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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New Conservation Tech Directory update
27 June 2022 at 04:45pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology (Recording)
22 June 2022 at 10:24pm
On the lookout for CAD/Microcontroller work!
17 June 2022 at 05:04pm
Virtual fencing / Kinetic energy harvesting / Holistic grazing
16 June 2022 at 07:12am
26 July 2022 at 11:13am
Hi,
One daily fix is planned for now. This will be challenging enough for KEH :)
Kr, D-
31 July 2022 at 05:15pm
I see, thanks!
One daily fix is quite limiting.
Do you have an idea how KEH might affect accelerometry?
Cheers,
Elephant Collar
11 June 2022 at 03:53pm
16 June 2022 at 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 at 03:26pm
its nylon rubber material
Ocean Tracking Network - Telemetry Data Study Hall
8 June 2022 at 06:48pm
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ungulate Ecology Lab
8 June 2022 at 01:32pm
Virtual Meetup Discussion: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology
7 June 2022 at 09:38pm
11 June 2022 at 04:42pm
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 at 01:08am
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 at 02:29am
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.

Heart rate detected with accelerometers
1 June 2022 at 11:41pm
2 June 2022 at 08:08am
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: Data Sharing and Archiving in Movement Ecology (Recording)

31 May 2022 at 11:03pm
New paper: A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking
29 May 2022 at 01:15pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology (Recording)

12 May 2022 at 10:03pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Sharing & Archiving in Movement Ecology
10 May 2022 at 11:26pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Collection in Movement Ecology (recording)

9 May 2022 at 03:51pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetups Season Four: Tracking Progress

29 April 2022 at 09:57am
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology

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17 July 2022 at 06:56am
Very cool indeed!
What is the intended fix rates on the raindeer? And will you be logging accelerometry as well?
With acceleromemtry, I am wondering: How will KEH affect the accelerometry itself?
In our muskoxen studies in Greenland we use the accelerometry to infer behaviour.