Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects

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Autonomous camera traps for insects provide a tool for long-term remote monitoring of insects. These systems bring together cameras, computer vision, and autonomous infrastructure such as solar panels, mini computers, and data telemetry to collect images of insects.

With increasing recognition of the importance of insects as the dominant component of almost all ecosystems, there are growing concerns that insect biodiversity has declined globally, with serious consequences for the ecosystem services on which we all depend.

Automated camera traps for insects offer one of the best practical and cost-effective solutions for more standardised monitoring of insects across the globe. However, to realise this we need interdisciplinary teams who can work together to develop the hardware systems, AI components, metadata standards, data analysis, and much more.

This WILDLABS group has been set up by people from around the world who have individually been tackling parts of this challenge and who believe we can do more by working together.

We hope you will become part of this group where we share our knowledge and expertise to advance this technology.

Check out Tom's Variety Hour talk for an introduction to this group.

Learn about Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects by checking out recordings of our webinar series:

Meet the rest of the group and introduce yourself on our welcome thread - https://www.wildlabs.net/discussion/welcome-autonomous-camera-traps-insects-group

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Q&A: UK NERC £3.6m AI (image) for Biodiversity Funding Call - ask your questions here	This is super cool! Me and @Hubertszcz and @briannajohns and several others are all working towards some big biodiversity monitoring projects for a large conservation project here...		AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Funding and Finance	1 year 10 months ago
Best Material for Moth Lighting?	Plasticy substances like polyester can be slippery, so I imagine that's why cotton is most often used. White is good for color correction, while still reflecting light pretty well...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	1 year 11 months ago
360 Camera for Marine Monitoring	I agree, this would be great for canopy work!		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Emerging Tech, Marine Conservation	2 years ago
Insect camera traps for phototactic insects and diurnal pollinating insects	Hi Ross, Where exactly did you put the UV paint? Was it on the petals or the actual middle of the flowers? I would recommend switching from sugar paste to sugar water...	+8	Camera Traps, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years ago
Welcome to the Autonomous camera traps for insects group!	Greetings, everyone! I'm thrilled to join this wonderful community. I work as a postdoctoral researcher at MeBioS KU Leuven having recently completed my PhD on "Optical insect...	+11	Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years ago
New collaboration network - Computer vision for insects	A new COST action has been announced which will focus on the use of computer vision for monitoring insects.InsectAI will run for 4 years...		AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps	2 years 1 month ago
Capture And Identify Flying Insects	Hi there,I am also trying to get some visuals from wildlife cameras of insects visiting insect hotels. Was wondering if you had gained any further information on which cameras...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years 2 months ago
Hack a momentary on-off button	Further to @htarold 's excellent suggestion, you can replace that entire PCB with a simple USB breakout board (e.g. USB micro attached below) by removing the red wire and...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years 3 months ago
Who's going to ESA in Portland this year?	Indeed, I'll be there too! I like to meet new conservation friends with morning runs, so I will likely organize a couple of runs, maybe one right near the conference, and...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Geospatial	2 years 4 months ago
Camera to follow wasps/attach on wasps	Hi @ShwetaMukundan,this could be interesting for you:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abb0839https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwiHf2T9bLUhttps://edition.cnn.com/2020...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Sensors	2 years 4 months ago
Exploring storage options for mass data collection	Thank you so much for your reply! I'll look in to this now :)		Acoustics, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Geospatial, Software Development	2 years 4 months ago
Monitoring airborne biomass	Our project in very short is, setting up a sensor network for monitoring airborne biomass, mainly insects, birds and bats in near realtime, and to develop a forecast model to be...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Animal Movement, Geospatial, Sensors	2 years 4 months ago

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