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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Not been on Wildlabs for a long time but I recommend Eccel Technology in Leicester and even build them into bird rings. We have been using theirs. RSPB have built a data... |
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Biologging | 7 years 1 month ago | |
Euan, Thanks for the feedback and I'll be in touch with Blake sometime soon. I'm investigating options for tracking falcons and phascogales. Colin |
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Biologging | 7 years 1 month ago | |
The 6th International Bio-Logging Science Symposium will be held from September 25th to the 29th. It will focus on the science... |
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Biologging | 7 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, I would be looking at tagging a select number sturgeon fish in Georgia (Eurasia). Currently estimates have their popultion at around 10,000 and I am thinking of... |
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Biologging | 7 years 4 months ago | |
Hi! Here is a good resource for choosing between GPS and RF transmitters. http://www.lotek.com/vhf-or-gps-for-wildlife-... |
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Biologging | 7 years 4 months ago | |
Hi! Information I'm looking for also includes needed cost, design specifications, concerns with designs in use now, pictures of transmitters attached to pangolins, or... |
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Biologging | 7 years 4 months ago | |
Hi Michael I made some progress on a Java library and little GUI but I did not finish it. Although I managed the boring stuff, unpacking the DSG files and put some nifty... |
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Biologging | 7 years 6 months ago | |
Hi there Check out Microwave Telemetry at http://www.microwavetelemetry.com/bird/GSMspecifications.cfm Sirtrack may also be worth checking out (though I'm not sure what... |
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Biologging | 7 years 7 months ago | |
Hello again! An interesting paper exploring the new technologies being used to study cetaceans has a section devoted to what they term high-resolution... |
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Biologging | 7 years 9 months ago | |
Hi Steph, the survey is closed now, and I'm in the process of screening data. I hope to start with the analysis soon. So unfortunately, nothing new or exciting yet... |
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Biologging | 7 years 11 months ago | |
A new podcast from Scientific American with Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth, who originally trained as an... |
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Biologging | 7 years 11 months ago | |
John Vidal has published a neat article in The Guardian about how the animal internet and digital tracking of animals is offering new data... |
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