As they disintegrate over time, the machine performs a giant puzzle problem, linking the smaller \u201cchild\u201d fragments back to the \u201cparent\u201d and creating detailed family trees never before possible at this scale.<\/p>\n
It represents a huge improvement on existing methods, where scientists pore over satellite images to visually identify and track only the largest icebergs one by one.<\/p>\n
The AI system, which was tested using satellite observations over Greenland, provides \u201cvital new information\u201d for scientists and improves predictions about the future climate, said the British Antarctic Survey.<\/p>\n
Knowing where these giant slabs of freshwater were melting into the ocean was especially crucial with ice loss expected to increase in a warming world, it added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is that this finally gives us the observations we\u2019ve been missing,\u201d Ben Evans, a machine learning expert at the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from tracking a few famous icebergs to building full family trees. For the first time, we can see where each fragment came from, where it goes and why that matters for the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n
This use of AI could also be adapted to aid safe passage for navigators through treacherous polar regions littered by icebergs.<\/p>\n
Iceberg calving is a natural process. But scientists say the rate at which they were being lost from Antarctica is increasing, probably because of human-induced climate change.<\/p>\n
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