How Deep Learning Could Help Save Coral Reefs NVIDIA Blog

The world depends on coral reefs, but they're disappearing – ravaged by climate change, coastal development, overfishing and pollution. With a quarter of Earth's reefs already gone, scientists are racing to save them, and they're getting a big boost from GPU-accelerated deep learning. Although reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, they provide food and shelter for more than a quarter of all marine species, support fish stocks that feed more than a billion people and provide jobs to millions of people in coastal areas. Scientists study images of coral reefs to measure reef health and changes over time. That's now done by human experts, but it's costly and time-consuming.