Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst Held every three years, Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life is a major international conference that brings together a wide spectrum of specialists from different sectors (university, industry, government, NGO), all sharing an interest in marine animals and a concern for Lire la suite…
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager MERIDIAN is operating at the crossroad of research, research support and information management why collaborating with and supporting key players from the different sectors is important to us. As of April 2019 the MERIDIAN Data Management team is contributing to two working Lire la suite…
Paving the way for deep-learning based sound detectors and classifiers Author: Fabio Frazao and Oliver Kirsebom – MERIDIAN Data Analytics MERIDIAN’s data analytics team is excited to announce the first release of a software package for acoustic data analysis with neural networks. The package, named Ketos after the Ancient Lire la suite…
An application that enables human analysts and artificial neural networks to work together on the task of analyzing large marine acoustic data sets… Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst Self Driving by xkcd.com Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a highly effective and cost-efficient method widely used in Lire la suite…
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager The Fisheries and Oceans Canada Ocean and Freshwater Science Contribution Program (OFSCP) is an initiative that supports scientific research and science-related activities that align with the departmental interest areas such as fisheries, aquatic ecosystems and marine navigation. In September 2018, our proposed Lire la suite…
A place where everyone shares your joy and frustration with scientific data analysis in Python and R PyBaR is an informal co-working group organized by MERIDIAN, which provides students and researchers at Dal with a space to discuss data analysis problems and computational challenges related to their research. PyBaR focuses Lire la suite…
On August 16 and 17, 2018, our first MERIDIAN workshop entitled “The Canadian Ocean Soundscape: Models, Tools and Integration Points” took place at the Atlantica Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It brought together members of the geographically disperse MERIDIAN team and various representatives of the Canadian ocean acoustics community. The Lire la suite…
Image Credit: Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe by Jenn Riley Author: Kim Mortimer – Data Management Expert It’s in ISO’s name: “International Organization for Standardization”. But when you look up some of their standards (for example, ISO 19115, which is what I’m most interested in), you Lire la suite…
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager MERIDIAN (Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network) successfully launched in November 2017. MERIDIAN is a Canada Foundation for Innovation funded multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary consortium of ocean researchers, computer and data management professionals. Our team members are based at Lire la suite…
24 September 2021 – Sustainable Ocean Conference – Dalhousie University Machine Learning in Marine Bioacoustics – Bruno PadoveseView Poster 24 August 2021 – Advances in Marine Data Science Session – SFU’s Big Data Hub The Ketos Package – Fabio FrazaoView Presentation Acoustic Detection and Classification of Killer Whales with Deep Neural Lire la suite…
