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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With the rising threats to biodiversity such as wildlife crime, climate change and human-wildlife conflict today, wildlife monitoring technologies have become vital to study movement ecology, behaviour patterns, changes...
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A[n open source] system to remotely detach individual sensors from wildlife tracking collars
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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 5 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 8 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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Firetail - visualization of tracks and sensor data
9 April 2022 5:12pm
22 April 2022 7:21am
Hi Lars,
thanks a lot for the recommendation and this great use case!
Our team at Firetail is very enthusiastic about pushing the boundaries for the visualization and annotation of large datasets and it is great to see our work towards a Vectronic acceleration workflow was successul.
If there are researchers on wildlabs that are interested in the process, we should compile a short step-by-step tutorial. This would help to get started with Vectronic acc visuals/annotation.
In general: Firetail is not limited to specific tags vendors. We aim to support a complete set of GPS/Acceleration/Sensor data... if you experience problems with your data sets, don't hesitate to contact us!
Tobias
22 April 2022 7:47am
Hi Truphena,
Firetail is designed with animal telemetry in mind. But, you could import any kind of data that features latitute, longitude and some kind of ID (plus whatever sensors you have) like ship vessels, air traffic and so on. It is mostly a matter of getting the formats straight, but our support can help you with that.
Some adaptions may be required, but Firetail has grown with the community use cases from day one, we do not intend to change this any time soon.
What kind of data are you working on?
A good place to start may be the manual or, as Lars mentionend, our video tutorials (I linked the beginner's tutorial). You can also contact our support for specific questions.
Tobias
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Collection in Movement Ecology
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Dog GPS Loggers
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19 February 2022 11:20pm
@alsnothome the SnapperGPS looks sooooooo SWEET!. I am super-duper keen to try it out!
20 February 2022 6:59am
20 February 2022 10:50am
I'm co-developing SnapperGPS as part of my PhD. We're currently working on getting a release on GroupGets. Everything is moving a little slowly because of the chip shortage, though.
Happy to hear there's interest!
Paper suggestions for learning movement tracking technology development
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Tech Tutors: How do I get started with OpenCollar Edge Trackers?
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Technical Difficulties: The Death of Giants
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Opportunity: PhD or Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - Chinstrap penguin biologging
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Technical Difficulties: Can You Hear Me Now?
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The need for speed in Sea Turtle Telemetry
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Technical Difficulties: A Deployment Checklist
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Technical Difficulties: Tracking Thunderbird
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computer Vision Approach for Animal Tracking and Modeling
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How do I use satellite IoT to track wildlife & monitor remote equipment?
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TinyTx wildlife Audio Surveillance
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New Resource: Data Visualisation Tool for Animal Movement Data
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Proximity detection in koalas
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R package for triangulation?
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16 July 2021 3:31pm
This paper mentions some, and is just a great review on localization more broadly! I'd look into gibbonR and warbleR
Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6216).
This paper used Sound Finder -- Validation of an Acoustic Location System to Monitor Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Long Calls (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22398)
And this one used a MATLAB script -- Tracking cryptic animals using acoustic multilateration: A system for long-range wolf detection (https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5092973)
Creating a global database for drift data from pop-up satellite tags
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You could use Movebank for this, stream the data into a study, manage sharing settings to make some public and keep others private if needed. Lots of non-bird data in there!
Cheers
Roland
4 June 2021 6:40pm
You might also check out the Ocean Data Platform team at https://www.oceandata.earth/ They're trying to be a one-stop shop for ocean data and have recently ingested all the IOC data. EMODNet has an ingestion portal and data ambassadors who can negotiate data sharing agreements and anonymization/aggregation. Also @ThomasGray_Argos data sharing agreements and data governance is something I work on and would be interested in talking more about the privacy/user data issues you mention. I;ve been thinking about the need for a data intermediary that can hold data safely, scrub PII, and then share it with open platforms so each sensor owner or small entitty doesn't have to negotiate their own data sharing licenses.
4 June 2021 7:15pm
@skatewing Shoot me an email, and we can discuss ([email protected]).
