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).
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Biologging | 3 years 2 months ago | |
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Thanks Thomas. The option of desertstar seems strong, and it needs to be strong for the animals I work with (large carnivores). Indeed the pod would need to be designed to fit the... |
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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
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Number of radio collared animals?
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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
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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?
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HI there,
Biotrack combined Avian GPS SOB tag & PicoPip AG317 Tag on the back of Hawfinch.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks Harold for the clarification on the accuracy of the sensor! Sounds like this isn't where it needs to be for accurate location tracking. I live just down the streen from Diginal Naturalism Labs, Andy is wonderful. Right now I have a network of 20 feeders all over our town which read implanted RFID's of visiting hummingbirds. Our thought was that maybe we could use a temporary glue to attach one of these to the back of a bird, and knowing the exact feeder location and time would allow us to calculate the amount of drift. If feeders were visited often the could be used as recallibration points to reset drift.
Anyways, thank you again for the input. Even if the location tracking aspect doesn't work, tracking the levels of activity would be super interesting! I'll probably start with that :).
14 April 2019 11:53pm
Hi jjinsing,
You could take the 9 axis LSM9DS1 sensor from the Horizon tag (open source) + firmware and build a custom module. Your limitation will be the coin cell battery and switching to a smaller microcontroller to get the size and weight down. What's the weight of the hummingbirds? 11g odd?
There is a tarantular tracking project that requires a similar sized tag (bluetooth base stations to track), so if that gets built you could inherit that in the future. Htarold is correct in that actual location will need a local rfid / base station at the feeding station to know where they are and you'd be looking at behavioural and energetics logged to flash etc.
Cheers,
Alasdair
15 April 2019 2:36am
Hi Jay, Alastair,
Small world! You've got a great resource at your doorstep then (c:
Your idea of tracking the birds between known feeding locations is a good one, and it's made use of here. But I don't know if the drift will cooperate over that long a period. A colleague who looked into cheap accelerometers for navigation told me it doesn't work after 10 seconds or so. But this was some years ago and things may have improved. It might be possible to detect when a bird is stationary, to zero the device. This is like when a fireman puts his foot down in the above case.
Thanks,
-harold
Update on Arribada's Low Cost Open Source Sea Turtle Tag
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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