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…
This week, MERIDIAN is saying farewell to Senior Data Manager, Dr. Ines Hessler, who has accepted a new position as Chief Technology Officer at ACENET, the east coast Compute Canada node. Ines was instrumental in getting MERIDIAN off the ground 2.5 years ago and shaping the project into what it Read more…
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, MERIDIAN’s Data Analytics team is releasing a new ocean acoustics software package. Named Kadlu after the Inuit goddess that creates thundery weather, the package provides tools to accurately model ambient noise levels in the ocean. The first version of Kadlu includes methods for Read more…
The full report of the MERIDIAN-ONC workshop “Detection and Classification in Marine Bioacoustics with Deep Learning” held in November 2019 in Victoria, BC, has been finalized and can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08249. We hope the report will serve both as a comprehensive summary of the discussions that took place at Read more…
