Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.
The boxes, named"curupiras" after a folkloric forest creature who preys on hunters and poachers, sport sensors and software trained"to recognize the sounds of chainsaws and tractors, or anything that could cause deforestation,""We recorded the sound of chainsaws and tractors in the forest... then, all the collected sounds were passed on to the AI team to train so that...
"The advantage of this system is that it can detect an attack... or a threat in real time," said researcher Raimundo Claudio Gomes of the Amazonas State University behind the project., which reveal deforestation only after the fact, the curupiras can detect"when the destruction starts," he added. The sensors can distinguish invasive sounds such as those made by chainsaws, from the sounds of the forest.
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