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CGI and Project Seagrass release new open-source algorithm to help mitigate climate change
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n CGI and Project Seagrass release new open-source algorithm to help mitigate climate change\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntar{\nTEXT-ALIGN: RIGHT\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n Stock Market Symbols\n \n \n \n GIB (NYSE)\n \n \n \n GIB.A (TSX)\n \n \n \n cgi.com/newsroom\n \n \n \n \n \n LONDON\n \n \n ,\n \n \n March 1, 2023\n \n \n /CNW/ - As part of its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy, CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has partnered with Project Seagrass, a global charity devoted to seagrass conservation, to develop an open-source algorithm that helps locate, quantify and track seagrass meadows initially across the UK region. The new algorithm launches today, the United Nation's first-ever World Seagrass Day.\n \n \n CGI and\n \n Project Seagrass\n \n have developed the algorithm to support academic and government plans for protecting vital seagrass ecosystems, which, in turn, help to mitigate climate change.\n \n \n \n Tara McGeehan\n \n , President of CGI in the UK and\n \n Australia\n \n , said: \"At CGI, we support the no planet B initiative. As such, we are consciously trying to support our planet and its resources to protect future generations. By leveraging our IP, and through our pro-bono collaboration with Project Seagrass, the development of an open-source algorithm has been an important milestone for us. We now hope to continue to work to enhance the algorithm in partnership with open-source community organizations, academia, and government.\"\n \n \n The open-source algorithm is designed to pinpoint and quantify seagrass meadows as part of CGI's proprietary\n \n CGI GeoData360\n \n Earth observation data processing platform, which leverages data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Satellite Earth Observation Mission and processes it via the seagrass identification algorithm. The CGI GeoData360 platform and the ESA Earth observation imagery can be trained to create new algorithms which could be used to deliver seagrass identifications anywhere in the world with access to relevan...