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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| The European Space Agency have an exciting funding opportunity coming up and got in touch with us to ask that we share it with you,... |
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| Hi Steph Sure - we'll have the projects confirmed by 30 June and I can highlight ones that might be of interest! Jenny |
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| For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://... |
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| Hi Thomas We are mapping a very small area in real time. The data rate is controlled by the time it take to read all the DS18B20s. The logger I use in the Octogons is using... |
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| For good measure, here's some cave survey porn of Hang Son Doong cave in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOH4gbW18Ts |
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| I am not suggesting that GoPro cameras do not have applications in conservation, but if you follow the link you posted you will find questions being asked that a conservation... |
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| Thanks for sharing this event, Jenny! Looks really interesting, hope to see you there. |
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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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