SmartPass: Tech to help manage fisheries
Fisheries around the world provide significant nutritional, social, and economic benefits. But limited or inaccurate fisheries catch data can threaten the sustainability and productivity of fisheries.
SmartPass is an electronic monitoring approach that builds upon existing frameworks and aims to resolve these data gaps. SmartPass uses shore-based camera systems coupled with machine learning to identify, classify, and enumerate fishing vessels to determine how many vessels are fishing — and therefore better understand total catch. This can be shared with managers to efficiently and effectively manage fisheries for greater sustainability and productivity.
CVision AI designed and built the camera systems for SmartPass, then annotated the video data and developed object detection and tracking algorithms to count boats entering and exiting the harbor. You can read more about SmartPass on the EDF website or read the whitepaper.
