Geospatial Group Café April 22
21 April 2025 6:47pm
Beyond the Tech Hype / Más Allá del Hype Tecnológico
21 April 2025 3:59pm
Drone & ai use for uncovering illegal logging camps
21 April 2025 4:49am
WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 - Enhancing Pollinator Conservation through Deep NeuralNetwork Development
7 April 2024 5:55pm
18 April 2025 10:33pm
Hi Kim,
That's really interesting! I didn't realize thermal worked with bees! Thanks so much for sharing that detail.
Liz
19 April 2025 12:40pm
Great work! Do you think the night time models also worked better due to lack of interference from shadows being counted? or maybe issues around a non-standard background.
If it helps, I believe the creators of InsectDetect which is open source, did a lot of work training their model to differentiate insect shadows vs. insects. Also after testing their smart trap on flowers, went with a standardised, non-lethal attractive background.
InsectDetect: Build your own insect-detecting camera trap!
20 April 2025 5:14pm
Hey Amber, that makes a lot of sense! And this effort by Insect Detect is amazing, thanks for sharing!
MyProgress: Advancing GIS and R programming skills.
20 April 2025 1:45pm
AI/ML opportunities
14 April 2025 4:47am
19 April 2025 2:08am
Ritika,
All the best! I hope someone provides a more substantive answer!
I have also graduated with masters in AI and ML recently. Difference being I am at the end of my IT career. I am looking for a career switch to biodiversity, wildlife conservation, sustainability or climate change.
I am trying to do my best to do modern job search. Just warming up to it. LinkedIn, posting relevant posts, being consistent. Virtual networking. In person networking. Being a soon to be fresh graduate, you have access to a huge student networking and academic circle. Keep hitting them consistently and I am sure you will find something.
Share the good news when it happens. :)
Introducción al uso de Kaleidoscope Pro para Murciélagos (Principiante)
18 April 2025 3:50pm
Global Science Data Management and AI Graduate Intern
18 April 2025 2:52pm
Enterprise Geospatial Undergraduate Intern
18 April 2025 2:50pm
FROM VULNERABILITY TO SECURITY: INSPIRING COEXISTENCE THROUGH A RESILIENT BOMA
17 April 2025 8:41pm
WILDLABS-WWF Graduate Intern
WILDLABS Team
and 1 more
17 April 2025 6:06pm
Catch up with The Variety Hour: April 2025
16 April 2025 5:00pm
¡Bienvenidos a la comunidad Latinoamericana! // Welcome to the Latin American community!
30 September 2024 5:05pm
6 October 2024 4:11pm
Bem-vindo Rafael!!
16 April 2025 4:40pm
Hola. Me gusto la idea! prefiero en español, mas que nada en todo este tema de informatica, etc, que ya posee un alto grado de dificultad. Aca en Argentina estoy trabajando con anfibios y grabadoras digitales automaticas, ahora comenzando a explorar sobre detección automatica o semiautomatica.
16 April 2025 4:52pm
Bienvenido Maxi!
Ground Truth: How Are You Verifying What Maps Show?
Léa Smadja
and 1 more
16 April 2025 3:35pm
Dual-/Multi-Use Technology Strategies
1 April 2025 11:46pm
15 April 2025 6:17pm
That is a great point and the current international trade climate has been making supply chain even more difficult. This also deeply affects US companies given much of the US goods manufacturing and assembly happening in China. Over the last few years, I have been seeing US hardware companies (e.g. drone platform and component OEMs) sourcing their goods from India, Turkey, Canada, and more recently in African and South American nations. Because of the last 3-to-5 years of increasingly restrictive and costly international hardware trade, there has been a emergence of specialized component manufacturers internationally. For European companies interested in providing hardware services to the US, I would suggest diversifying the supply chain beyond China. Given the current climate and trends, that added supply chain resilience may be a good idea, regardless of work with the US.
15 April 2025 7:36pm
This is more than the supply chain though. The point was the company itself cannot use any tech for anything from the 5x companies. So in my case my ISP is incompatible. Essentially I see the only companies making that kind of sacrifice are ones that want to devote themselves to defence only.
Of course. That’s US defense as a customer. European defence is fully on the table.
It’s just sad that it’s not restricted to defence. US government wildlife organisations cannot buy European tech unless that European company was pure in their eyes.
15 April 2025 8:37pm
True, the US ecosystem is a challenging space right now, for basically all sectors.
We should not let the US chaos prevent us from engaging with opportunities in other nations' multi-use markets. A company's ability and journey to tap into other markets is very unique to them (product, team, finances, infrastructure, agility), and some simply cannot adapt. There is no one size fits all (or even most) solution when it comes to multi-use strategies. It is important that we are systematic about evaluating the cost to adapt our product-service to a different market, and the value of new opportunities in that new market, without losing track of underlying conservation and social good needs.
Off-The-Shelf Drones & Open Source GIS Software for Dam Site Surveying?
15 April 2025 3:57pm
Overview of terrestrial audio recorders with associated metadata info
15 April 2025 2:53pm
Frontiers | Key Issues for Realizing Open Ecoacoustic Monitoring in Australia
Many organizations are attempting to scale ecoacoustic monitoring for conservation but are hampered at the stages of data management and analysis. We reviewe...
