https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rV8mlnBmIg

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H7WvIGShHVummg2u5vgx-6bfieVbzi0E/view?usp=sharing

We need to talk about insects.

A possible catastrophic extinction

Recently, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), presented reports created from the research of dozens of insect experts on the situation of insects around the world.

The threats to insects described in the reports point to various causes such as deforestation, climate change, competition with invasive species for food and resources, as well as pesticides and other pesticides used in agriculture to combat pests and the incidence of lights. in cities at night as an intervening factor between the prey-predator relationship.

Although they are different threats, they all derive from human action on the environment, a study commissioned by the British organization South West Wildlife Trusts from the University of Sussex indicates that half of all insects may have been lost since 1970 as a result of destruction of nature by the intervention of human activities and the industrial revolution. Intensive use of pesticides and that around 40% of the million known species of insects are at risk of extinction.

The loss of these populations of insects would cause an ecological imbalance in their habitat, in addition it would harm the world food supply and the production of flowers and fruits by pollination, affecting the living conditions of the entire planet. In addition, insects are important agents in the recycling of nutrients, decomposition of organic matter and as food for other animals: 80% of wild plants depend on pollination by insects and 60% of birds feed on these insects.

AI Titan Gaya

Titan Gaya is a technology that aims to maintain the preservation of the biodiversity of insects that in recent years has been so affected. Through this AI and together with a bio-inspired system, data from NASA satellites are received, the information is organized and processed, presenting optimization routes for biological corridors, thus determining the best travel factors for these little friends. In addition, the registration of all this information helps to predict important events and changes in these routes, however, it also detects alleged actions or natural phenomena that put the continuity of these small pollinators at risk.

Currently it is practically impossible to count all the members of an insect species. Since it is very difficult to determine the true distribution of species, the approach we present is to use an AI to predict the possibility of a species surviving in a habitat, Titan Gaya would have access to the cloud

from which it would receive environmental data. characteristics of suitable species habitats. the preservation of that species, as well as information on known occurrences of a species in a habitat.

Titan Gaya must estimate the possibility that a species exists in regions that have the same habitat conditions, but there is no monitoring of the population of this species and there is data on the absence of a species in a given region

Technologies

The language chosen to program the AI Titan Gaya is Python, one of the most widely used languages in the field of AI, due to its simplicity and ease of communicating with different devices, allowing its integration with different systems, such as devices. with embedded systems, servers and digital and cloud applications.

Satellites - are powerful search and data collection tools, essential to supply Titan Gaya with the information necessary to carry out its functions, among the satellites would be those in charge of collecting data and information from space with the Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Biodiversity-related spectroscopic data can be obtained through hyperspectral remote sensing, a powerful technique for mapping and studying biodiversity; hyperspectral data allow direct detection of species presence, distribution, species abundance, and prevalence of invasive species. In the same way that satellites feed data banks (MODSI) of Vegetation indices; Dynamics of land cover; The type of land cover that Titan Gaya would use to understand, pattern, and make predictions.

Probes: these are instruments capable of measuring atmospheric parameters, such as temperature, pressure and humidity from multispectral information, it’s necessary.

Application

Distribution map

Titan Gaya would use worldview data to produce a distribution map of insect species in the monitored regions, new species would appear as they were cataloged and entered into its database, the AI ​​would also receive relevant information related to the species it knows, it would also report changes in the parameters related to the species in the monitored regions.

Smart monitoring

Titan Gaya not only tracks insect species, but from the insertion of new data to recognize new local species or invasive species and from the data collected over time, it should identify movement patterns of these species, recognize migration routes and make estimates based on this information.

By monitoring these populations and receiving certain indicators, Titan Gaya would warn of possible Risk Zones, places with vulnerable factors for the life of these insect populations, the insertion of these danger zones on the map would indicate to the scientific community, protective organizations and governmental agencies that this region has an impact on the maintenance of local biodiversity.

Similarly, monitoring regions with low indicators of risk factors for the life of these populations would indicate regions that still maintain the necessary conditions to keep these populations exempt, so Titan Gaya should identify by comparing these regions of higher and lower degree of risk and the pattern of these insect populations with the help of an ecological corridor through which the transit of these populations would be carried out safely.

The purpose of monitoring and creating these green corridors would be to preserve the biodiversity of insects since these are fundamental for the preservation of the entire ecosystem. These changes in the patterns of the insects would serve as a warning and would aim for a preventive intervention, all this in order to preserve biodiversity and prevent problems in the entire chain of living beings.

The Central American Commission for Environment and Development defines a biological corridor as "a delimited geographic space that provides connectivity between landscapes, ecosystems and habitats, natural or modified, and ensures the maintenance of biological diversity and ecological and evolutionary processes."

