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Biosecurity surveillance seminar

You are warmly invited to our FREE UCBI biosecurity seminar  online, in person or later via video. 

Register for Biosecurity surveillance on Wed 28 June midday here.

Assoc. Prof Steve Pawson will outline how we can detect insects new to Aotearoa NZ using light traps and eDNa, as part of the BioHeritage. Science Challenge.

Paul Benden PhD will detail his research plans for semi-automated surveillance  of street-level urban trees using image segmentation. Below, AI recognises a cabbage tree in blue from a camera mounted on a vehicle.

Cabbage tree AI
AI scans the cabbage trees in blue from a moving vehicle

Find our more and get in touch!

biosecurityinnovations@canterbury.ac.nz