IIT Kharagpur researchers 'develop' AI-based system to detect arsenic pollution
Hindustan Times (September 16, 2020)
The researchers have mapped the high and low arsenic zones across the entire Gangetic delta using artificial intelligence (AI) and the number of people exposed, IIT Kharagpur spokesperson said.
Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed an artificial intelligence-based prediction model for detecting arsenic pollution in drinking water, an official said on Wednesday.
The researchers have mapped the high and low arsenic zones across the entire Gangetic delta using artificial intelligence (AI) and the number of people exposed, IIT Kharagpur spokesperson said.
This study has been recently published in the international journal ‘Science of The Total Environment’.
“Our AI models predict the occurrence of high arsenic in groundwater across more than half of the Ganges river delta, covering more than 25 per cent area in each of the 19 out of 25 administrative zones in West Bengal,” one of the authors of the paper and research scholar Madhumita Chakraborty said. (Read More) (The KGP Chronicle article)