Rivers don’t just disappear without a trace.
For this International Day of Action for Rivers, we’re using AI and historic maps to find lost habitats, and infer where rivers once shaped the land.
Historic maps hold the data, but we need to query them at scale to make it useful.
ALT A historic map showing landscapes in 1900. @NLS
ALT AI-digitised Lost Habitats dataset highlighting former marshes
ALT Lost Habitats compared to modern day rivers