Several countries, such as Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Bhutan and Spain, among others, have designed and implemented corridors as a conservation strategy and a practical measure to counteract the loss of biodiversity. Currently, the present climate change is happening much faster than previous climate changes. Therefore, the corridors become more important, since the landscape has been substantially transformed, creating obstacles for species to change their distribution as an adaptive measure to global warming, so it is necessary to maintain and restore corridors that allow this adaptation.

For this, it is necessary to use a technology such as Titan Gaya capable of helping in the identification and monitoring of these preservation corridors, not only for the preservation of insect populations, but also to act to preserve the biodiversity of an entire ecosystem.

Bio-inspired systems

Titan Gaya is inspired by the technologies of a "bio-inspired system", with the aim of helping to prevent environmental problems, especially those related to biodiversity. Bio-inspired systems are those that are based on behavior and the way certain biological systems act. What better way to solve problems than with those kept by animals or systems that continue to evolve. These systems have formed a catalyst within AI (Artificial Intelligence) because they are capable of minimizing the computation time of certain complex mathematical problems such as the Traveling Salesman Problem or the Philosopher

 The system would be used to optimize the search for patterns and factors that intervene in biological corridors, such as data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and data banks (MODSI) of Vegetation Indices, land cover dynamics, the type of land, among others. Along with the estimation of monitored insect populations, abiotic factors and alert routes.

Adding these data to a complement to determine the best routes and conditions of the biological corridors. Being able to obtain periodic information and see how these present variability according to all the factors.

Information access and distribution

Titan Gaya is a technology designed to democratize scientific knowledge, it must be able to communicate with various devices and applications so that anyone can have access to the information it produces, such as the map of insect populations in a region, relevant information on monitored species biological corridors, risk zones, identified variables that affect the populations of insects in a region or their migratory patterns.

Comparison of recent data with other previous data provides information on significant changes in a monitored region and triggers alerts to accredited bodies, such as research centers and universities, non-governmental conservation organizations and responsible government bodies, in this way if Titan Gaya identifies threats to these populations in the monitoring of the regions, it will be possible to act favorably with these organisms that contribute to the ecological balance

We used Worldview to find information on the distribution of animal populations in addition to subsets of vegetation data from the moderate resolution image spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites,

I have always admired nature, from the nuances in its colors, its sizes, shapes and sounds, I enjoy both observing a landscape of the sky, as following the path of ants, seeing a butterfly fly, or finding different insects in my backyard. or the internet, and boy have I been surprised with the lives of these little beings, however, there are even more, many people do not know how indispensable and wonderful they are, many people lack that knowledge and that is why they carry out harmful actions in the preservation of these species. That is why finding a team that synchronized with my ideas and that also has the same passion and vision about the contribution we can make to help our little friends ... that was really inspiring, knowing that there are more people working on creative and effective solutions for these living beings so dazzling.

DAY 1

Thursday (October 29th) in the morning we begin our journey: We bundle all our ideas into a document in docs format. We had a lot of ideas, we were very excited and eager to do our best, our sweat at worklot of  

DAY 2

On the same Thursday night, we did aresearch to support our project and we structured it. The same night we distributed the tasks, each member got some tasks.

The same Thursday night we compiled our information and finished investigating the last details to argue our project and structure it. That night we distributed the activities and each member received the corresponding

DAY 3

On Friday we began scripting and producing the video and slides. In the video, one illustrated, another put music and the voice of the narrator, and a member who narrated the video in English.

On the slide, one selected images and summarized concerns to put text, another structured the slides, and one member translated everything into English.

DAY 4

Saturday at 9:30 am and my team was already in full swing. we create mass-ordered data> we create files with the sources consulted, files from the pilot version project, we subtitle and narrate our video, files with summaries. 

We discuss every detail;

Then the time came… I had to name the AI, and the leader had already decided that he wanted something from Greek mythology. I suggested “Eros” which is the famous “Cupid”, god of love, to represent the love of nature, but it didn't represent the magnitude of the project. At that moment I remembered a philosophy class I had that talked about the beginnings of the earth, in the Greek conception of myths. 

In that class I discovered that in the beginning there were titans, and the primordial titan of nature was Gaya. Her name, Gaya, means to build; And she represented all of nature and its harmony. Then came the missing complement, the leader called the Titan, which squeezed every last drop of meaning out of this titanic project. 

We reached an agreement. It would be called AI Titan Gaya, a hefty name, for a hefty design. 

 And we even discussed scripting the AI Titan Gaya to illustrate how it would work.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - Insects and recent climate change - PNAS January 12, 2021 - https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2002543117

New report reveals true impact of insect apocalypse and calls for urgent action - sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/50282

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/biodiversity/species-distribution

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

GBIF - GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility Free and open access to biodiversity data

https://honeybeenet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Data Pathfinder | Earthdata (nasa.gov)

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/biodiversity

https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/

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