AI boosts hydropower fish monitoring

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Source: Innovasea

Innovasea is steering a CAN$4.8 million (€3 million) effort to help hydropower operators automatically identify fish species as they pass through monitoring stations, a task that currently demands hours of manual review

The new initiative, called Species Aware, is backed partly by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and will see Canadian power companies test the technology at selected dam sites.

Species recognition will be layered into HydroAI, Innovasea’s existing real-time counting tool. 

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