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Geospatial data and analysis is critical for conservation, from planning to implementation and measuring success. The Geospatial group focuses on all aspects of this field, from field surveys to remote sensing and data development/analysis to GIS systems.

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Vance Russell
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Over 35 years of experience in biodiversity conservation worldwide, largely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology. I run my own business assisting nonprofits and agencies in the conservation community
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Mongabay's Environmental Data Journalism Webinar

WILDLABS Team

1 June 2022 3:26pm

Mongabay is hosting a webinar to demonstrate the tools we use to identify and communicate the urgent changes occurring in tropical forests across the globe. During this latest installment of our free webinar series,...

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santissar

3 June 2022 11:08am

If I didn't get a chance to get in, can I have an offline recording?
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Climate scientist: Storms

WILDLABS Team

10 May 2022 10:00am

Climate X are seeking an enthusiastic and capable climate scientist to quantify climate change-related risks and physical impacts of tropical and temperate storms. 

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More info on the NICFI/Planet free data announcement

Hattie Branson

14 October 2020 5:35pm

Good evening everyone!! TL;DR: Great news, free ~5 m satellite imagery for the tropics. Comes analysis-ready in RGB, download coming mid-October via Planet Explorer. There...

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Thomas Starnes

21 October 2020 9:39am

Hi Hattie,

This is great - thanks for providing so much detail! Nice summary of other resources, too. It would be great to hear on this thread how people are using or planning to use this.

Thom

Aurélie Shapiro

23 October 2020 11:51am

you can also access the data via FAO's Sepal (https://sepal.io/), and when you have a planet key (register here: https://www.planet.com/nicfi/) you can use APIs and WMTS to load directly into QGIS, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online or Python.

 

Luisa Teixeira

22 April 2022 10:47pm

This earth day 2022 celebration blog recaps some of the available resources from organizations that are partnering with the NICFI Satellite Data Program. The platforms, tools and scripts created and made available by Global Forest Watch, Google Earth Engine, and Mapbox, among others, are freely available to anyone that wishes to use tham.

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Remote trap sensing communications

mabuterworth

7 November 2020 1:43pm

Hi Wildlabs,   My name is Mark Butterworth, and I’m a PhD student at Cardiff University.  I am researching methods for remotely monitoring animal traps that...

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Ryan Ruttan

18 December 2020 6:22pm

Hi,

Let me know if you want any help with solar application for this. I use small remote cameras in the field with 18650 batteries from used laptops and solar cells. The solar panels are pretty cheap, about $15 ordered from amazon. And the charge controllers are about $3 each. The solar setups work well on a mesh setup that I have here but I think as suggested that lora might be the best way to go.

Harold Tay

17 January 2021 3:14pm

Hi Mark,

This is very interesting.  HF transmitters can be very simple and low power, but I would be concerned about their long fragile antennas.  I'd contact a local ham club with old people who still do CW over QRP.

You could also look into sigfox.  It may be possible to convince the nature reserve or park to install a sigfox network specifically for their own use.  But I don't know how much it would cost.

Thanks,

-harold

Sam Sulaimanov

19 April 2022 5:59pm

Can also recommend looking into Argos: https://www.cls-telemetry.com/argos-solutions/argos-services/

The transmitter can send a few messages per day and the messages are received by Argos satellites. To prolong your battery life, I'd recommend looking into adding a solar panel to your system.

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Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure

Katherine "KZ" Zacarian

24 September 2021 6:34pm

I am writing to ask the community for their thoughts on the microflier developed by researchers at Northwestern, as discussed in this publication featured as the ...

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Akiba

25 September 2021 2:56am

I think it looks like a really interesting technology, but it's still in the realm of research and academia. They're correct in that it demonstrates device miniaturization and they look like they're pushing the boundaries of printed circuit board sizes. Also the point of these devices seems to be to demonstrate that it's possible to make electronics capable of unpowered flight. 

On the practical side, I'd say the devices are more of a proof of concept. The electronics in a system can usually be made very light, but all your weight and size will come in the batteries and then the enclosure.  You can achieve something very similar by using a technology called flex/rigid PCBs which are already commercially available and can be custom ordered online. These are commercially fabricated circuit boards, typically used in mobile phones, that have a rigid part where the ICs would be mounted and a flexible part for interconnect, wiring, or mounting discrete components like resistors and capacitors. You'd be able to make these very light since they use a very thin polyimide (high temperature plastic) substrate and you can fabricate in the same winged form factor as what the researchers used. It'd be interesting to see if they make the mechanical files available to others. 

Akiba

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Allen Coral Atlas Completes First Global Coral Reef Maps

Allen Coral Atlas

22 September 2021 12:00am

The Allen Coral Atlas have completed the first global coral reef maps.  Visit the Allen Coral Atlas website for more information. Header image: Coral Reef Image of the Ailinginae Atoll, Marshall Islands, Credit: Greg...

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Geo for Good Lightning Talks: Nature Conservation

Google Earth Outreach

17 August 2021 12:00am

Join the Google Earth Outreach team on August 19th for the 5th episode of Geo for Good Lightning Talks. You’ll hear from NGOs, scientists, and practitioners on how they use Google mapping tools to address issues in...

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WILDLABS Tech Tutors: Season 3

WILDLABS Team

6 July 2021 12:00am

The WILDLABS Tech Tutors are back for all new season of in-depth walkthroughs, deep discussions on effective, impactful, and inclusive conservation technology project strategies, and - of course- even more answers to...

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Competition: Hack the Planet 2021

The Commonwealth

23 April 2021 12:00am

The 2021 Hack the Planet Competition is now accepting entries! This competition is looking for ideas on how to solve the challenges of our ocean with concepts that include the power of imagery, connectivity or other...

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