Group curators
Vance Russell
3point.xyz
Ahmed Junaid
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Elsa Carla De Grandi
Fauna & Flora
Who We Are
Geospatial data and analysis is critical for conservation, from planning to implementation and measuring success. Every day, mapping and spatial analysis are aiding conservation decisions, protected areas designation, habitat management on reserves and monitoring of wildlife populations, to name but a few examples. The Geospatial group focuses on all aspects of this field, from field surveys to remote sensing and data development/analysis to GIS systems.
How to Get Started
Want to learn more about how remote sensing is used in conservation? Check out the first two episodes of this season of Tech Tutors, where our Tutors answer the questions How do I use open source remote sensing data to monitor fishing? and How do I access and visualise open source remote sensing data in Google Earth Engine? You can also check out our Virtual Meetup Archive for a range of panels that overlap with Geospatial topics, or take a look at our Earth Observation 101 lecture series from Dr. Cristian Rossi.
Our Purpose
The WILDLABS Geospatial Group is for conservation practitioners, geospatial analysts, and academics that want to:
- Share geospatial resources, best practices, data, and ideas;
- Network amongst geospatial and data practitioners;
- Create peer learning opportunities;
- Promote the use of free and open-source geospatial software; and
- Improve the use of GIS software and geospatial analyses in conservation management and research.
Group curators
3point.xyz
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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- @ahmedjunaid
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Zoologist, Ecologist, Herpetologist, Conservation Biologist
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Fauna & Flora
Remote Sensing Scientist, Conservation Technology & Nature Markets @ Fauna & Flora - WILDLABS Geospatial Group Co-Lead
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Many thanks to WILDLABS. This community aligns precisely with my professional interest in applying IT expertise to nature conservation.
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- @Durgananda
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Earth Logic LLC
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Chartered Geographer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 35 years in GIS, currently Nature Products Lead at CreditNature. Main interests: biogeography, biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, ecosystem services, rewilding, nature tech, nature fintech.
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- @hjayanto
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KONKLUSI (Kolaborasi Inklusi Konservasi - Yayasan)
Your friendly Indo-Crocky-Croc
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- @MStarking
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Ecologist and conservation researcher, currently an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan-Flint, research areas include landscape ecology, forestry and wildlife interactions, wildlife habitat relationships, spatial ecology, GIS.
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
I am a devoted conservationist, natural resource management enthusiast interested in Elephant and Pangolin species and passionate about linking communities with environmental conservation
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Technologist and Visual storyteller focusing on social, conservations issues.
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- @KateNewtonCorrell
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Hello! I'm the product marketer for Lens by Upstream Tech. Lens is a remote land monitoring platform that helps conservation organizations harness the power of public and commercial geospatial data, regardless of technical experience.
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- @Valentin_Stefan
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Interested in emerging technologies related to camera traps for pollinators
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Link
Google Earth Engine Tutorial-100: Heatwave Mapping
Ahmed Junaid
Google Earth Engine with Amirhossein Ahrari
15 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14482
15 January 2025
Funding
Fellowship Opportunity: Planet Labs and Taylor Geospatial Institute 🚀
Elsa Carla De Grandi
Eligibility: graduate and postdoctoral researchers affiliated with a Taylor Geospatial Institute consortium institution
11 January 2025
Careers
Postdoc on camera trapping, remote sensing, and AI for wildlife studies
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
The Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies (WFE), SLU, Umeå, is looking for a postdoc with strong interests in wildlife conservation technology. She/he will work within Big Picture, a European project...
18 December 2024
Link
FEISTY (R package).
12 December 2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143253
12 December 2024
Link
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14194978
12 December 2024
Link
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15205039
9 December 2024
Funding
European Coordination Action on Ocean Health and Biodiversity
Elsa Carla De Grandi
Invitation to Tender
7 December 2024
Link
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030844
4 December 2024
Excellent use of Python.
