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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We're incredibly excited to kickstart the OpenCollar initiative. If you haven't seen it yet, check out opencollar.io ... |
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Biologging | 5 years 2 months ago | |
Thanks all, very useful links, some of them, like the orangutan nest mapping, wildfind, & sensorgnomes, I knew about, some not. Will have a poke :) |
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Biologging | 5 years 3 months ago | |
Hi everyone, If you're interested in examining the movement ecology of individuals in fragmented landscapes our new paper 'The... |
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Biologging | 5 years 4 months ago | |
Hello Mike I am not sure whether a datalogger would resolve radio noise problems. I would expect more success from improving the antenna/receiver circuitry to get rid of the... |
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Biologging | 5 years 6 months ago | |
Hi everyone, Folks might be interested in a webinar I’ll be hosting with colleagues at HeroX and NASA on our crowdsourcing... |
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Biologging | 5 years 6 months ago | |
Just to close this issue - I developed some iButtons and radio trackers which could be encased in medical safe epoxy and inserted into fruits for consumption by elephants.... |
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Biologging | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Microwave PTT's offer 5 free tags annually to early career reserachers. To find out more read the attached document and apply by 31st... |
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Biologging | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Thanks Steph, No write-up. This little experiment was squeezed into some actual work. Very happy to describe components if someone is interested. The balloon hobby... |
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Biologging | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Telemetry spanish paid online course from Spain https://ingeoexpert.com/cursos/curso-de-seguimiento-de-fauna-mediante-telemetria/?v=... |
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Biologging | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Results: When we picked them up after a month and a half in the field, the base-stations had worked perfectly for the whole time. The battery levels stayed fairly consistent at... |
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Biologging | 5 years 8 months ago | |
Recommendations: Mataki-LITE tags have a steep learning curve but they very adaptabile and cheap (for remote-download tags) so I hope these lessons-learned will prove... |
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Hi everyone, We're developing an areal platform autonomous in energy. It a balloon inflated with helium and covered with solar... |
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Innovator Interview: Hack the Poacher
4 June 2020 12:00am
The Perfect Paw Print: Collecting Data with FIT
3 June 2020 12:00am
Webinar: The Next Generation Of Animal Telemetry
1 June 2020 12:00am
WILDLABS Tech Tutors: Season One
19 May 2020 12:00am
Webinar: Non-invasive Conservation Genetics
13 May 2020 12:00am
Get To Know FIT
6 May 2020 12:00am
Era of the Condor: A Species' Future in Recovery
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Talking Tracking with Xerius
23 April 2020 12:00am
WILDLABS Tech Hub: WWF PandaSat
13 April 2020 12:00am
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30 March 2020 12:00am
Online Workshop: Conservation Technology
23 March 2020 12:00am
Enter the Zooniverse: Try Citizen Science for Yourself!
18 March 2020 12:00am
OpenCollar Update 1
6 March 2019 12:05pm
19 April 2019 7:55am
also, we noticed our BoM was missing from GitHub, so we've added it now: https://github.com/Wild-Spy/OpenDrop/blob/master/Documentation/OpenDrop_BOM.xls
5 March 2020 4:44am
the drop off paper
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13231
Accepting Applications: ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management
4 March 2020 12:00am
#Tech4Wildlife 2020 Photo Challenge In Review
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Call for Nominations: Tusk Conservation Awards
3 March 2020 12:00am
Open-Source Argos Developer's Kit / Tag
2 March 2020 10:27pm
How to add a salt water switch
28 February 2020 4:52pm
Hawai'i Conservation Conference
28 February 2020 12:00am
Animove Summer School 2020
13 February 2020 12:00am
Curious about radio-tracking with drones?
29 January 2020 3:44am
31 January 2020 8:26am
Hello Laura,
Thanks for the detailed response. It sounds like a very interesting use of drone technology.
Many thanks,
Mark
12 February 2020 1:50pm
Hi,
Does your system work with normal VHF tags or do you make a custom tag for use in your system?
Does the drone have to be piloted manually in a particular path or pattern in order to acquire the tags?
Or can your receiver be placed on say a fixed-wing high speed drone programmed to fly a lawn mower pattern to cover the maximum amount of area?
I'm also curious how you are doing the direction finding, since there are no visible antennas, but I understand if you'd rather not talk about this (c:
Interesting work, thanks.
