Wildlife tracking technologies have already massively advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Recent advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting biologging data have unlocked the potential for fine-scale data collection at a near-global scale, which when integrated with remotely sensed environmental data offers an unprecedented biological lens into ecosystem health and environmental change (Jetz et al. 2022).
New technologies on the horizon include small satellites like CubeSats, which are being investigated by NASA, the ICARUS Initiative's satellite system, and a variety of other ventures aiming to improve the coverage, accuracy, and capacity of wildlife tracking data collection. Combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modeling, these advancements are empowering movement ecologists to ask previously unanswerable or unimaginable questions. It’s clear that this discipline sits at the precipice of major breakthroughs that could revolutionize our understanding of animal movement and the natural world.
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Hi @emmahiggins , sounds like a great plan. Could you tell more about the content of the program, and perhaps the institutional context (which department(s) is(are)... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community, AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Biologging, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Acoustics, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Dogs, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Early Career, Earth Observation 101 Community, East Africa Community, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps, Sustainable Fishing Challenges, Wildlife Crime, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 2 days 8 hours ago | |
I'm going to use a TTP223 module as a solution. This is a capacitive touch switch, used to turn things off and on. It's not just human touch that triggers it, anything... |
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Biologging | 5 days 9 hours ago | |
We'll be presenting Wednesday morning as part of session 10.1b on "Integrating earth observations and biological tools in ecology and evolution to cogenerate knowledge towards... |
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We are ready to make efforts on materials, but today there are few solutions available. Today, our partners' R&D efforts are focused on renewable energies and the energy... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation | 2 weeks ago | |
Hi Jesse,For a material to be acoustically transparent (in air), the speed of sound in the material times its density must match that of air. Realistically, any solid... |
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Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!! |
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I am working on that too haha. So in my design you load the glue gun with two part Loctite, it has two separate metal rings. Glue and hardener in each ring. Then each ring has a... |
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I'll find you some. Just organising all of our stock of these. |
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Hi everyone, @craig joined last month's Variety Hour to chat about Tagranger, which you can read more about here. A TagRanger®... |
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'Most importantly, we have to make it play a MIDI version of the DoctorWho theme song when you arm the device. That has to be the #1 feature if you ask me!' Seconded! |
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Might very well be so! I highly encourage you to take up the challenge! |
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You mention you're working with an engineer, here are a couple of pointers:with an SDR (the "digital USB receivers" you mention) you can scan some bandwidth to detect radio pulses... |
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Dog GPS Loggers
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I'm co-developing SnapperGPS as part of my PhD. We're currently working on getting a release on GroupGets. Everything is moving a little slowly because of the chip shortage, though.
Happy to hear there's interest!
Paper suggestions for learning movement tracking technology development
9 February 2022 7:16pm
Tech Tutors: How do I get started with OpenCollar Edge Trackers?
3 November 2021 11:35am
Technical Difficulties: The Death of Giants
3 November 2021 12:00am
Opportunity: PhD or Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - Chinstrap penguin biologging
1 November 2021 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: Can You Hear Me Now?
19 October 2021 12:00am
The need for speed in Sea Turtle Telemetry
15 October 2021 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: A Deployment Checklist
13 October 2021 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: Tracking Thunderbird
8 October 2021 12:00am
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computer Vision Approach for Animal Tracking and Modeling
20 September 2021 12:00am
How do I use satellite IoT to track wildlife & monitor remote equipment?
1 September 2021 12:00am
TinyTx wildlife Audio Surveillance
27 August 2021 7:16am
New Resource: Data Visualisation Tool for Animal Movement Data
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Proximity detection in koalas
12 August 2021 8:01am
R package for triangulation?
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This paper mentions some, and is just a great review on localization more broadly! I'd look into gibbonR and warbleR
Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6216).
This paper used Sound Finder -- Validation of an Acoustic Location System to Monitor Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Long Calls (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22398)
And this one used a MATLAB script -- Tracking cryptic animals using acoustic multilateration: A system for long-range wolf detection (https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5092973)
Creating a global database for drift data from pop-up satellite tags
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You could use Movebank for this, stream the data into a study, manage sharing settings to make some public and keep others private if needed. Lots of non-bird data in there!
