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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Machine Learning Researcher & Nature Photographer. Building conservation tech for biodiversity monitoring at Wildlife Insights.
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- @MattyD797
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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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- @srfreeze
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I am a wildlife expert with a decade of experience working with bats and proven success in efforts to study, manage, and conserve the species. I work at the nexus of advanced technologies and deep ecological understandings to provide effective solutions to government, academic, a
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- @mr.kite
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Environmental Specialist working with bird surveys and impact assessment. Here I'm focused on acoustic recording technologies and acoustic data analysis for birds.
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Both yes but mainly no, I liked the concept so much I "borrowed" it from "Endangered Safari" including the digitalized mammals.
Behind the scenes it is fairly simple: Just add relevant animals in a powerpoint, save as JPG, import it to
https://synoptic.design/
and name the area that looks like an animal after the animal- notice it must be the same name you have in the database and the same you will use in your reports,
Save it as a SVG- file and now you are ready to use it in tools like Power BI/ Tableau and custom lots of things like colour and it is interactive/ clickable.
Unfortunately the coverage maps in IUCN did not have good enough data quality for our national park,
So when you create a global database add a digital version of the specie and of course, always updated ranges.
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The GBIF backbone taxonomy is composed of Catalogue of Life, ITIS, the Red List and dozens of other checklists. It's just been updated again, but this blogpost from a 2019 update does a good job of explaining what it is: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-backbone-taxonomy/
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