-harold
12 February 2020 9:33pm
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 be VHF of in the case of satelite or GPS tags have a VHF componment.
The drone is piloted manually, you can see the tag locations on the base station in real time you can reposition the drone to avoid terrain challanges to get the best results.
We cover a lot of ground, I can do the math, flight patterns really come down to the application you are looking at animal being tracked ect, happy to discuss specifics further at you convenience.
We have videos of our work on out youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1pcEJHkEPCy94AlT0U7HQ
The oringinal research papers are on researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debbie_Saunders
You can book a virtual demo with me, I'd love to hear about your work and ideas. It would be great to give you a run through of the solution, flight patterns and user interface.
https://www.wildlifedrones.net/book-demo/
Robert
Wildlifedrones
+61 491 625 411
Number of radio collared animals?
9 December 2019 7:27pm
4 January 2020 10:58pm
There are over 7000 tracked animals via Argos alone (monthly). More info here - http://www.argos-system.org/applications-argos/wildlife-monitoring/
5 January 2020 10:49am
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 thousands with terrestrial GPS and conventional VHF.
Radio telemetry
4 June 2019 4:39pm
5 June 2019 11:33am
Hi Helen,
Two suggestions coming through over twitter:
A good start is to reduce your reciever's gain as far as possible.
Hopefully you can snuff out the antenna's rear lobe that way. Headphones really help there too. https://t.co/9Eg4gpHVly
— Faunatech Austbat (@FtechAustbat) June 5, 2019
sometimes it helps to put your body behind the antenna at about waist height. Does that make sense?
— Rob Appleby (@wildspyrob) June 4, 2019
Steph
18 December 2019 4:00am
Hi Helen, what tags are you using? Position on the animal and what species?
24 December 2019 5:07pm
HI there,
Biotrack combined Avian GPS SOB tag & PicoPip AG317 Tag on the back of Hawfinch.
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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Recording: Drones
9 November 2019 12:00am
Studying pangolin ecology
16 April 2019 3:59pm
21 October 2019 3:26pm
Hi all, many thanks for the information.
21 October 2019 11:42pm
Hi all,
Great to see this post continue to mature. Some good news for you all. Arribada has finished developing a lower cost open source Argos ARTIC R2 transmitter design with our development partners Icoteq for a National Geographic project. All thanks to @ThomasGray_Argos who originally gifted us 3 R2 development chips to work on an open reference design.
It's compatible with the Arribada Horizon GPS tracker, or cellular module if both are required in one device / unit. We'll look to integrate one of the LoRa radios from the Open Collar initiative too to create a comprehensive open solution that can be tweaked to form a viable pangolin tracker based on the attachment and epoxy designs above (thanks for the paper @Robin+Poches , great research).
However, first up is Bangladesh for some open ocean plastics tracking.
More info here for now - https://www.icoteq.com/icoteqs-argos-satellite-transceiver-now-certified-by-cls/
Cheers,
Alasdair
22 October 2019 3:40pm
Fantastic news, Alasdair. Indeed timely. I was wondering what the finiancial impliation for one unit will be? A price range will suffice. Thanks.
C
Wearable Tech Lions - Current Projects
17 October 2019 10:23am
18 October 2019 3:45am
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 more specific objectives, location, duration and quantity.
Thanks.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Track Birds’ Dark-of-Night Migrations
9 October 2019 12:00am
Looking for opportunity to visit conservationists in Uganda
3 October 2019 2:19pm
Technology lab focused on wildlife protection opens on Ol Pejeta Conservancy
31 May 2019 12:00am
Technology for Wildlife and the Looming Spectre of E-Waste
3 May 2019 12:00am
18 April 2019 3:51pm
Hi Jackson,
Attached a few images showing how we attach the koala drop-off to collar material. The first shows the bare nichrome-acrylic plate with the nylon line in-situ. There's also a picture of an actual koala drop-off with the line exiting the plate. Lastly, the triple overhand knots (repeated so the knots are doubled over and secure) tying the line through the collar material. Normally, we hide the nylon by splicing the collar material in half, tying the knots, and then gluing the collar material back together so no nylon is exposed.
Does all that make sense? Any questions just let me know.
Cheers,
Rob