discussion / Community Base  / 24 May 2016

Meetup Topic Ideas - Do you have something to share?

Hi everyone, 

I'm keen to hear from members of the group for ideas or nominations about topics for future meetups. I think one of the strengths of the group is that it's a good place to get open feedback and brainstorm challenges to be overcome in a project. As such, I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who is the development or deployment stage of a conservation tech project, and who could use some real input from the group to further their work. 

Sound out ideas below - and feel free to self nominate or tag someone else! 

Cheers,

Stephanie




Hi Stephanie,

A postdoc friend at Newcastle University has been involved in developing and implementing Tumbling Dice's  Rana camera trap project for detecting pollinators. Not your average camera trap, Rana detects frames in which a substantial number of pixels in that frame differ from the previous frame and in which these motion-pixels are concentrated into a small area, “the blob”. They used this technology for monitoring pollinator visits to pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) in the Chilterns. They are off to Utah to start a new job in 2017 but they could be a great candidate?

It's also well worth checking out Tumbling Dice's other projects including Daisy for automated species recognition at http://www.tumblingdice.co.uk/.