Drones and machine learning help swimmers stay safe from sharks
Funded by the California Ocean Protection Council, SAFS Professor, Corey Garza, and colleagues at Stanford, UC Santa Cruz and the Middlebury Institute have embarked on a project to better understand shark and pinniped behavior off the California coast.
They do this by tagging and tracking the animals, collecting background environmental data through buoys and mapping where pinnipeds gather. The goal is to understand how these variables interact and better predict when and where great white sharks might be on the prowl — and, importantly, how to keep people out of the water when they are.
Michael Espriella