The NERC #DG23 ‘Digital Gathering 23’ now drawn to a successful conclusion

The NERC ‘Digital Gathering 23’ has now drawn to a successful conclusion, organised through the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. Held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 10-11th July, the #DG23 International conference hosted a series of excellent oral presentation, spotlight talks, posters and masterclass workshops focussing on four of the core themes of […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Sari Giering NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell CEFAS Are plankton nets a thing of the past? How we can use AI for real-time high-resolution plankton monitoring?

Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]

#CDE22 – Reflections on the Conference

The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]

Jetson Nano – Object Detection and Image Classification

In our previous blog (https://digitalenvironment.org/the-nvidia-jetson-nano-first-look-and-setup) we explored setting up and running the amazing Jetson Nano Developer Kit from NVIDIA. This little unit is capable of about half a teraflop of floating point calculations using its Maxwell accelerated GPU processor – pretty impressive for a low cost unit. In this blog we were following the ‘Two […]

The NVIDIA Jetson Nano – First Look and Setup

We’ve got our hands on one of NVIDIA’s amazing ‘Jetson Nano’ processors and developer kit. The Jetson Nano is described by NVIDIA as being used by professional developers to ‘create breakthrough AI products across all industries, and by students and enthusiasts for hands-on AI learning and making amazing projects’ (https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing). This small unit packs a […]

Essential travel was granted for our first CreamT delivery!

The Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project is now is full swing monitoring wave overtopping and beach levels change at Dawlish. While the lockdowns have been challenging with workshops access restricted and material supply chains impacted from the outset of the project, we still made it to the beach to collect out first […]

A new way of working

Professor Marion Scott, one of the CDE Expert Network members, and her research team have just produced an excellent animated ‘story map’ of their research project. This is a tale of how when the world turns upside down; engineers find a way to ‘get the job done’! The project involves plannig to develop and deploy […]

Facial Expression Recognition Demonstrator

In this post, we describe the development of a further demonstrator for an exhibition we are planning using a Raspberry Pi. The Digital Environment team are planning to be in support of NERC in attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference and exhibition in Seattle, USA in February 2020, and are making […]

Raspberry Pi Exhibition Demonstrator

In this post, we describe the development of a demonstrator for an exhibition using a Raspberry Pi. The Digital Environment team are planning to be in support of NERC in attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference and exhibition in Seattle, USA in February 2020, and are making preparations. One […]