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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
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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New remote sensing papers/datasets

Carly Batist

13 June 2022 1:53pm

Near real-time global 10 m land cover mapping via Dynamic World; combining Sentinel-1 & -2 data for tree species classification; detecting elephants from drone imagery; Ecuador's satellite monitoring for illegal...

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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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