Cheers
Roland
4 June 2021 6:40pm
You might also check out the Ocean Data Platform team at https://www.oceandata.earth/ They're trying to be a one-stop shop for ocean data and have recently ingested all the IOC data. EMODNet has an ingestion portal and data ambassadors who can negotiate data sharing agreements and anonymization/aggregation. Also @ThomasGray_Argos data sharing agreements and data governance is something I work on and would be interested in talking more about the privacy/user data issues you mention. I;ve been thinking about the need for a data intermediary that can hold data safely, scrub PII, and then share it with open platforms so each sensor owner or small entitty doesn't have to negotiate their own data sharing licenses.
4 June 2021 7:15pm
@skatewing Shoot me an email, and we can discuss ([email protected]).
Otter survival monitoring
2 June 2021 7:05pm
WWF: Carnivore Collaring in Zambia
28 April 2021 12:00am
Event: The 7th International Bio-Logging Symposium
12 April 2021 12:00am
Machine learning for animal tracking Kaggle competition?
17 February 2021 10:32am
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Hi,
I have plenty of data which is not (yet) available to everyone. If still relevant, please contact me for more details.
26 March 2021 4:37pm
What kind of data are you looking for? Like just lat/long coordinates, GPS points, .shp files, etc.? I have a small amount of GPS data from focal follows of lemurs (+ behavioral context/individual ID/subgroup, etc.) over a 3 month period. It's not published as I'm only using it in conjunction with a vocal dataset I'm working with. But I imagine you're probably after much larger datasets?
9 April 2021 7:33pm
There are lots of data in Movebank that are not publically availalbe, all the grey dots in the search map. You can contact each data owner and arrange for access to the data.
GPS tag modification
23 February 2021 9:56am
28 February 2021 9:49am
Hi Carl,
Thanks, I think I see what you mean. I would probably do as you have done, glue the tag onto a fibreglass plate, and screw that plate onto a scale. For glue, silicone caulking or epoxy putty can be used, my preference would be caulking because it's easier to extricate the tag from it when the time comes.
As for the mounting plate, my preference is fibreglass of the sort used in electronics, as this can be glued to. For making the screw holes, if you have trouble with them splintering, I've heard that you can melt a clean hole using a heated iron nail, instead of drilling.
Thanks,
-harold
13 March 2021 6:42am
Hi Carl,
Is there any reason you cannot screw the GPS unit directly to a scale through the three existing holes? You could use a quick setting glue between the scale and GPS, not for strength but to ensure there is nothing that can get between the scale and GPS to bust it off. Maybe quick set epoxy but even just gap filler might do the job.
I just realised how old this thread is so maybe you have already solved the issue.
Matthew
20 March 2021 11:02am
Hi Matthew-- thanks. Very good suggestions. I am already going w the option of having the metal plate underneath. The tags cost a lot and I would rather go w the option that I am sure would ensure I can retrieve them.
Interview: Protecting Vultures with Telemetry
18 March 2021 12:00am
Heat shrinking "stuff" to collars
25 February 2021 10:07am
13 March 2021 7:16am
Hi Lars,
I'm currently heat shrinking transmitters to make a simple pouch to hold a transmitter to an ear tag. Because I want to prevent damage to the ear as much as possible, I figured it was desirable to have a material that would break before the ear does but I have not put this to the test. Two units deployed so far without an issue except for an intermittent fault with one of the transmitters. Hopefully not caused by the heatshrink. I think the biggest issue with heat-shrinking to a collar is that the heatshrink goes hard (at least the stuff I used) and will pull the collar toward the shape of the hard object you are attaching. A bit of preplanning and adding the desired shape before applying the heat should resolve that.
Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 Science Fund
10 March 2021 12:00am
Getting VHF transmitters in a quick turnaround time
26 February 2021 1:14pm
26 February 2021 2:45pm
Hi Kas,
Advanced Telemetry Systems has been able to get me transmitters in less than 4 weeks a few times. It does depend on how busy they are, though, so not guaranteed.
Good luck,
Kyler
1 March 2021 1:23pm
Hi Kyler,
That's great! Thank you for the lead - I'll get in touch with them asap.
Cheers, and all the best,
Kas
What to consider when planning our project for endangered, rarely seen species
5 February 2021 10:52am
26 February 2021 3:36pm
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rse2.191
This paper may be of interest!
And the latest Oryx edition is all camera-trap papers - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/4E2CEA9634F17EEBB58E5A871ABB21CA
Gunshot detector on elephant tracking collars
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25 February 2021 10:02am
Interesting!
The µMoth initiative also seems very promising. They seem to be employed on dogs now as preparation for use on wild dogs in the Carnivore Bytes project.
19 February 2022 11:20pm
@alsnothome the SnapperGPS looks sooooooo SWEET!. I am super-duper keen to try it out!