{"id":224752,"date":"2025-10-25T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224752\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:31:06","slug":"plymouth-scientists-win-2m-to-use-ai-in-deep-sea-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224752\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth scientists win \u00a32m to use AI in deep-sea mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vulnerable deep-sea habitats will be mapped with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a study made possible by a \u00a32m investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Deep Vision project &#8211; run by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Plymouth &#8211; will study ecosystems such as cold-water coral reefs and sponge fields in the Atlantic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim is to build the largest-ever dataset of these habitats and help shape legal protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leader of the project, Kerry Howell, said: &#8220;As the deep-sea becomes more accessible for exploitation, there is an urgent need to map its ecosystems to enable the conservation of biodiversity in this, the last wild frontier on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulnerable deep-sea habitats will be mapped with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) in a study made possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-224752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}