Group curators
Vance Russell
Ahmed Junaid
- @ahmedjunaid
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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
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
- 63 Resources
- 7 Discussions
- 26 Groups
Fauna & Flora
Remote Sensing Scientist, Conservation Technology & Nature Markets @ Fauna & Flora - WILDLABS Geospatial Group Co-Lead
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- @sandrzejaczek
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Movement ecologist working at Hopkins Marine Station. Specialise on large, predatory fishes (particularly sharks and rays).
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Murdoch university & BirdLife International
Research Scientist | Ph.D. | Conservation Science, GIS, Data management
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- @SandrineSerre
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PhD student on movement and behaviour of sharks
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Zoological Society London (ZSL)
Water-landing fixed-wing drones in marine ecology and maritime surveillance in MPAs and beyond.
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- 10 Groups
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Video producer, videographer and editor for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
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- @kvanmunster
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- @JWhitener
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With a background in cross cultural approaches to conservation, Jennifer currently leads a suite of capacity development programs aimed at creating innovative, inclusive and impact driven solutions to global conservation issues.
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- 5 Groups
Wildlife Biologist and Conservation Scientist
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- @alexandradigiacomo
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Stanford University & Duke University
PhD Student at Stanford University studying white shark movement ecology using biologging and remote sensing
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Game Rangers International
GIS Analyst
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University of Cambridge & British Antarctic Survey
Analysing seabird tracking data to inform marine conservation.
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- 5 Groups
Funding
Argos Satellite Tag Open-Source Grant
Thomas Gray
WILDLABS community member Thomas Gray from Argos has given us a preview of an upcoming grant program to develop open-source tags. Three years ago, Argos worked with the Arribada Initiative to develop an open-source...
17 August 2020
Article
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Vessels of the Future
Daniel Steadman
As we launch our new Sustainable Fishing Challenges group in the WILDLABS community, we are excited to welcome Daniel Steadman, the group manager, to give us an overview of three major areas in which #tech4wildlife...
4 August 2020
Article
Era of the Condor: A Species' Future in Recovery
Ellie Warren
In this three-part WILDLABS feature article, we'll take a look at the various technologies used to fight the greatest threat to endangered condors, explore the innovations that may change the way we study and understand...
5 May 2020
Article
Talking Tracking with Xerius
Ellie Warren
How does tracking technology meet the many challenges specific to monitoring birds within their home ranges and over long distances during migration? WILDLABS community member Virginie Perilhon from Xerius Tracking...
23 April 2020
Article
WILDLABS Tech Hub: WWF PandaSat
WILDLABS Team
At the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, we announced the WILDLABS Tech Hub, an accelerator programme created to support the development and scaling of groundbreaking technological solutions addressing the ...
13 April 2020
Community Announcement
WILDLABS Community Call Recording: Rainforest X-PRIZE
WILDLABS Admin
Our second WILDLABS Community Call took place on April 1st to continue the discussion started by Ben Tregenna in our Data Science group, in which he suggested the idea of submitting a collaborative entry to the X-Prize...
30 March 2020
Funding
Competition: Plastic Data Challenge
Ellie Warren
Are you ready for the Plastic Data Challenge? This global contest wants your innovative ideas for improving the plastic waste management and recycling chain in South and Southeast Asia. Participants can consider...
3 March 2020
Article
Instant Detect 2.0 emerges
Sam Seccombe
In the past six months Instant Detect 2.0 has physically emerged, with the first prototype systems built and ready for testing at the start of April. The ZSL team is now well into their optimisation and hardening phase...
3 September 2019
Funding
ESA Kickstarter: Environmental Crimes
European Space Agency (ESA)
The European Space Agency’s “Environmental Crimes” thematic call offers support and funding of up to €60,000 per activity to companies looking to develop services tackling illegal water, air and land polution using...
22 August 2019
Article
The WILDLABS TECH HUB is supporting technology solutions tackling the illegal wildlife trade, in collaboration with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Digital Catapult, Satellite Applications Catapult, Amazon Web...
4 June 2019
Article
Meet the WILDLABS TECH HUB Winners
WILDLABS Team
In February, we released an open call for the WILDLABS TECH HUB, offering 3 months of support for solutions using technolgy to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. We were overwhelmed by an incredible 37 submissions,...
13 May 2019
Article
#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Our Favourites from 2019
WILDLABS Team
Happy World Wildlife Day! To celebrate, this week we've asked our community to share photos showing how they are using tech in the field or the lab, using the #Tech4Wildlife hashtag.
3 March 2019
June 2025
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Joel Masselink
October 2025
event
Lacey Hughey and 3 more
November 2025
December 2020
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| Hi all, Just a week until the Esri webinar on GIS and Conservation. Some interesting talks happening. Sign up here.... |
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Geospatial | 5 years 2 months ago | |
| Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of advice on GIS, QGIS and Mapbox and thought it time to make use of the WildLabs community's well of... |
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Geospatial | 5 years 8 months ago | |
| CBI and SCGIS have been running a second series of webinars this year. You can find recordings of all the previous webinars signposted here. Of note, see: Planetary-scale... |
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Geospatial | 5 years 11 months ago | |
| The annual Google Geo for Good Summit is open for applications. Attendance is free of charge; however participants will be... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 1 month ago | |
| Hi GIS-ers, This is a notification that the FOSS4G 2019 conference call for talks and workshops deadline is this coming Monday 15th... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 1 month ago | |
| Following the successful Eye on Earth Symposium at the end of October, the team has announced that video recordings of all 35 sessions are now available. They've... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 3 months ago | |
| Just to throw a couple options out there: Indonesia's one map portal The hanson map, which you can download from: Global forest watch Google Earth Engine Global... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 4 months ago | |
| Today is GIS Day. Today we turned our department foyer into a map gallery to celebrate. The conservation work of the RSPB is reliant on... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 6 months ago | |
| Hi Thom, Thanks a lot for the response! The abstracts were very interesting and I hope we can share more of the work from you and your colleagues. Please feel free to... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 8 months ago | |
| NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program is hosting a free advanced webinar series in Change Detection for Land... |
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| Check out the Compendium of guidance on key global databases related to biodiversityrelated conventions from UNEP-WCMC (2018... |
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Geospatial | 6 years 8 months ago | |
| Hi Steve, I have used GIS Pro by Garafa on an iPad. I found it was one of the only apps that allowed importing of custom raster images. This feature has allowed me to... |
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