Irish boffins are exploring how artificial intelligence can be used to predict threats to Irish peat bogs and their impact on the climate.
Ireland’s national centre for applied AI, CeADAR, has teamed up with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre in Applied Geosciences iCRAG for a €200k project, AI2Peat.
The researchers plan to use data gathered by drones, satellites and citizen scientists to develop all-Ireland mapping that will identify issues like illegal mining, erosion, landslides, biodiversity decline as well as areas of high conservation value.
