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Animal Movement / Feed

Animal movement technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of wildlife, revealing insights like migration patterns, key corridors, and the impacts of mounting pressures on natural systems. As we continue to develop these tools and work toward translating movement data into actionable insights, coordination between efforts is essential. This group is a place for the animal movement community to connect and discuss our efforts to advance the field.

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discussion

Elephant Collar

Daniel Kibe

11 June 2022 3:53pm

Elephant CollarsTechnology For Wildlife Africa Collar specsPosition acquisition: GPS for positions with user defined averaging function...

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Rob Appleby

16 June 2022 11:33pm

Great work @kangs and Technology For Wildlife Africa! Can I ask, what's the collar material made out of? 

Cheers,

Rob

Daniel Kibe

25 June 2022 3:26pm

its nylon rubber material

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discussion

Virtual Meetup Discussion: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology

Talia Speaker

7 June 2022 9:38pm

Hi everyone, Tomorrow, June 8, is our fourth and final WILDLABS Virtual Meetup in this Tracking Progress series - we are thrilled to have such an awesome...

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Akiba

11 June 2022 4:42pm

We've actually been looking into NFC to automatically provision field devices to set/read/store metadata. We're staring down the barrel of a large deployment and metadata is one of the issues that we think really needs automation. We're thinking of having a dedicated device to write and read the tags that would go on the devices as stickers and automagically sync the metadata with the database. An added bonus would be that most recently modern phones support NFC protocols like NTAG or MiFare Classic. That would mean that they could also be both read and written with the GPS coordinates, timestamp, etc as they're deployed in the field. It's still under discussion with the many other things that need to be implemented, though. I do think it's interesting that what we're seeing in a lot of conservation technology applications is not just a need for new technology but also the less exciting but more practical need for things that improve productivity like automating metadata management. 

David Savage

12 June 2022 1:08am

Using NFC makes a lot of sense too. I'm just on an older lower-end device that doesn't support it, which is why it didn't pop immediately to mind. Would be interesting to see what the adoption rate for NFC-capable phones is across countries though I'd imagine some phone manufacturer or something already has that data.

Akiba

12 June 2022 2:29am

A bit opposite of what you're looking for but according to this, the share of non-NFC enabled phones was 10% in 2020. They don't state their source unless you pay, but I suspect that's in terms of total phone models, not total phones in use. So it's highly likely that phones with no NFC in use is much higher than that. 

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discussion

Heart rate detected with accelerometers

Max Czapanskiy

1 June 2022 11:41pm

Hi everyone! I'm new to WildLabs, so I wanted to introduce myself by sharing some of my recent research. We demonstrated that (under the right conditions) high-resolution...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

2 June 2022 8:08am

Hi Max, 

Well firstly, welcome! This is a great intro - I'm looking forward to having a poke around these links and reading more about your work. Sounds like you might well be interested in the topic of our meetup next week - we'll be talking about the future of biologging and biologging, the emerging tech and questions we should be paying attention to. I can't remember if I've seen your name pop up in our last few events, but hopefully  will see you there! More below if you're interested!

Steph 

https://wildlabs.net/event/wildlabs-virtual-meetup-future-questions-tools-movement-ecology

 

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discussion

Argos satellite tag open-source grant

Thomas Gray

14 August 2020 5:43pm

Hello everyone,  I hope everyone is doing well in light of the global and local issues we all deal with on a regular basis. (Not fun!) I am working on announcing a...

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Thomas Gray

26 August 2020 4:07pm

The official announcement went out yesterday - https://mailchi.mp/1e130f609ed2/august2020?e=[UNIQID]

Thomas Gray

31 May 2022 3:56pm

We are still running this grant program albeit with subtle changes to improve the hardware/service agreement (in your favor). 


If you want to build your own tag, have a passion for open-source, and at minimum have a North American ship-to address, reach out.

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event

WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology

WILDLABS Team

26 April 2022 12:00am

Our second meetup in Season 4 explored the latest advancements and emerging developments in data analysis for movement ecology. On Wednesday, May 11, we heard short talks from leading experts Sara Beery, Somayeh Dodge, ...

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discussion

Firetail - visualization of tracks and sensor data

Lars Holst Hansen

9 April 2022 5:12pm

I have recently been closely cooperating with the develpopers of the Firetail software - a program to visualize tracking and sensor data for movement ecology - to get them to...

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Tobias Petri

22 April 2022 7:21am

Hi Lars,

thanks a lot for the recommendation and this great use case!

Our team at Firetail is very enthusiastic about pushing the boundaries for the visualization and annotation of large datasets and it is great to see our work towards a Vectronic acceleration workflow was successul.

If there are researchers on wildlabs that are interested in the process, we should compile a short step-by-step tutorial. This would help to get started with Vectronic acc visuals/annotation.

In general: Firetail is not limited to specific tags vendors. We aim to support a complete set of GPS/Acceleration/Sensor data... if you experience problems with your data sets, don't hesitate to contact us!

Tobias

Tobias Petri

22 April 2022 7:47am

Hi Truphena,

Firetail is designed with animal telemetry in mind. But, you could import any kind of data that features latitute, longitude and some kind of ID (plus whatever sensors you have) like ship vessels, air traffic and so on. It is mostly a matter of getting the formats straight, but our support can help you with that.

Some adaptions may be required, but Firetail has grown with the community use cases from day one, we do not intend to change this any time soon.

What kind of data are you working on?

A good place to start may be the manual or, as Lars mentionend, our video tutorials (I linked the beginner's tutorial). You can also contact our support for specific questions.

Tobias

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careers

Opportunities: PhD Graduate Assistantship

Ellie Warren

8 March 2022 12:00am

The University of Maine is seeking qualified applicants for a PhD position that will focus on migration ecology of American woodcock and utilizes GPS transmitter to collect migration data.  Apply by 1st April 2022 for...

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discussion

Dog GPS Loggers

Roland Kays

21 December 2021 8:06pm

Hi Everyone We'd like to do some pet dog tracking but are having a hard time finding a good tag.  We used to use i-got-U's but they don't seem to be available...

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Rob Appleby

19 February 2022 11:20pm

@alsnothome the SnapperGPS looks sooooooo SWEET!. I am super-duper keen to try it out! 

Amanda Matthes

20 February 2022 10:50am

I'm co-developing SnapperGPS as part of my PhD. We're currently working on getting a release on GroupGets. Everything is moving a little slowly because of the chip shortage, though.

Happy to hear there's interest!

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