Advanced Technology
Advanced Technology
Advanced technologies like drones, sonar, and artificial intelligence provide opportunities to understand Great Lakes ecosystems in greater detail. USGS Great Lakes Science Center’s Advanced Technology Program evaluates and adopts technologies that improve the accuracy, precision, cost effectiveness, carbon footprint, and safety of our science and provide better information to our partners.
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Use of Advanced Technologies to Improve Fisheries Assessments on Lake Superior
The mission brings together state, federal, tribal, Canadian provincial, private, and non-profit partners using advanced fishery research approaches to enhance fishery assessment methods.
Development and application of a robot-assisted computer vision system to map Great Lakes bottom habitats and biology
Lake bottom environments are critical zones of interface between geology and biological processes that support health ecosystems and human well-being. Over the past thirty years, Great Lake food webs have become dominated by bottom dwelling invasive species and nuisance algae, that are poorly mapped and understood. USGS is developing a suite of new technologies to map habitat, invasive mussels and...