USFWS aerial survey for sea otters

Example of a screen capture of machine learning assisted image processing with OtterChecker9000 from the USFWS aerial survey for sea otters in Southeast AK. Inset shows sea otters swimming over open water with green prediction boxes and associated confidence scores as determined by a YOLO V5 algorithm, trained with thousands of images of northern sea otters; column on right shows metadata associated with each image and prediction box. We can use these state-of-the-art tools to predict sea otter sightings and map locations from high-resolution imagery for validation and counting of sea otters in each photo to develop population estimates. Photo Credit: Collin Power & Evan Wetherington, USFWS - Marine Mammals Management