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Halden LabSchool of Computing · Kestrel Bay University

Coastal Sensing & Learning Group

We build sensors that live for years on wind and tide, and the learning systems that make sense of what they hear.

Our field sites are mangroves, seagrass meadows and reef flats.

Fig. 1 — TideNet node 17, Mangrove Point. 96 h water level (sample data).

Selected publications

2026

TideNet: Energy-Harvesting Sensor Meshes that Survive a Full Monsoon Season

Wei-Ting Chen, Haruka Sato, Mireille Okafor-Lin

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing (SenSys-F)

★ Best Paper AwardPDFCodeDOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{okaforlin2026tidenet,
  title     = {{TideNet}: Energy-Harvesting Sensor Meshes that Survive a Full Monsoon Season},
  author    = {Chen, Wei-Ting and Sato, Haruka and Okafor-Lin, Mireille},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing (SenSys-F)},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.0000/fictional.2026.0142}
}
2026

Counting Seagrass from Space and Shore: A Joint Satellite–Drone Benchmark

Haruka Sato, Idris Rahman, Mireille Okafor-Lin

Remote Sensing of Coastal Systems, 12(4): 211–229

DOI
BibTeX
@article{sato2026seagrass,
  title   = {Counting Seagrass from Space and Shore: A Joint Satellite--Drone Benchmark},
  author  = {Sato, Haruka and Rahman, Idris and Okafor-Lin, Mireille},
  journal = {Remote Sensing of Coastal Systems},
  volume  = {12},
  number  = {4},
  pages   = {211--229},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.0000/fictional.rscs.2026.04}
}
2025

Few-Shot Acoustic Classification of Reef Fish Choruses on a Microcontroller

Idris Rahman, Elin Lindqvist, Mireille Okafor-Lin

International Conference on Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML-F)

PDFCode
BibTeX
@inproceedings{rahman2025fewshot,
  title     = {Few-Shot Acoustic Classification of Reef Fish Choruses on a Microcontroller},
  author    = {Rahman, Idris and Lindqvist, Elin and Okafor-Lin, Mireille},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML-F)},
  year      = {2025}
}
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Latest news

  1. TideNet receives the Best Paper Award at SenSys-F 2026
  2. Welcome Kwame Osei
  3. Summer field season at Mangrove Point