Powerful conservation tech tools are gathering more data in the field than ever before. But without equally powerful and effective data management and processing tools, that data - no matter how groundbreaking or interesting - will not be able to reach its full potential for impact.
Data management can sometimes seem intimidating to conservationists, especially those just getting started in the world of conservation tech or experimenting with new data collection methods. While every community member's workflow and preferred data management and processing methods may be different, this group can serve as a resource to explore what works for others, share your own advice, and develop new strategies together.
Below are a few WILDLABS events dealing with datasets collected from various conservation tech tools:
Nicole Flores: How do I get started with Wildlife Insights?
Jamie Macaulay: How do I analyse large acoustic datasets using PAMGuard?
Sarah Davidson: Tools for Bio-logging Data in Conservation
Whatever conservation tech tools you work with, and whatever your preferred data management methods, we hope you'll find something helpful and effective in this group when you become a member!
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RubberBootsData
Field data capture and management app developer (Win, Mac, iOS, Web), with an interest in funding and finance
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I'm the Bioacoustics Research Analyst at WILDLABS. I'm a marine biologist with particular interest in the acoustics behavior of cetaceans. I'm also a backend web developer, hoping to use technology to improve wildlife conservation efforts.
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Remote Sensing Scientist working at Fauna & Flora
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Brazilian biologist, PhD in Ecology and 10 yrs of experience in the Amazon with bat bioacoustics
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
I'm the Executive Manager at WILDLABS.
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hi, if your intention is to use programming and a programming language like Python then one option which can give good results is the SAM (Segment Anything) or SAM-2 algorithm.... |
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Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation | 1 week 3 days ago | |
Really interesting, I will take a look |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech | 1 week 6 days ago | |
Great Project !! |
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Data management and processing tools | 1 week 6 days ago | |
interesting!!! |
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AI for Conservation, Biologging, Data management and processing tools | 2 weeks 2 days ago | |
Hadn't heard of CowLog, thanks Rob! |
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Data management and processing tools | 2 weeks 3 days ago | |
Thanks!I'm definitely looking at Smart and EarthRanger for overall management eventually, but for now I just want to track what we have better - especially as a base map to... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS, Data management and processing tools | 3 weeks 1 day ago | |
Retweet on OpenSoundscape - great package and documentation that allows you to build your own CNNs! Note that this is in Python though. There are tons of bioacoustics... |
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@cmwainaina please take a look |
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Hi @nyangetamagesa , i'm so grateful for our input. |
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This was not the most significant or important update for the Mothbox, but it’s one I think is quite fun! It’s also quite... |
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The use of synthetic training data such as interpolated sequence values is common, but fraught with the issue of your synthetic signal generating features that are not true to... |
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Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Hi all! I am researching the spatio-temporal movements of reintroduced eagles, using the recurse package in R Software (... |
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Really interesting, I will take a look
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Hadn't heard of CowLog, thanks Rob!
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Just as a note, you might also be interested in specific protected area management software like SMART or EarthRanger as well!
25 July 2024 10:11am
Thanks!
I'm definitely looking at Smart and EarthRanger for overall management eventually, but for now I just want to track what we have better - especially as a base map to support further advanced management activities. Funding and available human resources to effectively manage a tech based scientific and best practice focused solution is in short supply - but will hopefully be better addressed within the next year or two.
Auto ID Software for NA Amphibians?
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Hi Cortney,
I recommend exploring the tools developed by Kitzes Lab, such as OpenSoundscape, which can be used for the automatic detection of anurans. Here's a reference paper that might be useful. You might also consider reaching out directly to Justin Kitzes @jkitzes for more specialized advice.
Also here is a another paper that use BirdNet to automatically detect the bullfrog presence.
Best of luck with your analyses!
24 July 2024 6:15pm
Retweet on OpenSoundscape - great package and documentation that allows you to build your own CNNs! Note that this is in Python though.
There are tons of bioacoustics software and packages in @tessa_rhinehart 's helpful list too! Some more recent options that I don't think are on that yet are Whombat and gibbonNetR (which uses the 'Torch for R' ecosystem).
Also, Raven has template- and energy-based detectors you could try as well. The monitoR and warbleR packages allow you to do template-based detections too. BirdNET is integrated into Raven now as well.
You can also try Kaleidoscope's native clustering function.
Agree with you that there's definitely not enough resources for frog detection though! I'm assuming the Australian one you found is FrogID? There is also AnuraSet, but this is for neotropical frogs.
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I feel like the topic is so broad that it might help to put some constraints around things, see what works, and then broaden those out. I have a lot of ideas regarding the data monitoring and collection side based on the other sensor and observation networks we've set up in the past.
There may also be some potential scope to incorporate things like data collection and integrated monitoring to the Build Your Own Datalogger series where the system is updated to feed data into the observation network.
It'd probably take a bit of discussion and coordination. Let me know if interested. I'm fine to jump on a call or discuss via email too.
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Hi loveness,
Your doing great here are some research that may be helpful on what your looking for
search for article of Human-Hippopotamus Conflict: Impacts and Mitigation Strategies published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
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Hey @Agripinacletus , thank you so much for your constructive input.
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Hi @nyangetamagesa , i'm so grateful for our input.
Rapid Camera Trap labeling with ChatGPT
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Hi all, I've published a blog post on rapidly labeling camera trap data using ChatGPT for species identification and a simple object detection model to get the bounding boxes. While presented in Edge Impulse, this approach can be replicated outside the platform using Python scripts for example. I’d love for you to give it a read and share your thoughts on its potential usefulness in real-world applications.
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The use of synthetic training data such as interpolated sequence values is common, but fraught with the issue of your synthetic signal generating features that are not true to real life.
Instead, you might think about about appending the values of two long-period sin waves per input element to the sequence going in to your first linear / fully-connected layer. The simplest thing that could possibly work would be to interpret minute of the day and day of the month as the values of your sin wave! (Or perhaps minute/hour if all training sequences are quite short.) Since you’re doing sequence prediction, you would add the appropriate values for each image(?) in the sequence being evaluated.
With that additional signal going in to the model in the early layers, the NN should have a good chance of learning that the differences in the modulating signal corresponds to distance in time.
This technigue was popularized by early Large Language Models to encode the distance between words. There’s been refinement (search “Rotary Encoding” for instance) but the basic idea of sin waves generalizes well.
'recurse' R package help
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This is amazing! Thank you for sharing. I'm speaking on this topic at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in October. If you have any other resources on this topic, let me know! Closing the loop for "Science to Action" is a huge part of the work we do so I'm always looking to learn.
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Tagging @Chelsea_Smith so she sees this :)
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hi, if your intention is to use programming and a programming language like Python then one option which can give good results is the SAM (Segment Anything) or SAM-2 algorithm. The following weblinks include more information: