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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Engineer, drone pilot, additive manufacturing hobbyist. Seeking the magic that happens at the intersection of conservation and tech.
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10 March 2021
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4 December 2020
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17 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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15 September 2020
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10 September 2020
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Hi everyone, The Int Biologging Society asked us to share this call, passing along in case anyone can participate: ... |
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Hi all, Starlink is Ku and Ka-band as they are targetting broadband, so you're looking at similar large(ish) transmit / receive dishes as traditonal VSAT, and they will POE... |
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I would like to introduce the Terrapin Tracker project: https://conservationx.com/project/key/terrapintracker This project was recently... |
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Hi Joaquin, If you email me, we can have a discussion of what exactly you need and how we can help. Dave |
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Hi Tim and also Thomas Thanks for your comments. It is fantastic that there have been so many replies to this thread in response to the request for thoughts,... |
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the drop off paper https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13231 |
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Hello Everyone, I hope that this is not a repost; however, I could not find anything from Alasdair. I apologize in advance if I... |
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Biologging | 4 years 3 months ago | |
Thanks for asking Harold, We work with any off the shelf VHF tag, you can use tags already in the field or you can order tags from any of the manufactureres, just have to... |
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Thanks Alasdair So there are low double figure thousands just with the various services of satellite collars. Then surely high tens of thousands, maybe low hundreds of... |
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Biologging | 4 years 5 months ago | |
HI there, Biotrack combined Avian GPS SOB tag & PicoPip AG317 Tag on the back of Hawfinch. H |
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Fantastic news, Alasdair. Indeed timely. I was wondering what the finiancial impliation for one unit will be? A price range will suffice. Thanks. C |
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Hi Natalie, Interesting request. I may be able to help and am working in this area in Australia to track both native and introduced species. Would you please enlighten me with... |
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