Geospatial Group Café (April)
Elsa Carla De Grandi
and 2 more
15 April 2025 11:38am
21 April 2025 4:59pm
23 April 2025 9:17am
WILDLABS Climate Week Conservation Tech Meetup: Washington, DC
Alex Rood
and 2 more
14 April 2025 6:47pm
Conservation Applications for Google Solar API
12 April 2025 11:35am
14 April 2025 12:54pm
Do you know if there are plans to expand this beyond the global North? Many folks in this community are living and/or working outside of the areas where this dataset is limited to and thus would not be able to make use of it.
14 April 2025 6:27pm
Yes, I know about this big limitation,
As far as I know they are working to increase the coverage available for this solution.
For trusted developers, there are more regions available.
More information about the coverage can be found here:
DeepFaune v.1.3 is out!
14 April 2025 3:50pm
Papers about gender and disability in conservation tech
21 March 2025 4:56pm
11 April 2025 10:26pm
Wow, thanks for sharing @Nycticebus_scientia. Would love to read further papers on these topics if folks have them!
scikit-maad community
8 August 2024 10:16am
19 February 2025 10:26am
Hello!
I could be wrong, but from looking at the source code of the ACI calculation on the scikit-maad it appears that it autosets j = length of signal. If you want to break it down to e.g. 5 windows you can break the spectrogram into 5 chunks along time and then sum the ACI in each window. This gives a more similar result to the results you got using the other methods. What did you set as nbwindows for seewave?
s, fs = maad.sound.load('test_data_ACI/LINE_2003-10-30_20_00_34.wav')
Sxx, tn, fn, ext = maad.sound.spectrogram (s, fs, mode='amplitude')
full_time = Sxx.shape[1] # number of time samples in spectrogram
j_count = 5 # number of chunks we want to break it into
window_size = np.floor(full_time/j_count) # total time divided by number of chunks = number of time samples per chunk
ACI_tot = 0
for i in range(j_count):
_, _ , ACI = maad.features.acoustic_complexity_index(Sxx[:,int(i*window_size):int(i*window_size+window_size)])
ACI_tot = ACI_tot + int(ACI)
This gives ACI_tot = 1516
6 March 2025 11:07am
Hi all,
I have recently been utilising the ROI module of scikit-maad to locate non-biophonic sounds across low-sample rate Arctic hydrophone datasets and have a query about how ROI centroids are calculated...
Looking at the source code for the function "centroid_features" in .\maad\features\shape.py, I can see that the function calls "center_of_mass" from .\scipy\ndimage\_measurements.py. This to me suggests that the centroid should be placed where energy is focussed, i.e. the middle of the acoustic signature captured by the masking stage of ROI computations.
I'm a bit confused as to why the centroids I have appear to be more or less placed in the centre of the computed ROIs, regardless of the energy distribution within the ROI. The sounds I'm capturing have energy focussed towards lower frequencies of the ROI bands, so I would have expected the centroid to shift downwards as well.
Has anyone modified how ROI centroids are defined in their work? I'd be quite interested to set up centroids to signify where the peak energy level lies in the ROI, but I'm not quite sure how to do this cleanly.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Kind regards,
Jonathan
11 April 2025 10:08pm
We are pleased to announce the latest release with several important enhancement, fixes and documentation improvements to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of SciPy and scikit-image as well as with Xeno-Canto.
In this new version, 2 new alpha indices are implemented, aROI and nROI, the latter being a good proxy of the average species richness per 1 min soundscape.
Releases · scikit-maad/scikit-maad · GitHub
Open-source and modular toolbox for quantitative soundscape analysis in Python - Releases · scikit-maad/scikit-maad
Expert feedback wanted: Energy Harvesting
13 March 2025 12:40pm
11 April 2025 10:57am
Hi, we've gotten more than 20 replies until now so thank you if you took the time to answer.
And we would really appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to answer if you haven't by now!
Thank you,
David, Kinect team
Convocatoria BID 2025: América Latina y Caribe
10 April 2025 6:38pm
Remote downloads of camera traps
10 April 2025 4:24pm
Evaluation of Global Forest Watch
17 March 2025 4:51pm
9 April 2025 8:05pm
Hi @iainmcnicol , welcome to WILDLABS! Thanks for posting this on here. I have shared with my colleagues at Fauna & Flora who have some experience (especially with the deforestation alerts) and could maybe provide feedback as well. We also have a page on 'The Inventory' where we're asking people to review various data products, tools, platforms etc including one for Global Forest Watch. As you can see not many reviews currently so it would be great (if possible by anonymising responses etc.) to get the information from your survey and translate this into something we could add to 'The Inventory' for the wider community. Let me know your thoughts on this!
Also is there a closing date for the survey?
IR drone image processing: Pix4d vs Agisoft Metashape for Autel Drone
9 April 2025 6:06pm
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant 2025
9 April 2025 5:45pm
21 April 2025 12:49pm
Hi Adam!
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you. I have not used radar systems or AI systems for this sort of detection, but there are methods using change detection models to visualise changes in forests where logging may be occuring between different dates using drone photogrammetry and GIS software. I have found these methods very effective when monitoring deforestation, especially because not only can you quickly visualise where deforestation has happened, but you can also quantify the damage at the same time. Let me know if you would like to learn more.
Kind regards
Sean Hill