Keenan Johnson
- @keenanjohnson
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Anyone have any ideas for pieces of software that you wish existed but didn't? My team is looking to give back to the community a bit by spearheading development of a thing and collecting ideas of things that would be most helpful.
12 January 2026 6:53am
Yes please- automated analysis of video footage eg BRUVs to identify marine species. There are some paid options out there but they are largely too expensive for meaningful application at conservation sites.
Chris Nicholas
Society for Conservation GIS
23 January 2026 5:24am
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Chris Nicholas
Society for Conservation GIS
23 January 2026 5:25am
It would be cool to open-source/MIT license a simple utility written in QtXR, (especially for the SMART crowd, since their mobile app is written in Qt..), that could capture and encode video+audio+camera_metadata+6DOF+Video+GPS+SMPTE timecodes to a logfile of an emerging standard off an Android tablet .. for "I am looking at this thing (description of thing here...) " video to a "well-known" BLOB type in the SMART configurable data model...
and totally awesome to translate the standard file to KML tours , AR tours with Eclipsa streams, playback against NiaticLabs reconstructions, Google XR tours, etc ...
(extra points ... đ... for a pipeline that transcribes the audio trough speech->text, and the video through multi-modal scene processing for species and other metadata ("#cuteanteaters"), and exports it to a digital-rights framework so the authors can get Tik-Tok revenues ... )
... as a no-cost/thriving alternative to what WildLife Insights, GoPro, and others will inevitably do, that locks sites into their subscription models ....
Sophie Benbow
Fauna & Flora