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We have created a short, informational video about our Ocean Soundscape Atlas application. Watch it on our YouTube channel in either French or English.

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, Lire la suite…

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. Lire la suite…

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 Lire la suite…

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 Lire la suite…

Following a recent string of new releases, the MERIDIAN Data Analytics team is ready with yet another software product, specviz.js, a small lightweight javascript plugin for visualizing spectrograms in web applications. You can find it in our GitLab repository or download it directly from here. specviz.js was developed with the Lire la suite…

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 Lire la suite…