Sensing the Forest - Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology and Creative AI

感知森林——物联网、声学生态、创意人工智能让森林说话

• 批准号: AH/X011585/2
• 负责人: Anna Xambo Sedo
• 金额: $ 23.73万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX011585%2F2
• 关键词: Sensing; Forest; Let; Speak; using

Climate change is a world problem. The effects of climate change are clear from the latest natural disasters in the world (e.g. summer droughts in Europe, Antarctica ice melting, and floods in India and Pakistan, among others). Arguably, the general public lacks accessible scientific information at a local level that can help them make informed decisions on how to adapt to everyday life and contribute to the future national adaptation to climate change. Forest loss or deforestation is one of the causes of contemporary climate change. Similar to weather observatories, there exist forest observatories that produce vast amounts of environmental data that require analysis and interpretation by expert scientists, usually in a way not easily digestible by the general public. Much of the scientific research on the impact of climate change on forests focuses on a limited number of intensively monitored areas. This lacks wide geographical variability, increasing the uncertainty when upscaling to a regional or national level for policy-making. We believe that offering artistic and simplified graphical/sonic interpretation of complex data and the ability to monitor nearby trees can help raise awareness of relevant issues caused by climate change to our forest ecosystem and contribute to a wider geographic data variability. The project will bring the attention of the general public to the forest changes caused by climate change. This project contributes to community building of artists, scientists and forest aficionados by debating the potentially devastating effects of climate change on forests. We hope to make a positive impact on people's opinions that can turn into policy change.The overarching research question is, how can the use of artistic and community science research methods help to inform and educate people about climate change? In particular, what can we learn from using artistic and community science research methods employing the Internet of Things (IoT), Acoustic Ecology and Creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in relation to monitoring forest behaviour and raising awareness about climate change? The project aims to raise awareness among forest visitors/aficionados, artists, scientists, and the general public about the connection between forests and climate change. Community building will centre on looking at a better understanding of forest behaviour using complex scientific data in creative and artistic ways. The project has three key objectives: (1) To make a one-year on-site and online artistic intervention in a UK-based forest using live scientific data and fostering acoustic ecology experiences. (2) To develop an in-house Internet of Things (IoT) prototype to measure variables related to tree stress, such as sap flow, air temperature, humidity and soil moisture to be piloted using community/citizen science methodologies connected to web applications for data analysis, visualisation and sonification. (3) To provide and disseminate tools, online resources, and pedagogic activities as well as to promote a discussion environment to foster awareness and engagement among the general public. We envision the combination of artistic and techno-scientific research methods to accomplish the project's objectives. Our methodologies are interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on finding new artistic, acoustic and audiovisual methods to understand environmental forest data. The project is novel because it brings an interdisciplinary team of artists and scientists together to work on a timely issue using an original approach to gaining knowledge about the connection between forests and climate change that can have a local, national and global impact. Both academics and non-specialists can benefit from this research. Academic fields include SMC/musicology, Human-Computer Interaction, Sonic Arts and Ecology.

气候变化是世界问题。气候变化的影响从世界上最新的自然灾害（例如欧洲的夏季干旱，南极冰融化，印度和巴基斯坦的洪水等）都可以清楚地看出。可以说，公众在地方一级缺乏可访问的科学信息，可以帮助他们就如何适应日常生活做出明智的决定，并为未来的民族适应气候变化做出贡献。森林丧失或森林砍伐是当代气候变化的原因之一。与天气天文台类似，存在森林观测者，它们产生大量的环境数据，这些数据需要专家科学家的分析和解释，通常在某种程度上不容易被一般公众挖掘。关于气候变化对森林的影响的许多科学研究都集中在有限数量的密集监控区域上。这缺乏广泛的地理变异性，在将其提升到区域或国家层面以进行决策时增加了不确定性。我们认为，对复杂数据提供艺术和简化的图形/声音解释以及监视附近树木的能力可以帮助提高人们对我们森林生态系统的气候变化引起的相关问题的认识，并为更广泛的地理数据可变性做出贡献。该项目将引起公众对气候变化造成的森林变化的关注。该项目通过辩论气候变化对森林的潜在毁灭性影响，为社区的艺术家，科学家和森林爱好者的建设做出了贡献。我们希望对人们的意见产生积极的影响，这些意见可以变成政策的变化。总体研究问题是，艺术和社区科学研究方法的使用如何有助于告知和教育人们有关气候变化的信息？特别是，我们可以从使用美术和社区科学研究方法中学到什么，采用物联网（IoT），声学生态学和创造性人工智能（AI）与监测森林行为并提高对气候变化的认识有关？该项目旨在提高森林游客/狂热者，艺术家，科学家和公众对森林与气候变化之间的联系的认识。社区建设将以创造性和艺术的方式以复杂的科学数据来更好地了解森林行为。该项目具有三个关键目标：（1）使用现场科学数据并培养声学生态经验，在英国森林中进行一年的现场和在线艺术干预。 （2）开发内部物联网（IoT）原型，以测量与树木压力相关的变量，例如SAP流量，空气温度，湿度和土壤水分，以使用与Web应用程序相关的社区/公民科学方法进行试验，以进行数据分析，可视化和超声。 （3）提供和传播工具，在线资源和教学活动，以及促进讨论环境以促进公众的意识和参与。我们设想艺术和科学科学研究方法的结合，以实现项目的目标。我们的方法是跨学科的，重点是寻找了解环境森林数据的新艺术，声学和视听方法。该项目之所以新颖，是因为它将跨学科的艺术家和科学家团队聚集在一起，使用原始方法及时地进行及时的问题，以获得有关森林与气候变化之间的联系的知识，这些方法可能会产生本地，国家和全球影响。学者和非专家都可以从这项研究中受益。学术领域包括SMC/音乐学，人类计算机互动，声音艺术和生态学。