Sensors already equip a range of tools to enhance monitoring capacity for conservation. Some of the higher bandwidth technologies, like camera traps and acoustic monitoring systems, have been essential elements of the conservation toolkit for decades, and thus have enough users that we've created dedicated WILDLABS groups to address them. But a whole range of lower bandwidth sensors beyond these core technologies are being increasingly integrated into conservation monitoring systems, and offer rich new insights into the wildlife and ecosystems we're all working to protect. As with many technologies, cost and access have historically been challenges to the adoption of new sensors, but with low-cost and open-source solutions on the rise, we're excited to see what the future of this space holds.
Getting Started with Sensors:
- Watch Shah Selbe's Tech Tutors episode on scaling FieldKit, an open-source conservation sensor toolbox, from a project to a successful conservation tech product.
- Check out our Virtual Meetup about Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions in conservation tech, including a talk by Alasdair Davies on the Arribada Initiative's work with thermal sensors in early warning systems.
- For a more in-depth introduction, watch the first video in our datalogger mini-series: Freaklabs: How do I get started with Arduino?
In this group, you'll meet others who are using and innovating diverse sensors in their work, discuss ways to make sensors more effective & accessible for conservationists, learn about what sensors are already helping us accomplish in the field, and have the opportunity to ask and answer questions. Join this group to get started!
Header image: Emma Vogel, University of Tromsø
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Ecologist / Business Management
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Leveraging big data to solve hard, open ended and socially impactful problems| Ex - Palantir
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Conservation Technologist, National Geographic Explorer, and Founder of Conservify and FieldKit
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I represent the French company BLUSPARK in Brasil, which aims at optimizing natural areas's managment through digital platform/app that connect communities and enhance collective awareness of the daily issues at stake in the areas.
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Hello, I am working as Enterprise Solution Architect with Department of Conservation, New Zealand Government. I am keen to learn the progresses and advancements made in the conservation space. This will provide us the starting point to collaborate and implement the technology.Tkx
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University of California
retired Field Station Director, very early adopter of conservation technologies
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Technical Director of sfbusa.org, building real-time, location reporting, fish bomb detection arrays. I do embedded product & firmware development.
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Fauna & Flora
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Security and Conservation Data Management Officer for a private conservancy.
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| Hi John and Adam, I've been hearing a lot about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and MinION over the last few months, and while it sounds fanastic, it's been... |
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| Sensory: BBC Wildlife Director John Downer & the technology of 'spy-cam' filmmaking from Getty Images on Vimeo.Small Cameras, Big... |
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| Hello all, I've been reading a lot about advancements in using thermal imaging technology for wildlife monitoring. I know... |
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| Latest news about this project was picked up by the BBC world service for a short interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03nwl8g You can also read more here: http://... |
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| Hi everyone, I'm working on a citizen science project forcused on using aquaculture for conservation and ecological... |
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| That's great Jason. I think your approach can be very successful. I'm a little bit familiar with Wild Book through my contacts at IBEIS, who I believe you... |
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| I was amused to read about a flock of pigeons just released in London to tackle pollution. The flock was equipped with pollution... |
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