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Vance Russell added a new Event - "Geospatial Group Café April 22" to Geospatial
Vance Russell added a new External Link - "Hansen Global Forest Change Dataset" to Geospatial
Vance Russell added a new Article - "Modern GIS: Moving from Desktop to Cloud" to Data management and processing tools
Vance Russell added a new Article - "Fires in the Serengeti: Burn Severity & Remote Sensing with Earth Engine" to Geospatial
Vance Russell added a new Product Review - "Global Forest Watch"
Vance Russell added a new Discussion - "Collaring elephants and post-release monitoring" to Geospatial
Vance Russell added a new Discussion - "Conservation Finance: Towards a New Model for Landscape Restoration. New Book" to Funding and Finance
Vance Russell added a new Discussion - "FOS Data Collection Tools" to Geospatial
Vance Russell added a new Product Review - "Earth Blox"
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- AgTech: Breaking out of silos
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- Brokering finance deals to fund nature restoration with Rob Gardner
This is the title of an episode of Ben Goldsmith's 'Rewilding the World' podcast series. I have been wondering for a while, how is it done? Here is a crystal clear outline.
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- Automated Image analysis
This project aimed to reduce human-carnivore conflict by building a resilient boma for a vulnerable family in Hunyari village. It served as a model for other families, promoting stronger livestock protection. The initiative included community engagement on predator deterrence and sustainable building practices. The success of the pilot is inspiring others to adopt similar solutions.
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- Overview of Image Analysis and Visualization from Camera traps
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Ground Truth: How Are You Verifying What Maps Show?
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- What Are Innovative Technologies, and Why Should Conservationists Care?
Conservationists use tools like drones, satellites, and camera traps to monitor ecosystems and scale their impact. But new challenges like transparency, funding gaps, and engagement remain. Web 3.0 technologies offer solutions, but adoption can be complex. Understanding their benefits and barriers is key.
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- DIY: Pressure Chamber
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- Can CBIs promote coexistence? A Case Study from Northern Tanzania
Can conservation-based incentives promote the willingness of local communities to coexist with wildlife? A case of Burunge Wildlife Management Area, Northern Tanzania
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- Can RGB drone data & Machine Learning be of value in Conservation?
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- What Are Innovative Technologies, and Why Should Conservationists Care?
Conservationists use tools like drones, satellites, and camera traps to monitor ecosystems and scale their impact. But new challenges like transparency, funding gaps, and engagement remain. Web 3.0 technologies offer solutions, but adoption can be complex. Understanding their benefits and barriers is key.
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- Planet Imagery is no longer available on GFW
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- Documentary on Conservation
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- HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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- Advice needed for accessible acoustic monitoring
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- HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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- Overview of Image Analysis and Visualization from Camera traps
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- From Field to Funder: How to communicate impact?
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- Brokering finance deals to fund nature restoration with Rob Gardner
This is the title of an episode of Ben Goldsmith's 'Rewilding the World' podcast series. I have been wondering for a while, how is it done? Here is a crystal clear outline.
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- Project Update — Nestling Growth App
We are thrilled to start a brand new group, the Latin America Community, and introduce the new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term: Vanesa Reyes and Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muy contentos de iniciar un nuevo grupo, la Comunidad Latinoamericana, y presentar a los nuevos Líderes de Grupo para el período 2024-2025: Vanesa Reyes y Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muito felizes em iniciar um novo grupo, a Comunidade Latino-Americana, e apresentar os novos Líderes de Grupo para o período 2024-2025: Vanesa Reyes e Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón.
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Fires in Serengeti and Masai Mara National Parks have burned massive areas this year. With Google Earth Engine, it's possible to quantify burn severity using the normalized burn ratio function, then calculate the total...
29 April 2025
Modern GIS is open technology, scalable, and interoperable. How do you implement it? [Header image: kepler.gl]
12 March 2025
The deadtrees.earth dataset that Elsa shared earlier this week is an excellent, albeit grimly named dataset! Here's another for global forest forest change derived from Landsat imagery. Click the link at the bottom to...
11 March 2025
Kasi, Thanks for sharing the excellent blog on elephant collaring. The map at the end was interesting. Did you do further spatiotemporal analysis to show trends and...
29 January 2025
Hi Folks,Here's a sneak preview of our book Conservation Finance: confinance.info. Feedback and sharing are welcome.Best,Vance
5 November 2024
Discussion
Field season is over for most. How well did yours go? How did your field collection software work? I tested and reviewed three free and open-source data collection apps in the...
9 October 2024
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Geospatial Wildlabbers,Opengeos, and QGIS are the gifts that keep on giving. It used to be that Arcgis Pro had the easiest basemaps to add to a project. I'm not so sure about that...
4 October 2024
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Want to install geospatial packages more quickly than conda? UV is a lightweight installation package that lets you rapidly install dozens of packages. Thank you to Quisheng Wu...
26 September 2024
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Monitoring may be the most written about but least implemented (properly) topic in conservation. It primarily comes down to three reasons: lack of 1) capacity; 2) funding; and 3)...
16 September 2024
We are thrilled to welcome our 3 new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term, Vance Russell, Ahmed Junaid, and Elsa Carla De Grandi!
22 August 2024
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Hi Folks,I would like to propose a name change of the Remote Sensing/GIS group to Geospatial. Here's the main reason, Remote Sensing and GIS are components of Geospatial. GIS is...
15 June 2024
Vance Russell commented on "Fires in the Serengeti: Burn Severity & Remote Sensing with Earth Engine"