Otter survival monitoring
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WWF: Carnivore Collaring in Zambia
28 April 2021 12:00am
Event: The 7th International Bio-Logging Symposium
12 April 2021 12:00am
Machine learning for animal tracking Kaggle competition?
17 February 2021 10:32am
28 February 2021 7:16am
Hi,
I have plenty of data which is not (yet) available to everyone. If still relevant, please contact me for more details.
26 March 2021 4:37pm
What kind of data are you looking for? Like just lat/long coordinates, GPS points, .shp files, etc.? I have a small amount of GPS data from focal follows of lemurs (+ behavioral context/individual ID/subgroup, etc.) over a 3 month period. It's not published as I'm only using it in conjunction with a vocal dataset I'm working with. But I imagine you're probably after much larger datasets?
9 April 2021 7:33pm
There are lots of data in Movebank that are not publically availalbe, all the grey dots in the search map. You can contact each data owner and arrange for access to the data.
GPS tag modification
23 February 2021 9:56am
28 February 2021 9:49am
Hi Carl,
Thanks, I think I see what you mean. I would probably do as you have done, glue the tag onto a fibreglass plate, and screw that plate onto a scale. For glue, silicone caulking or epoxy putty can be used, my preference would be caulking because it's easier to extricate the tag from it when the time comes.
As for the mounting plate, my preference is fibreglass of the sort used in electronics, as this can be glued to. For making the screw holes, if you have trouble with them splintering, I've heard that you can melt a clean hole using a heated iron nail, instead of drilling.
Thanks,
-harold
13 March 2021 6:42am
Hi Carl,
Is there any reason you cannot screw the GPS unit directly to a scale through the three existing holes? You could use a quick setting glue between the scale and GPS, not for strength but to ensure there is nothing that can get between the scale and GPS to bust it off. Maybe quick set epoxy but even just gap filler might do the job.
I just realised how old this thread is so maybe you have already solved the issue.
Matthew
20 March 2021 11:02am
Hi Matthew-- thanks. Very good suggestions. I am already going w the option of having the metal plate underneath. The tags cost a lot and I would rather go w the option that I am sure would ensure I can retrieve them.
Interview: Protecting Vultures with Telemetry
18 March 2021 12:00am
Heat shrinking "stuff" to collars
25 February 2021 10:07am
13 March 2021 7:16am
Hi Lars,
I'm currently heat shrinking transmitters to make a simple pouch to hold a transmitter to an ear tag. Because I want to prevent damage to the ear as much as possible, I figured it was desirable to have a material that would break before the ear does but I have not put this to the test. Two units deployed so far without an issue except for an intermittent fault with one of the transmitters. Hopefully not caused by the heatshrink. I think the biggest issue with heat-shrinking to a collar is that the heatshrink goes hard (at least the stuff I used) and will pull the collar toward the shape of the hard object you are attaching. A bit of preplanning and adding the desired shape before applying the heat should resolve that.
Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 Science Fund
10 March 2021 12:00am
Getting VHF transmitters in a quick turnaround time
26 February 2021 1:14pm
26 February 2021 2:45pm
Hi Kas,
Advanced Telemetry Systems has been able to get me transmitters in less than 4 weeks a few times. It does depend on how busy they are, though, so not guaranteed.
Good luck,
Kyler
1 March 2021 1:23pm
Hi Kyler,
That's great! Thank you for the lead - I'll get in touch with them asap.
Cheers, and all the best,
Kas
What to consider when planning our project for endangered, rarely seen species
5 February 2021 10:52am
26 February 2021 3:36pm
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rse2.191
This paper may be of interest!
And the latest Oryx edition is all camera-trap papers - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/4E2CEA9634F17EEBB58E5A871ABB21CA
12 April 2022 9:17am
Hello!
Yes, Firetail is primarilly meant for visualisation of tracking and sensor data (from accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers etc).
A good place to get an introduction to the possibilities is the company's youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3sXPVomr4mafv16SAOpiA/videos
Best regards,
Lars