The city of Fresno de la Vega and the University of León are starting A groundbreaking project in Europe to know the development of biodiversity in Las Choperas. To do this, various sensors have started to be placed in a plants of five -hectares of the city.
The sound and visual information of the collected fauna will be processed later Artificial intelligence tools to create a ‘digital twin’ from Chopera This makes it possible to study the evolution of his diversity during the different months of the year.
The idea is too Train the right staff of the city of Fresno, so that they can continue to use those sensors and collect data as soon as the project is completed.
Las Choperas and their biodiversity
A pioneering project will apply artificial intelligence and big data Follow -up about biodiversity in the chopper variety of the municipality of Fresno de la Vega (León) via a sensor analysis In almost real time of the fauna that lives in a plantation and how it varies all year round.
The University of León and the city of Fresno de la Vega (León) have presented an innovative cooperation It will be the municipality first in the digitization of the environment in the rural environment, Thanks to the Digis3 -Digital Project Innovation of Castilla Y León, CO -Fasted by the European Union.
As explained in the presentation of the project, Professor Flor Álvarez, the most important researcher of the DIGIS3 project, is about applying “very leading” technologies that assume Use of laser sensors or scanners to make chopper variety digital twins and use image and sound sensors at the same time To control almost real -time from the fauna that inhabits these spaces.
«So we will know What species do we have in the chopper variety at different times of the year And how that varies in the year, “he added.
In Europe, there has been a continuation, there are other prisoners to check the bird 3D -Replica that we have from the chopera, the digital twins, is what Superroman is“.
Cooperation holds a technological mentoring in the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence For monitoring ecosystem services, in particular the biodiversity of animalsVia in-situ sensors, Big Data-based analysis systems, digital twins and Lidar technology.
Follow -Up
The second of the services is a proof of concept (POC) to implement aids and test for visual detection and analysis and sounds of fauna in almost real -time in forested masses of the municipality. This system It will enable the automation of the processing and analysis of data, which generates periodic reports that quantify the biodiversity that is present in planting Chopos throughout the year.
Supervision and control tasks will also be included, in addition to close cooperation in the interpretation of the results with the technical team of the city council. The placement of the sensors in the wooded dough It starts in four or five hectares of Chokera from 15 May in a project with a first duration until December 2025Although, according to Álvarez Taboada, with the intention of continuing “to follow biodiversity during the cycle of a Chopera ».
«It’s not that let’s lose Biodiversity the moment we cut it, but that biodiversity will change, we will have other species and we want to analyze it during the life cycle“He said.
To do this, A The data obtained from the Fresno Adult Choachera will join that obtained from other younger helicopters and then also “Compare it with the Ribera -Bos, Chopos planted closer to the river bed so that it is seen that the Choperas, Played forests, cultivated forests are biodiverse and have those ecosystem services that are much larger than what an agricultural crop can have. “
The mayor of Fresno de la Vega, Alfonso Melón, explained from his part that the goal is “Evidence of how biodiversity is generated in the Chopos plantations that if those bushes were not, it would not be generated“And” because of the technological means that are now available, for example the passage of migratory birds and catalogs in an almost automatic way. ” EFE / ECOTICIA.COM