All-hands meeting 2019

28 Jan 2019, 15:30 → 31 Jan 2019, 16:30 Europe/Copenhagen

Gudbrandsgård hotell

Monday, 28 January

PM/PO meetings

Pre-event Project Manager / Project Owner meetings
https://wiki.neic.no/int/PMPO_meeting_2019-01-28

Convener: Gudmund Høst (NeIC)

1 Registration

2 Welcome talk

Speaker: Gudmund Høst (NeIC)

Hackathon: Introduction to the hackathon and opening remarks

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 29 January

Keynote: Astro-ecology: astrophysics meets conservation biology (Steven Longmore)

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) estimates that up to five species of life on our planet become extinct every day. This astonishing rate of decline has potentially catastrophic consequences, not just for the ecosystems where the species are lost, but also for the world economy and planet as a whole. Indeed, biodiversity loss and consequent ecosystem collapse is commonly listed as one of the 10 foremost dangers facing humanity, and most pressingly in the developing world. There is a fundamental need to routinely monitor animal populations over much of the globe so that conservation strategies can be optimized with such information. The challenge faced to meet this need is considerable. To date most monitoring of animal populations is conducted manually, which is extremely labour-intensive, inherently slow and costly. Building on technological and software innovations in astronomy and machine learning, we have developed a drone plus thermal infrared imaging system and an associated automated detection/identification pipeline that has the potential to provide a cost-effective and efficient way to overcome this challenge. I will describe the current status of the system and our efforts to enable local communities in developing countries with little/no technical background to run routine monitoring and management of animal populations over large and inhospitable areas and thereby tackle global biodiversity loss.

Convener: Prof. Steven Longmore

3 Using machine learning to identify animals from drones

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) estimates that up to five species of life on our planet become extinct every day. This astonishing rate of decline has potentially catastrophic consequences, not just for the ecosystems where the species are lost, but also for the world economy and planet as a whole. Indeed, biodiversity loss and consequent ecosystem collapse is commonly listed as one of the 10 foremost dangers facing humanity, and most pressingly in the developing world. There is a fundamental need to routinely monitor animal populations over much of the globe so that conservation strategies can be optimized with such information. The challenge faced to meet this need is considerable. To date most monitoring of animal populations is conducted manually, which is extremely labour-intensive, inherently slow and costly. Building on technological and software innovations in astronomy and machine learning, we have developed a drone plus thermal infrared imaging system and an associated automated detection/identification pipeline that has the potential to provide a cost-effective and efficient way to overcome this challenge. I will describe the current status of the system and our efforts to enable local communities in developing countries with little/no technical background to run routine monitoring and management of animal populations over large and inhospitable areas and thereby tackle global biodiversity loss.

Speaker: Prof. Steven Longmore (Liverpool John Moores University)

Hackathon: Presentation of ideas

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

10:30 Break and Lunch

Hackathon: Team formation

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Team work!

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Checkpoint #1 - whole team please show up

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Mentors go around

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Pitch training

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Work continues

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 30 January

Hackathon: Development continues

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Checkpoint

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

10:30 Break and lunch

Hackathon: Pitch drill

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Development continues

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Final presentations!

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

Hackathon: Announcement of winners

Team work, hackathon

NeIC AHM Hackathon Intro.pdf

FA2: NeIC Focus Area 2 - Share resources

FA2

Convener: Tomasz Malkiewicz (NeIC/CSC)

19:30 Dinner

Thursday, 31 January

Area meetings: Coderfinery

Convener: Radovan Bast

Area meetings: Dellingr

Convener: John White (NeIC)

Area meetings: Glenna2

Convener: Dan Still

Area meetings: NT1

Convener: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

Area meetings: Tryggve2

Convener: Antti Pursula (CSC)

12:00 Lunch

4 Shuttles to the airport