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!
- @stefan_istrate
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Machine Learning Researcher & Nature Photographer. Building conservation tech for biodiversity monitoring at Wildlife Insights.
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Welfare and Wildlife Conservation Data Scientist
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Founder at Hex & Futures Wild, designing nature tech
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- @MattyD797
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PhD Student | Cornell University | Smithsonian Institution; My focus is in computational ecology within fishery acoustics
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Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Undertake and develop biodiversity monitoring
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- @mtucker
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Interested in large scale patterns in ecology, biogeography & evolution that can aid our understanding of species vulnerability to changing environments.
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University of St Andrews
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My research is focused on developing acoustic species classifiers for marine mammals worldwide.
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Coordinator for Rewilding, Nature Recovery and Biodiversity Management at AJA Climate Solutions, Ghana.
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- @bellariskytaa
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Hi, I am Bella R. Arinda, a GIS Specialist passionate about conservation and community empowerment. Graduating with a degree in Geodetic Engineering gave me a strong foundation in GIS and remote sensing. I made the leap from engineering to conservation, dedicating myself to using
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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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- @tobiaspetri
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Schäuffelhut Berger GmbH
data science & algorithmic developmentfor movement ecology
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21 September 2022
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26 August 2022
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Ceres Wild Rhino application
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An update on Ceres Tags products that are being used in conservation
22 August 2022
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Lead Software Engineer for ARISE
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Job opening at ARISE, an innovative program in the Netherlands to build a digital infrastructure for biodiversity data and services
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| Hi!I would take a look at Although developed for camera trap imagery, it is by no means restricted to such.Cheers,Lars |
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Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Emerging Tech, Geospatial, Software Development | 1 year 3 months ago | |
| Fire detection is a sort of broad idea. Usually people detect the products of fire, and most often this is smoke.Many home fire detectors in the US use a radioactive source... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Wildlife Crime | 1 year 4 months ago | |
| I'm also here for this. This is my first comment... I've been lurking for a while.I have 20 years of professional knowledge in design, with the bulk of that being software design... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software Development | 1 year 4 months ago | |
| Perfect. Looking forward to hearing from you! |
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Data management and processing tools | 1 year 4 months ago | |
| Hi folks! Happy 2024 and thanks in advance for your patience in case I over-used tags. If you’re using any form of natural language... |
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| Hi @GermanFore ,I work with the BearID Project on individual identification of brown bears from faces. More recently we worked on face detection across all bear species and ran... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software Development | 1 year 6 months ago | |
| Stefano Puliti joined Variety Hour to share his work using 3D photogrammetric data from UAVs for pre- and post-harvest inventory of forest... |
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| We use Kobo as well - it is amazing!!! |
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| 'Gundi, meaning “glue” in Swahili, is a technology platform that allows conservationists to seamlessly integrate any hardware with any... |
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| Hi Lev,We always need more hands in conservation, from whichever field! Engineering, computer science, AI/ML, ecology, environmental science, communications, statisticians, etc.... |
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| Also, for more help, here is the link to the website where an old report is shown. Navy Marine Species Monitoring :: Time-lapse Camera Surveys of Pinnipeds in Southeastern Virginia |
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ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
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Insight; a secure online platform designed for sharing experiences of conservation tool use.
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DeepFaune: a software for AI-based identification of mammals in camera-trap pictures and videos
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That's a very interesting question and use case (I'm not from deepfaune). I'm playing with this at the moment and intend to integrate it into my other security software that can capture and send video alerts. I should have this working within a few weeks I think.
The structure of that software is that it is two stage, the first stage identifies that there is an animal and it's bounding box and then there's a classification stage. I intend to merge the two stages so that it behaves like a yolo model so that the output is bounding boxes as well as what type of animal it is.
However, my security software can cascade models. So if you were able to train a single stage classifier that identifies your particular bears, then you could cascade all of these models in my software to generate an alert with a video saying which bear it was.
4 November 2023 4:51am
Hi @GermanFore ,
I work with the BearID Project on individual identification of brown bears from faces. More recently we worked on face detection across all bear species and ran some tests with identifying Andean bears. You can find details in the paper I linked below. We plan to do more work with Andean bears in 2024.
I would love to connect with you. I'll send you a message with my email address.
Regards,
Ed
Multispecies facial detection for individual identification of wildlife: a case study across ursids | Mammalian Biology
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5 Trailblazing Wildlife Monitoring Tech Solutions across East Africa. What Monitoring Technologies are you using?
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ZSL Research Fellow (x3 roles)
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20 October 2023 12:33pm
Marine Flyways - Seabird Tracking Database
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Marine Flyways - Seabird Tracking Database
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Biodiversity Intactness dataset now available on the Earth Engine community catalog
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How 3D Technologies are Reshaping Forest Ecology and Conservation
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GEO BON Monitoring Biodiversity for Action
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🚀 New Grant: 'Satellites for Biodiversity Award' Round 2
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GIS & Data Science Specialist
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Statistical Data Management and Analysis using R
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Mobile Data Collection using ODK Training
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Geospatial Data Scientist, Varaha
25 September 2023 9:58am
Software for recording field data?
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22 September 2023 11:08am
Have a look at kobocollect, very easy to use and reliable, can collect data and then send them to the cloud when you have internet.
Other solution:
QField - Efficient field work built for QGIS
SMART Conservation Software - Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (smartconservationtools.org)
EarthRanger: Protecting Wildlife With Real-Time Data
Natural Resource Data Solutions - Land & Resource Management
Efficient tools for effective resource management. Natural Resource Data Solutions provides data collection and resource management tools for land owners and environment conservation agencies, public and private.
22 September 2023 4:05pm
I second Kobo/CyberTracker for tracks, but if you have money for an ArcGIS Online license, Survey123 is great (offline use - but can't record tracks)
22 September 2023 6:11pm
We use Kobo as well - it is amazing!!!
Digital Disruption for Conservation Toolkit
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Digital Disruption for Conservation Toolkit
This Toolkit is designed to provide conservation practitioners with a basic introduction to blockchain concepts and their potential use for nature conservation.
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*NEW* White Paper: Harnessing the Power of Sound & AI to track Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Targets
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Gundi: The Universal Adaptor for Conservation Technologies
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Conservation Systems Developer
24 August 2023 11:13am
24 October 2023 8:46pm
Hello to all, new to this group. This is very exciting technology. can it work for ID of individual animals? we are interested in Ai for identifying individual jaguars (spots) and andean Bears (face characteristics). Any recommendation? contact? thanks!
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