University of Waterloo

$225,000.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Canadian Space Agency
Program
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2023-2024
Agreement period
March 24, 2024 – March 31, 2027
Reference
csa-asc:003-2023-2024-Q4-00062

Published purpose

Following a first-place success in the European Space Agency’s AutoICE Challenge, the Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP Lab) is continuing to advance state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms towards the automation of operational sea ice mapping using remotely sensed and ancillary data. Manual ice charting is very time consuming and limited in the number of images that can be processed. Automation of this process using artificial intelligence has been an elusive goal for decades. The researchers seek to further their solution to support Canadian operational ice mapping in partnership with the Canadian Ice Service (CIS).

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