A new tool was born to combat illegal deforestation and to ensure that furniture and wood purchases in general are environmentally friendly. application developed by GO TO IMAI It is designed to serve users, customs officers and security forces. It is an instrument that provides early warning in shipments made with suspicion about the species.
As reported on Monday by University related to GrenadeThe work of the Wood Identification and Artificial Intelligence Operational Group (GO IMAI) ended with this presentation. mobile application based on artificial intelligence and will facilitate the control of the timber trade.
Universities of Granada and Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Spanish Association of the Wood Trade and Industry (AEIM) created GO IMAI, the results of which represent a significant advance in the transparency of the international timber trade.
The IMAI Operational Group began work in May 2021 and is co-financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (FEADER) as part of the 2020 Call for Innovation Projects.
Wood from illegal trade
Project based needs of customs brokers, inspectors from the administration and State security forces and bodies, especially the Civil Guard’s Nature Conservation Service (Seprona), to have a tool that allows to create an early warning against them Consignment of suspected lumber from illegal trade.
Identification of wood only at the macroscopic level is currently not possible and requires the intervention of highly specialized personnel for identification and expert use with guarantees. Given this, the macroscopic anatomy of wood and artificial intelligence allowed researchers to work on the design and implementation of a tool that facilitated this identification simply and quickly by the agents themselves.
The project also aims to respond to other social challenges, helping to protect forests and biodiversity and thereby contributing to mitigating the effects of climate change.
Identification of tree species
results are the fruit of this nearly two years of collaboration and researchers’ experience in wood anatomy and artificial intelligence.
GO IMAI has developed a smart technological solution that recognizes a tree species with a high success rate in seconds from a photo taken with a magnifying glass attached to a mobile phone.
Throughout the process, the work team documented and photographed. 400 tree speciesdetermining settings for the most useful information from various mobile cameras and magnifying lenses.
Developed applications native and freeone of them for distribution view shopping centre and for execution on iPhone and second for distribution Google play and run it on Android.