Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects

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Tom August

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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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WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 – MothBox	Gotcha, well I look forward to seeing future iterations and following along with your progress!!		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Latin America Community	1 year 3 months ago
Mothbox v3.2 Updates - Solar, HDR, Wifi Hotspots, and More!	More cool things surrounding the Mothbox project keep happening! Here’s a recap of cool developments over the past month!New Teammate! Bri...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community	1 year 3 months ago
Useful Script to easily program the Pijuice and Schedule Raspberry Pi happenings	For our [mothbox project](https://forum.openhardware.science/c/projects/mothbox/73) we are programming pijuices and pis to automatically...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	1 year 4 months ago
Useful Pi Script for Backing Up	Hi, I made a little utility script that folks here might find useful (or might have MUCH BETTER VERSIONS OF! and if so, let me know!) ...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	1 year 5 months ago
Mothbox + Mothbeam Update: 4	We did some more testing with the Mothbeam in the forest. It's the height of dry season right now, so not many moths came out, but the mothbeam shined super bright and attracted a...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community	1 year 5 months ago
Underwater camera trap - call for early users	Hi Danilo, yes just in time ;-)		Camera Traps, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	1 year 6 months ago
Testing Raspberry Pi cameras: Results	Yep, here:Currently it only installs on older Jetsons as in the coming weeks I’ll finish the install code for current jetsons.Technically speaking, if you were an IT specialist...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps	1 year 7 months ago
Update 3: Cheap Automated Mothbox	Great work! I very much look forward to trying out the MothBeam light. That's going to be a huge help in making moth monitoring more accessible.And well done digging into the...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community	1 year 7 months ago
Project introductions and updates	The preprint to our camera trap paper is now available at bioRxiv.	+23	Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	1 year 8 months ago
Update 2: Cheap Automated Mothbox	Thanks a lot for this detailed update on your project! It looks great!		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community	1 year 9 months ago
Cheap Automated Mothbox	It depends on which scientists you talk to. I am an favor of just doing a timelapse and doing a post-processing sort afterwards. There's not much reason i can see for such motion...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Latin America Community	1 year 9 months ago
Metadata standards for Automated Insect Camera Traps	For anyone interested: the GBIF guide Best Practices for Managing and Publishing Camera Trap Data is still open for review and feedback until next week. More info can be found in...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps	1 year 9 months ago

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