For more than 16 years, Indonesian fisherman Dedi Arianto relied largely on his instinct as he ventured out into the Java Sea every day on his boat. But he could never be certain about the size of his catch. Then two years ago, officials from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) visited his village and demonstrated an AI-based mobile application they said would take the guesswork out of fishing.
The NN Marlin application can locate the densest fishing grounds based on the sea surface temperature and the level of chlorophyll. The app uses machine learning to crunch satellite data and remote sensing to identify schools of fish within a certain radius.
