Reef Pulse

More than a billion people depend on coral reefs. However, 90% of these ecosystems could disappear by 2050 due to climate change and the unreasonable use of marine space for professional and recreational purposes. The strength of Reef Pulse, an impact-based company, is based on three expertises: it combines the temporal coverage of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (#PAM), the analytical power of Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and knowledge of the ecology of coral reefs in order to ensure their monitoring and restoration. 1 The first step in our approach consists of deploying hydrophones around coral reefs in order to record ambient underwater sounds. Reef Pulse now has a long-term database (several years of recording) characterizing the soundscape (acoustic landscape) of coral reefs in three oceans. 2 Secondly, we analyze this acoustic data with AI algorithms dedicated to the detection of underwater sounds of interest for the assessment of the ecological state of coral reefs. 3 ...