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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.

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Powerful conservation tech tools are gathering more data in the field than ever before. But without equally powerful and effective data management and processing tools, that data - no matter how groundbreaking or interesting - will not be able to reach its full potential for impact.

Data management can sometimes seem intimidating to conservationists, especially those just getting started in the world of conservation tech or experimenting with new data collection methods. While every community member's workflow and preferred data management and processing methods may be different, this group can serve as a resource to explore what works for others, share your own advice, and develop new strategies together.

Below are a few WILDLABS events dealing with datasets collected from various conservation tech tools:

Nicole Flores: How do I get started with Wildlife Insights?

Jamie Macaulay: How do I analyse large acoustic datasets using PAMGuard?

Sarah Davidson: Tools for Bio-logging Data in Conservation

Whatever conservation tech tools you work with, and whatever your preferred data management methods, we hope you'll find something helpful and effective in this group when you become a member!

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@Lilli
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Ocean nerd, personally and professionally 🌊Engagement Coordinator for FathomNet and FathomVerse

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@mkclapp
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avian ecologist, audiophile, mountain lake enthusiast

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@denizgoek

I am a Geoscientist interested in using geospatial data science to contribute to solutions of today’s environmental challenges. I mostly worked with land surafce temperature data from satellites and drones to study how high mountain landscapes respond to climate change.

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@Helga_Kuechly
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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

I am a Geo-ecologist, who loves to use GIS, remote sensing, citizen science and knowledge transfer to shape for a better future for nature - We are part of nature, so let's act like it!

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@theabmi

Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) & SENSR

We track changes in wildlife and their habitats in Alberta, working collaboratively to provide ongoing, relevant, scientifically credible information.

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@Lnovo

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PhD student at the University of Zürich (CH) in PopEcol group, working with camera traps and mammals

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@LucyD
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Software developer and wildlife ecologist

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@nabilla.nuril
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University College London (UCL)

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@cpignata
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Duke University

https://bluefern.consulting/carlos

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@Bajoga_aliyu
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Conservationist and circular economy expert dedicated to biodiversity preservation and climate action. Operations Room Assistant at WCS Nigeria, Yankari Game Reserve. Co-Founder, Ecology Students Forum. Committed to fostering sustainable peace and environmental sustainability.

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Video evidence for the evaluation of behavioral state predictions	No, not yet. The player we attached does support slower/faster replay up to a certain precision, but I'm not sure that this will be sufficiently precise for the kind of offsets we...		Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Sensors, Software Development	5 months ago
Firetail 13 - now available	and a short contribution in this e-obs setup, where we used Firetail VideoSync to analyze motion-triggered camera footage:		Software Development, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools	5 months ago
Detecting Thrips and Larger Insects Together	So, updated the text a bit with images cropped at 100% zoom :) we are already happy with the time reductions we got, but... would like to get at least 90% time reduction instead...		Data management and processing tools, Latin America Community, Sensors	5 months ago
Mirror images - to annotate or not?	Seems like we should include some rotations in our image augmentations as the real world can be seen a bit tilted - as this cropped corner view from our fisheye at the zoo shows.	+13	AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools	5 months 1 week ago
Conservation Data Strategist?	Bird Monitoring Data Exchange is a standard often used for birds data.	+4	AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech	5 months 3 weeks ago
unsupervised machine learning to infer syntax and temporal organisations of animal vocalizations	Super interesting work! Maybe one day you will also be able to have a career as a science fiction writer. Lot of interesting outcomes can come of this. ❤️		Acoustics, Data management and processing tools, Early Career	5 months 3 weeks ago
Need advice on data for an app that recommends plants.	It's a really good question, Colleen!Ideally, I would work with two developers, or at least one developer and one other party who knows what developing an app like this would mean...		Data management and processing tools, Software Development	6 months ago
Automatic extraction of temperature/moon phase from camera trap video	Hi Lucy,I now realised it is an old thread and you most likely have already found a solution long ago but this might be of interest to others.As mentioned previously, it is...	+5	Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	6 months 3 weeks ago
Support no-code custom AI for camera trap images by filling out this survey	Do you use camera traps? If so, we'd love if you could take five minutes to fill out this survey: tinyurl.com/zambasurveyWith our WILDLABS...		AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software Development, Open Source Solutions	7 months 2 weeks ago
Looking for a Technical Co-founder/CTO - Native Plant Platform	Hi all! I've recently founded a company called EarthScape, which is focused on helping landowners transition to Native Plants, using...		Software Development, Climate Change, Data management and processing tools	7 months 3 weeks ago
How do you fund or finance your long-term data infrastructure?	That's a really honest answer Kim! Thank you for clarifyingYou're likely not the only one. In fact it would be interesting to find out how much conservation tech use and...		Funding and Finance, Data management and processing tools	7 months 4 weeks ago
efficient methods for labeling clusters of fish in images for segmentation purposes	Agreed. I have recently begun using SegmentAnything as a replacement for Detectron and have been very pleased. However, for a fish school I don't know how well it would do out of...		Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation	9 months ago

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Cheap Space, DIY Imaging and Big Data

WILDLABS Admin

21 December 2015 12:00am

John Amos, President of SkyTruth, explores how remote sensing is being used in conservation today and the importance of sky-truthing. He examines the role that citizen scientists can play in increasing transparency in...

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From Data Collection to Decisions

TimWilkinson

6 November 2015 12:00am

The speed at which data travels from the point of collection to a format which is understandable and useful for decision makers can be of critical importance. In this case study, Tim Wilkinson discusses a powerful suite...

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