4 December 2024
R Package - TreeCompR
1 December 2024
September 2025
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Ideal Workplace Solutions
October 2025
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Lacey Hughey and 3 more
November 2025
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Brigitta Keeves
March 2026
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Wildlife Drones
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| A nice work from @dmorris! See his LK post. "Lots of information in the conservation literature is represented in maps (e.g., the... |
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AI for Conservation, Geospatial | 4 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Yep see you on friday |
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Geospatial, Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Community Base, Data Management & Mobilisation, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools | 5 months ago | |
| Yep we are working on it 1/ segment 2/remote unwanted ecosytem3/get local potential habitat4/generate5/add to picture |
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Geospatial, AI for Conservation, Data Management & Mobilisation, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 5 months ago | |
| All sound, would be nice if there were only 5, though! |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Data Management & Mobilisation, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 5 months ago | |
| Good morning JocelynThank you very much for your comment, this is proving to be very useful advice and thank you so much for setting me on the right path!! This is very exciting!!... |
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Animal Movement, Citizen Science, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Marine Conservation, Drones, Community Base, Geospatial | 5 months ago | |
| Means so much. Thank you, @CathyNj. |
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Geospatial | 5 months ago | |
| Hello! I'm wondering whether there's anyone on here who would be able to offer me some guidance on storing spatial data in Microsoft Azure... |
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Geospatial | 7 months 2 weeks ago | |
| Thank you! I will follow up by email. |
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Animal Movement, Conservation Dogs, East Africa Community, Geospatial, Sensors, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 5 months 2 weeks ago | |
| Thanks @VAR1 great insights! Funny you mentioned the honey thing, @hikinghack said the same in response on the GOSH forum. I think the point I'm trying to make with the vegan... |
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Open Source Solutions, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Geospatial, Software Development | 5 months 3 weeks ago | |
| How much does it cost to incorporate machine learning into your conservation drone geospatial analysis? How does it speed up your workflow... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Drones, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Sensors, Software Development | 6 months ago | |
| Hi Dan, Not right now but I can envision many uses. A key problem in RS is data streams for validation and training of ML models, its really not yet a solved problem. Any... |
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Emerging Tech, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data Management & Mobilisation, Geospatial, Sensors | 6 months 1 week ago | |
| And if you are new to GFW...this new glossary that was added recently is very helpful to understand some key terms.Check it out here! |
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Geospatial | 6 months 1 week ago |
Applied hierarchical modelling (AHM) for species distribution and abundance
9 April 2024 7:22pm
Post Doctoral Research Assistant at ZSL
9 April 2024 7:03pm
ibm-nasa-geospatial (IBM NASA Geospatial)
28 March 2024 9:22am
ibm-nasa-geospatial (IBM-NASA Prithvi Models Family)
Foundation models and downstream applications for Earth Observation and Weather and Climate.
Catch up with The Variety Hour: March 2024
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Leveraging Actuarial Skills for Conservation Impact
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19 March 2024 6:35pm
Thank you for your response Akiba. I will have a look. 👏🏻
19 March 2024 7:52pm
I would look into the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-Related Disclosures), Finance for Biodiversity, Accounting for Nature, etc. which are all focusing on how to incorporate nature risk into corporate reporting and sustainability frameworks!
20 March 2024 3:48pm
Thank you Carly, I will definitely take a look.
Consultants - Mapping EU’s Marine Protected Areas and analyzing their ecological coherence
19 March 2024 9:39am
2 Postdoctoral Conservation Ecologist Positions at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (SNZCBI)
14 March 2024 7:18pm
International Day of Forests: "New Technological Innovations are Needed to Halt Deforestation and Forest Degradation" Panel
14 March 2024 12:16pm
PhD Opening: Revealing the Dynamics of Soaring Environments Through GPS and Drones
13 March 2024 2:11pm
Ph.D. Assistantship: Collared Peccary Population and Spatial Ecology in Southern Texas
13 March 2024 1:51pm
Navigating corporate due diligence in the Voluntary Carbon Market
8 March 2024 4:36pm
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Machine Learning Postdoc Position, Understory
29 February 2024 11:56pm
Data data everywhere, but not a byte to use!
29 February 2024 7:13am
Engineer in novel technologies and approaches for biodiversity monitoring
26 February 2024 6:12pm
Scaling biodiversity scoring for supply chains aligned with TNFD
20 February 2024 9:44am
Wildlife Drones will be hosting in-person demos in the U.S.
