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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Spaceborne Satellite-tag RF Systems to Measure Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildlife
12 July 2023
In this article from Alasdair Davies, he discusses how marine tracking's unique challenges could impact its potential for sustainability in the future.
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In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from Osa Conservation, you’ll learn about how technology is aiding their long-term efforts to prevent wildlife crime, protect critical species, and build a climate-adaptive...
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Come work with us! WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora are seeking an intern to help develop the movement ecology content on the Inventory - our wiki-inspired database of conservation technology. Accepting applications until...
6 June 2023
The Innovation in Practice edition of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is still seeking proposals about conservation technology
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The Zoological Society of London, with the support of WILDLABS and the UK Space Agency, are proud to publish this new guide to satellite technologies for tracking wildlife.
17 February 2023
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16 February 2023
As part of the AniMove eLearning programme, you are now able to stream 2022 Animal movement & remote sensing course lectures opensource.
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My original background is in ecology and conservation, and am now in the elected leadership of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware which convenes researchers developing open... |
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AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Emerging Tech, Sensors | 1 year 4 months ago | |
Hey, I know that guy : ) |
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Biologging | 1 year 4 months ago | |
The system is showcased here: |
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Biologging | 1 year 4 months ago | |
The solution with an ICARUS antenna on the ISS is on hold. It is planned that the GRACE-I will be the new satellite system to support the ICARUS: GRACE-I is planned to be... |
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Biologging | 1 year 5 months ago | |
Have a look at this for an example of unconventional tracker designs: |
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Biologging | 1 year 5 months ago | |
I have no experience with LoraWAN tracking myself but just wanted share a few relevant links for a LoraWAN wildlife use case and a few suppliers of LoraWAN trackers:An alternative... |
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Biologging | 1 year 5 months ago | |
No problem. I believe Jared was wanting to share more about our experience developing a collar on Wildlabs when there is time. I'm more on the mechanical end of things. Right now... |
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Biologging | 1 year 5 months ago | |
Hi Steph. Would be interested also. |
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Biologging, Community Base, Connectivity, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Remote Sensing & GIS | 1 year 5 months ago | |
Thanks Thomas!! We do use slow curing resins with no heat generation |
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Biologging, Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 1 year 7 months ago | |
Hi Everyone,We chose sigfox becuase it seems to have better range and is plug-play, whereas LoRa requires more custom programming and updating. Getting a gateway cost us $... |
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Biologging, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Connectivity, Emerging Tech, Sensors | 1 year 7 months ago | |
Oh, that looks so good, and some heavy hitting design firms too! |
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Biologging, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Open Source Solutions | 1 year 7 months ago | |
Hi David,I've used our monitoring platform, PRTG (www.paessler.com), with environmental sensors for a server room, which included temperature and humidity. The monitoring platform... |
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Biologging | 1 year 7 months ago |
Ocean Tracking Network Symposium 2022
5 August 2022 2:47pm
SnapperGPS device giveaway
5 August 2022 12:53pm
Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher
4 August 2022 9:08pm
Get to Know WILDBEAR Awardee Alyssa Bohart
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Firetail - Tutorial Series 22.3 - An introduction to Firetail - Update 2022
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Glad to announce I just replaced the Firetail introductory tutorial with a 2022 revision centered around Firetail 9:
- general concepts
- Movebank data handling
- Map Viewport
- Studies handling
- Annotation overview
- AI-based segmentation overview (FireSOM)
and quite a bit more to get you an idea what is possible with the new version.
Postdoc: Spatial Ecology & Conservation of Bustard spp.
22 July 2022 7:45pm
Postdoc: Biologging & Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals
22 July 2022 7:42pm
International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology & Human Mobility
22 July 2022 7:25pm
British Ecological Society Movement Ecology conference
22 July 2022 7:20pm
CERES TAG
22 July 2022 3:36am
Earth Species Project - Senior AI Research Scientist
15 July 2022 6:40pm
Conservation Data Coordinator
15 July 2022 11:02am
New Conservation Tech Directory update
27 June 2022 4:45pm
Elephant Collar
11 June 2022 3:53pm
16 June 2022 11:33pm
Great work @kangs and Technology For Wildlife Africa! Can I ask, what's the collar material made out of?
Cheers,
Rob
25 June 2022 3:26pm
its nylon rubber material
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology (Recording)
22 June 2022 10:24pm
On the lookout for CAD/Microcontroller work!
17 June 2022 5:04pm
Virtual Meetup Discussion: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology
7 June 2022 9:38pm
11 June 2022 4:42pm
We've actually been looking into NFC to automatically provision field devices to set/read/store metadata. We're staring down the barrel of a large deployment and metadata is one of the issues that we think really needs automation. We're thinking of having a dedicated device to write and read the tags that would go on the devices as stickers and automagically sync the metadata with the database. An added bonus would be that most recently modern phones support NFC protocols like NTAG or MiFare Classic. That would mean that they could also be both read and written with the GPS coordinates, timestamp, etc as they're deployed in the field. It's still under discussion with the many other things that need to be implemented, though. I do think it's interesting that what we're seeing in a lot of conservation technology applications is not just a need for new technology but also the less exciting but more practical need for things that improve productivity like automating metadata management.
12 June 2022 1:08am
Using NFC makes a lot of sense too. I'm just on an older lower-end device that doesn't support it, which is why it didn't pop immediately to mind. Would be interesting to see what the adoption rate for NFC-capable phones is across countries though I'd imagine some phone manufacturer or something already has that data.
12 June 2022 2:29am
A bit opposite of what you're looking for but according to this, the share of non-NFC enabled phones was 10% in 2020. They don't state their source unless you pay, but I suspect that's in terms of total phone models, not total phones in use. So it's highly likely that phones with no NFC in use is much higher than that.
Ocean Tracking Network - Telemetry Data Study Hall
8 June 2022 6:48pm
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ungulate Ecology Lab
8 June 2022 1:32pm
Heart rate detected with accelerometers
1 June 2022 11:41pm
2 June 2022 8:08am
Hi Max,
Well firstly, welcome! This is a great intro - I'm looking forward to having a poke around these links and reading more about your work. Sounds like you might well be interested in the topic of our meetup next week - we'll be talking about the future of biologging and biologging, the emerging tech and questions we should be paying attention to. I can't remember if I've seen your name pop up in our last few events, but hopefully will see you there! More below if you're interested!
Steph
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology | WILDLABS
Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 will explore the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. Join us Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM EDT to hear short talks from leading experts Christian Rutz, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, followed by open discussion and community exchange.
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Sharing and Archiving in Movement Ecology (Recording)
31 May 2022 11:03pm
Argos satellite tag open-source grant
14 August 2020 5:43pm
26 August 2020 4:07pm
The official announcement went out yesterday - https://mailchi.mp/1e130f609ed2/august2020?e=[UNIQID]
31 May 2022 3:56pm
We are still running this grant program albeit with subtle changes to improve the hardware/service agreement (in your favor).
If you want to build your own tag, have a passion for open-source, and at minimum have a North American ship-to address, reach out.
New paper: A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking
29 May 2022 1:15pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology
24 May 2022 10:10pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology (Recording)
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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Sharing & Archiving in Movement Ecology
10 May 2022 11:26pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Collection in Movement Ecology (recording)
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WILDLABS Virtual Meetups Season Four: Tracking Progress
29 April 2022 9:57am
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology
26 April 2022 12:00am
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