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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19 December 2023 12:54am
Which market-available microphones, accelerometers and GIS sensors for dogs / pets ?
7 September 2023 3:21pm
6 December 2023 2:03pm
good to know that GPS coordinates can be used to sync the time.
Does GPS resolution allow to a desired time resolution (e.g. seconds) ? Does choice of time resolution significantly depends on the physiology of the animal (e.g. time of re-action to stimuli, hence less than a second) or for most animal communication and animal behaviour is it enough above a second?
7 December 2023 7:03am
Hi Luigi!
It is not the coordinates but the information from the "pulse per second" from the GPS which is used for the time sync.
Have a look at
17 December 2023 3:02pm
I am not an acoustics person but train and deploy canines in the field. Are you looking for something that records sniff rate and patterns? For GPS I just use a Garmin collar system Altha 100. There is a Conservation Canine group that might be worth asking your question in.
Bear-dar: Updates from the Field
15 December 2023 11:58am
Polar Bear International chat about bear-dar and burr on fur in this video on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfL42Wqctkk
How to Choose a Biologger - Mapping Goat Movement with Annkathrin Sharp
14 December 2023 3:34pm
Data Viz Inspo December 20th
12 December 2023 12:03pm
Data Viz Inspo for the Holidays
11 December 2023 8:42pm
How to Choose a Biologger - Collaring Koalas with Matthew Stanton
7 December 2023 12:00pm
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13 December 2023 10:06pm
Query regarding Biologgers for Freshwater crabs
16 November 2023 4:45am
18 November 2023 10:37pm
My pleasure @Abinesh and if you have any more questions etc., don't hesitate to ask. This is a great community with plenty of smart cookies that can help and also me if I am able!
All the best for your research.
Rob
1 December 2023 8:54pm
Star-Oddi in Iceland comes to mind, but I'm not 100% sure.
3 December 2023 2:43am
Thank you Thomas, you are absolutely right but when I Mailed them, I didn't get a response about the price , shipment and so on! Thus I arrived to find some loggers in India itself
Alternative trackers for study of grey parrots movement patterns
3 November 2023 7:31pm
24 November 2023 9:18am
Hi Thomas thank you for your recommendation.
Yeah getting an appropriate tag for the parrots has really been challenging
24 November 2023 9:20am
Hi Rob,
thank you for the recommendations. I will checkout both options and choose the one which will be well suited for my zone of studies.
Warm Regards, Benedicta
1 December 2023 8:10pm
Hi Ninying,
One benefit of the Pinpoint tags is that they are user-rechargeable, something pretty much unheard of for satellite tags for decades! If you can recover the tags, you might be able to achieve a larger samples size with fewer tags (less $$) by redeploying the recovered tags - without the costs of having the manufacturer refurbish them.
cheers,
Kyler
How to Choose a Biologger - Marine animals with Samantha Andrzejaczek, Jessica Rudd and Lucy Hawkes
30 November 2023 12:03pm
Automatic and open-source radio-tracking
15 November 2023 10:03am
20 November 2023 10:39am
Thanks for the information, I'm going to have a look and will keep you updated if I got any news.
23 November 2023 4:58pm
Hi @tutgut5 @Rob_Appleby
their system has been used in a research project at the University of Marburg (LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Natur 4.0), its also been used in combination with Infra-red videos of bat movements (BatRack). We cooperated with them in 2021 for a small telemetry study, it worked well for us, here is their homepage
(although I'm not sure how up to date it is), if you have questions and would like some more info about their system there is an email address to contact them at.
All the best,
Sarah
24 November 2023 6:22am
Thanks for the information @Sarita , very helpful indeed!!
Cheers,
Rob
ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
23 November 2023 1:25pm
How to Choose a Biologger - Tracking Endangered Seabirds with Yvan Satgé
23 November 2023 12:10pm
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17 November 2023 10:47am
Catch up with The Variety Hour: November 2023
16 November 2023 12:59pm
How to Choose a Biologger - Tracking Elephants with Neus Estela Ribera
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How to Choose a Biologger - Where do I start?
16 November 2023 12:00pm
TWS2023 - get in touch
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I'm registered with the TWS2023 app, so feel free to nudge me there as well
Digital Signals Processing - free online textbook
31 October 2023 1:50pm
I just discovered this freely available book on digital signal processing and love the fact that it is“…intended for students … who may not have much mathematical or engineering training.” Seems like a great resource for bioacoustics, biologing etc!
Movebank tutorial on uploads of tag acceleration and magnetometer data
27 October 2023 2:14pm
5 Trailblazing Wildlife Monitoring Tech Solutions across East Africa. What Monitoring Technologies are you using?
25 October 2023 12:40pm
Project Update: Improving satellite ear tag transmitters for Polar Bears
6 October 2023 1:42pm
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Just when I thought I couldn't get any stupider Steph...at least I am improving at something I guess...
13 October 2023 10:57am
Hey Rob! I also missed this variety hour thinking it was the next day. I enjoyed the recording on youtube though!
Your thoughts on distributing the components to both sides of the ear is interesting. One thing to consider is heat dessipation, I believe. I believe it is important to consider how heat conducting the part going through the ear is. A few cables would perhaps be OK. Ruggedness should have a very high priority and the more compact the device is the better, I would think.
Interesting stuff you shared about the antenna!
Cheers,
Lars
20 October 2023 3:00pm
Cheers @Lars_Holst_Hansen , yes, the antenna foam spacer idea certainly helped us a bit. I completely agree though that ruggedness, especially on a polar bear (a bit different from a koala 'bear') is a top priority, so there's a lot to consider.
Rob
PhD Opportunity - Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological observational data
20 October 2023 12:45pm
PhD Opportunity - Movement through space and time, realistic movement for species abundance methods
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Marine Flyways - Seabird Tracking Database
20 October 2023 12:23pm
To celebrate #WMBD, BirdLife is excited to share the newly identified Marine Flyways!! Seabird tracking data were shared by over 60 researchers from 48 long-distance migratory species and have revealed SIX MarineFlyways. They've created an awesome animation to go along with it!
What Biologgers are you using?
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7 September 2023 10:57am
Interesting. interesting. I'm probably jumping the gun here but I'm curious - are you getting any trends on types of biologgers or specific manufacturers people are talking about? Or is everyone using different tags/manufacturers?
7 September 2023 11:00am
Ah! It's great to find out about your tags - great video, thanks for sharing. We'd love to hear from some of your users about their experiences with your tags! Would you be able to share the poll with your user community?
12 October 2023 12:24pm
Hey Stephanie,
Thanks a lot! Sorry I missed your message but of course I can ask our users about their experience with sensors!
Unravelling freshwater turtle activity with an open source, low-cost accelerometer
6 October 2023 1:04pm
Best Temperature/ Humidity Dataloggers
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11 September 2023 2:49pm
Heya Nick - ooh cool! We thought about the Kestrels but I had heard about some of the problems with them maxing out at 100. Have gone for HOBO Pro V2s
11 September 2023 2:51pm
Heya Matthew cheers for providing a comparison! We went with HOBO Pro V2s which are more expensive but have been working well so far!
23 September 2023 6:14am
Makes sense if you have the cash...
20 December 2023 3:07am
Hi Eva,
Me and my colleagues run a small NGO based on Yogyakarta in Indonesia, although our projects are spread around the country. One of our active project is working with the movement ecology of Sunda gharials in Berbak-Sembilang National Park. One of the other is for Malayan Giant Turtle conservation using one-plan approach, which we are planning to start in situ phase. We can't give you promise about anything, but are able to be the host organization and would love to talk the opportunity!
Cheers,
Dhanu