A conference theme

Invasive species

Detecting, mapping and managing invasive alien species and supporting regulation with data.

6 talks & discussions
Across rooms and sessions

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talk · Monday 21 September · Aula

Reducing the lag from observation to action

Timeliness is a missing biodiversity knowledge shortfall: publish soon, publish often, and improve continuously.

Quentin Groom ↗
talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL B

From satellite embeddings to Darwin Core: an open, ensemble-AI workflow for Prosopis juliflora mapping and reusable training-dataset generation

Satellite embeddings plus hyperspectral signatures and ground validation can map invasive Prosopis at scale and generate reusable, attributable training data.

Pranav Jha ↗
talk · Tuesday 22 September · ODIN

Ground-Truth from the Ground Up: Community-Led Occurrence Data for Prosopis juliflora Restoration in Kutch's Climate-Stressed Drylands

Community ground-truthing through voice-based, local-language tools makes satellite invasive-species maps reliable and restoration locally owned.

Pranav Jha ↗
talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL A

Scalable Edge AI for Real-Time Biodiversity Monitoring: tracking invasive plant species in roadside imagery

Distilling a tiling-based plant identifier into a single ConvNeXt model makes high-resolution roadside invasive-species monitoring fast, cheap and more accurate.

Giulio Martellucci ↗
talk · Tuesday 22 September · ODIN

The Swedish experience on verification and how to improve quality on observations

Human verification remains essential, and the community needs a standard to exchange verification status between systems.

Mora Aronsson ↗
talk · Thursday 24 September · SAL A

Old habits and new visions: Exploring the RECODE data model, future integration and data enhancement

Normalising decades of flat CMS data into relational entities and workflow-driven processes gives NHM a foundation for integrations and AI, but it needs institutional governance.

Steen Dupont ↗