Collaborative innovation project River Deep Mountain AI (RDMAI) has announced the open-source release of a suite of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models set to transform the way water quality data is collected and used.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)has gone out to tender with a contract for digital mapping services worth an estimated £15 million in total. 

Scottish Water has worked with partners to turn a surfboard into a state-of-the-art automated inspection device to gather information on the condition of infrastructure vital to the supply of Edinburgh’s drinking water.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for services acquiring Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery to administer common agricultural policy schemes worth an estimated £2 million to Munich based firm European Space Imaging GmBH.

A new £22 million research programme will investigate the impacts of climate change and human activities on the Atlantic Ocean, from the surface to the deep seabed.

Experts will use satellites to monitor the quality of water in Scotland’s lochs as part of a pioneering new project led by the University of Stirling.

The Environment Agency is planning to invest £5 million on hiring two survey aircraft and associated pilots and services to facilitate its remote sensing survey program through the next 5 years.

A recent offshore exercise, conducted by international industry-funded cooperative Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL), was designed to understand how remote sensing technologies can help detect oil spills at sea more effectively.