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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.

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efficient methods for labeling clusters of fish in images for segmentation purposes 

Tongfei Yang

16 July 2024 9:43pm

Hi everyone,Our team is working on a project involving the segmentation of individual fish within clusters (groupers specifically). We have images with hundreds of groupers...

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Lampros Mouselimis

5 August 2024 9:58am

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:

 

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Rapid Camera Trap labeling with ChatGPT

Sara Olsson

17 July 2024 3:19pm

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....

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Herdhanu Jayanto

20 July 2024 3:28pm

super interesting, thank you for sharing! definitely will watch!

Sarah Mshanga

3 August 2024 7:46pm

Really interesting, I will take a look

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WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 - Mobilizing Motus: optimizing a wildlife tracking data pipeline for aninternational, collaborative conservation technology community

Lucas Berrigan

13 July 2024 10:04pm

We’re delighted to introduce our project, Mobilizing Motus. Motus, a Latin word for movement, is a collaborative wildlife tracking system that uses automated radio telemetry...

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Firetail 12.2 released

Tobias Petri

12 June 2024 7:01pm

Hi all!I'm happy to announce that we just released Firetail - release 12.2A few new things in a nutshellA new evaluation module for evaluating the performance of predicted...

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Tobias Petri

25 June 2024 6:00pm

New short tutorial available



 

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Behavioral logging from video

Kyler Abernathy

12 July 2024 6:01pm

Hi everyone.  I wanted to ask if anyone has found a tool that they'd recommend for logging/coding behavior from video.  I've used BORIS and do like that (and it's free...

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Rob Appleby

26 July 2024 1:59pm

Hi @KylerA long time no speak! I've used BORIS mostly too, but I've also heard good things about CowLog, so could be worth a look. I also found this (now 4-year-old) paper that discusses a few different options, in case you hadn't seen it before. 

All the best,

Rob

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Simple Data Standards for wildlife reserve management scenarios?

HeinrichS

23 July 2024 7:16am

Hi - I've been lurking on Wildlabs for a while, consuming as much info as humanly possible, but I seem to miss specific info for my current needs.I'm the self appointed in house...

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Carly Batist

24 July 2024 5:48pm

Just as a note, you might also be interested in specific protected area management software like SMART or EarthRanger as well!

HeinrichS

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. 

 

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Auto ID Software for NA Amphibians?

Cortney Dean

20 July 2024 3:57am

Hi All!So I'm currently running 4 Wildlife Acoustic Song Meter MiniBats at my beaver research and control sites as a means to measure species richness. 2 units at each site, one...

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Vanesa Reyes

24 July 2024 5:12pm

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!

Carly Batist

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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Move BON Development: Follow up discussion

Lacey Hughey

19 June 2024 12:02pm

Hey Biologging Community! We just launched a new initiative to mobilize animal tracking data in support of national and global scale conservation goals (learn more here!). If you...

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Akiba

12 July 2024 5:38am

Hi Talia! 

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.

CathyNj

22 July 2024 9:24pm

@cmwainaina please take a look

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Looking for literature materials/any useful data on HHC(Human-Hippopotamus Conflict) mitigation and coexistence.

Loveness L Mutungi

12 June 2024 7:24pm

Hello Wildlabbers,I am looking for anyone who have done some research on human-hippopotamus conflict mitigation and coexistence or anyone who might have some scientific info/...

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Nyangeta Magesa

7 July 2024 10:07am

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.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&sca_esv=23430e1df8f38b82&channel=fs&q=Assessing+Human-Wildlife+Conflict+with+Hippopotamuses+in+the+Context+of+Wildlife+Conservation+from+the+African+Journal+of+Ecology.&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigkNqHx5SHAxXi0gIHHaOBA-EQgwN6BAgFEAE

 

 

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Rapid Camera Trap labeling with ChatGPT

Sara Olsson

17 July 2024 3:02pm

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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Data Manager, Conservation International

Esther Githinji

8 July 2024 2:40pm

Conservation International are seeking a data expert to help (a) serve as a day-to-day technical project manager to ensure data collection, data management, and data quality control with global program teams and...

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Question About Interpolation

Raul Castillo

18 June 2024 10:52pm

Hello! I am a Computer Science Student experimenting with the multi-step models on TensorFlow's "Time series forecasting" tutorial.I am applying to the models the positional data...

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Larry O'Brien

28 June 2024 6:35pm

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.

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'recurse' R package help

Zach Ng

17 June 2024 11:49pm

Hi all!  I am researching the spatio-temporal movements of reintroduced eagles, using the recurse package in R Software (developed by Bracis et al. - using the bird 'Leo...

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NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!

Consolata Gathoni Gitau

17 June 2024 11:33am

One of the most thrilling moments for any researcher is seeing their hard work published for the world to see. As part of the Women in Conservation Technology (WiCT) Kenya Cohort One, we not only learnt about the use of...

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Esther Githinji

17 June 2024 12:57pm

Congratulations Consolata!!! So exciting to read this :)
Sarah Maagi

17 June 2024 7:40pm

Many congratulation Consolata for such a milestone.
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Fauna & Flora: Bridging geospatial data and people together for enhanced conservation management

Stephanie O'Donnell

17 April 2024 11:31am

Hi folks!@Chelsea_Smith from Fauna & Flora joined last month's variety hour to share more about Fauna & Flora's work with geospatial data. I invited her along as I thought...

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Aaron Kennedy

13 June 2024 8:51pm

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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New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group

Frank van der Most

5 June 2024 3:24pm

WildLabs will soon launch a 'Funding and Finance' group. What would be your wish list for such a group? Would you be interested in co-managing or otherwise helping out?

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 4:14pm

This is great, Frank! @StephODonnell, maybe we can try to bring someone from #Superorganism (@tomquigley ?) or another venture company (#XPRIZE) into the fold!
Paul Edonga

6 June 2024 1:38am

I find the group to be dope, fundraising in the realm of conservation has been tough especially for emerging conservation leaders. There are no centralized grants tracking common...
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