AI Technologies To Harness Oceanography's Potential For Sustainability

One thing that dominates the surface of the earth is the ocean. From regulating our climate, securing transportation of goods across nations, from minerals to polymetallic nodules, harnessing clean energy sources to deep research, it holds numerous potentials that are yet to be harnessed. The United Nations has declared 2021 to 2030 – a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to support efforts to reverse the trend of declining ocean health and bring ocean stakeholders worldwide together behind a collective structure to work for ocean sustainability. In a recent research by the University of Bath, two AI algorithms -- Latent Variable Gaussian Process (LVGP) model and Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA) were used to understand the sonar echoes in the ocean. The research aimed at observing the changes that can happen with sonar echoes at different depths, salinity, and temperature.