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Wildflow Coral

Wildflow's platform for coral reefs, where divers upload footage and get georeferenced 3D models, orthomosaics and bathymetry for tracking a reef over time, with the stated aim of a digital twin of any reef.

Living systems

Wildflow describes itself as building multimodal foundation models for biodiversity, starting with coral reefs, and Wildflow Coral as its first product. The pages read do not name the company's people or location; the documentation links a founder's blog at nozdrenkov.com. The aim stated for Wildflow Coral is a digital twin of any reef that combines 3D photogrammetry, bioacoustics, underwater video, remote sensing, eDNA and environmental data such as currents, models population and energy dynamics, and reports health and resilience metrics, so that pressures like runoff, development and warming water can be quantified and restoration work coordinated.

What exists today is the data side. Dive teams, researchers, restoration practitioners and robotics operators upload footage from action cameras, phones, DSLRs or ROVs, or photogrammetry datasets, and get 3D models viewable in a browser and shareable by link, plus georeferenced, colour-corrected orthomosaics and bathymetry at sub-centimetre resolution for tracking change between surveys, including outplant survival and growth. Donors, partners and the public can view sites and progress.

The platform code is on GitHub under the MIT licence; its README calls it an open marine biodiversity data platform in early development, with a prototype for uploading CSV observations and joining them with environmental data. Cost is not stated.

Status: prototype. The homepage offers a prototype to try and the repository describes early development; no dates are given.

homepage
https://wildflow.ai/

Tags: coral, reef, photogrammetry, restoration, monitoring, open source

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