It’s a great feeling when you accomplish something big at work. It’s even better when you help make the world a better place in the process. Now’s your chance to do both at once. Restor presents an ideal employee engagement opportunity for individuals to join a unique citizen science project: Tag Trees. This initiative leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) and community participation to enhance nature restoration through online tree tagging.
Tag Trees
Restor has developed an AI model capable of identifying trees in photos taken by drones. This model is trained using thousands of images where trees are pre-labeled. However, to ensure accuracy and reliability across different environments, volunteers play a crucial role in tagging trees. These images come from various locations worldwide and encompass multiple biome types. When published, this dataset will be one of the largest and most diverse available for tree detection. With your help, we can make it even better!
Volunteers help demonstrate AI's ability to accurately identify trees by tagging them. The more diverse the tagging input, the more accurate the model becomes.
Tag Trees is accessible on Zooniverse, empowering individuals of all ages and backgrounds to contribute to significant scientific endeavours from anywhere globally. Over 20,000 images have already been successfully tagged, with over 3 million tags!
Why This Matters
Understanding tree counts and distributions is crucial for informed decision-making in environmental conservation, and forestry management. Accurate data guides resource allocation, supports biodiversity conservation, aids climate change mitigation efforts, and adds transparency in evaluating the effectiveness of reforestation projects and building trust for funding and scaling restoration efforts. Citizen engagement in initiatives like tagging trees plays a vital role in improving our knowledge base and empowering effective environmental stewardship and community involvement.
Employee Engagement and Global Impact
Many organizations are embracing climate initiatives as perfect employee engagement exercises that promote team building while contributing to a global cause. Tagging trees is simple and fun, but its impact is profound, helping in the global restoration monitoring efforts and helping count every tree on the planet.Bloomberg contributed to the Tag Trees project as part of their overall commitment to driving strong, measurable, and local action on climate change. If you are interested in a similar session, get in touch.
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July 24, 2024
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