12 February 2024 3:32am
Post-doc possition - Field spanning movement ecology, ecology of fear, bio-logging science, behavioral ecology, and ecological statistics
10 February 2024 7:20am
Bio-Logging Science Symposium
9 February 2024 3:59pm
Conservation Technology Intern - The Wildlife Restoration Foundation
8 February 2024 7:52pm
Power managment/Recharging System and Communication System
2 January 2024 4:06pm
26 January 2024 8:49am
"Seychelles and South Africa did not allow Starlink to operate"
This is not good, has implications for anti-poaching measures.
26 January 2024 9:03am
Power usage for microcontrollers with solar is much more manageable. For Raspberry Pi's and higher it gets expensive and big.
I'm quite impressed by the specs from the Goal Zero Yeti devices. This can have high capacity and be charged with Solar. Not small though. And the price is not in proportion to the Pi's.
So this 200x model for example, would be close to 16 days running the audio recorder. Let's say 10. without solar. Add solar? Depends on the size of the panels I guess. Power usage for mobile networking? Depends on how much you transmit.
Probably some well documented experiments would be really nice for people here. Sounds like something nice for the next set of grants :)
26 January 2024 2:11pm
Real nice video. I'll have another look in the weekend in detail.
Need advice - image management and tagging
12 January 2024 7:55pm
15 January 2024 8:47pm
Interesting, Iʻll give it a shot. Looks like this could save me some time.
Thanks for the explanation @wade!
24 January 2024 5:16pm
I have no familiarity with Lightroom, but the problem you describe seems like a pretty typical data storage and look up issue. This is the kind of problem that many software engineers deal with on a daily bases. In almost every circumstance this class of problem is solved using a database.
In fact, a potentially useful analysis is that the Lightroom database is not providing the feature set you need.
It seems likely that you are not looking for a software development project, and setting up you own DB would certainly require some effort, but if this is a serious issue for your work, you hope to scale your work up, or bring many other participants into your project, it might make sense to have an information system that better fits your needs.
There are many different databases out there optimized for different sorts of things. For this I might suggest taking a look at MongoDB with GridFS for a couple of reasons.
- It looks like you meta data is in JSON format. Many DBs are JSON compatible, but Mongo is JSON native. It is especially good at storing and retrieving JSON data. Its JSON search capabilities are excellent and easy to use. It looks like you could export your data directly from Lightroom into Mongo, so it might be pretty easy actually.
- Mongo with the GridFS package is an excellent repository for arbitrarily large image files.
- It is straightforward to make a Mongo database accessible via a website.
- They are open source (in a manner of speaking) and you can run it for free.
Disclaimer: I used to work for MongoDB. I don't anymore and I have no vested interest at all, but they make a great product that would really crush this whole class of problem.
25 January 2024 8:32am
Hi!
I would take a look at
Although developed for camera trap imagery, it is by no means restricted to such.
Cheers,
Lars
Ignite Labs: Space for Nature & Biodiversity Series
21 January 2024 2:46pm
Free Spatial Analysis Course: Going Places with Spatial Analysis
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Free Live Training Seminar: Bring Your Imagery to Life with ArcGIS Reality
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Information to the young who are the future
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Great work @CathyNj kindly check out the below opportunity. I reckon you may find it useful for your work.
"Join Planet Ed and The Nature Conservancy for the Planet Media Call for Pitches to Shape the Future of Climate Education for Kids!"
13 January 2024 4:08pm
Thank you for this! Will take a look.
Assessing the biodiversity impact of palm oil facilities around the world
4 January 2024 12:07pm
What is your favorite package or software for visualizing animal tracking data?
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30 December 2023 2:32pm
It was indeed recorded and can be viewed here:
Data Viz Inspo for the Holidays: December 20, 2023 (youtube.com)
Cheers,
Lars
31 December 2023 8:03pm
Appreciate that Lars!
Seeking Host Organisations for Travel Scholarship Application
19 December 2023 12:54am
20 December 2023 3:07am
Hi Eva,
Me and my colleagues run a small NGO based on Yogyakarta in Indonesia, although our projects are spread around the country. One of our active project is working with the movement ecology of Sunda gharials in Berbak-Sembilang National Park. One of the other is for Malayan Giant Turtle conservation using one-plan approach, which we are planning to start in situ phase. We can't give you promise about anything, but are able to be the host organization and would love to talk the opportunity!
Cheers,
Dhanu
21 March 2024 9:48pm