📋 Tender Overview
It has been monitoring forests, fauna and climate, through the development of tools that optimize environmental management and strengthen conservation efforts in the Peruvian Amazon.The Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP), an entity attached to the Ministry of Environment, has launched a scientific-technological program focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to face the main environmental challenges of the Amazon. Through its artificial intelligence laboratory, the IIAP develops innovative solutions that allow to conserve and take advantage of the Amazonian ecosystems sustainably.
This laboratory applies emerging technologies to analyze large volumes of information obtained by drones, satellites, cell phones, environmental sensors and acoustic recordings. Thanks to these tools, key data is generated to improve environmental management, biodiversity monitoring, territorial planning and response to climate change.
The technological solutions created by the IIAP seek to overcome historical limitations such as difficult access to forests, lack of precise information about flora and fauna, and high logistics costs to evaluate the state of Amazonian ecosystems. They also seek to replace traditional non -automated methods, which depend on human presence.
Achievements achieved
Among the advances achieved include automated palm trees such as Aguaje, Ungurahui and Huasai through images of drones and AI algorithms. This work has been published in the journal Nature Communications. In addition, a mobile application has been created that identifies 40 timber forest species from leaves, useful for technical, communities and forest actors. In the aquaculture field, an app with artificial vision was developed to count fish poslars such as the gamitanian, improving production efficiency and reducing errors in induced reproduction.
Other advances in progress include AI models that detect flowers and eagle fruits in aerial images, as well as the non -invasive identification of frog species, insects and birds through their sounds. It also works on the characterization of the Amazon Sound Landscape and in the generation of synthetic thermal images with AI, which could significantly reduce climate monitoring costs.
In parallel, portable low -cost environmental sensors are being manufactured, with Internet technology, 3D and electronic impression. These devices record temperature, moisture and co2 continuously, and have already begun to be tested in the city of Iquitos.
With these innovations, the IIAP demonstrates that artificial intelligence can be a tool to face the ecological, social and technological challenges of the Amazon. The Laboratory of AI will continue to generate solutions that integrate science, technology and sustainability for the benefit of the Amazon regions.
