 comes with a brand new toolset to model underwater sound propagation and estimate ambient noise levels in the ocean. To explore the new Kadlu package and try out the Read more…
The last six months, we have been busy improving Ketos in response to the feedback we received at the November workshop in Victoria BC. After some sweat and tears, we are proud to finally announce the release of Ketos 2.0, which includes a bunch of new functionalities and fully re-worked Read more…
Last week, MERIDIAN’s data management team gave a webinar about the MERIDIAN Discovery Portal. You can watch the webinar, which was hosted by the Portage Network, on CARL Youtube channel (An Introduction to MERIDIAN and the MERIDIAN Discovery Portal) and review the slide deck in our Presentation Archive. Enjoy!
Working together with researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at the Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Québec, the MERIDIAN data analytics team has trained a deep neural network to detect the characteristic upcall produced by North Atlantic right whales. The performance of the neural network, measured in terms of its Read more…
