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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21 April 2024 7:10pm
Hey Sol,
No problem at all. Depending on your configuration, the Audiomoth software would have to work on a PCB with an ESP32 chip which is the unit on the audiomoth/hydromoth, so you would have to make a PCB centered around this chip. You could mimic the functionality of the audiomoth software on another chip, like on a raspberry pi with python's pyaudio library for example. The problem you would have is that the H1A requires phantom power, so it's not plug and play. I'm not too aware with the H1e, but maybe you can control the microphone through the recorder that is programmable through activations by the RPi (not that this is the most efficient MCU for this application, but it is user friendly). A simpler solution might be to just record continuously and play a sound or take notes of when your 10 min deployment starts. I think it should last you >6 hours with a set of lithium energizer batteries. You may want to think about putting a penetrator on the PVC housing for a push button or switch to start when you deploy. They make a few waterproof options.
Just somethign else that occured to me, but if you're dropping these systems, you'll want to ensure that the system isn't wobbling in the seagrass as that will probably be all you will hear on the recordings, especially if you plan to deploy shallower. For my studies in Curacao, we aim to be 5lbs negative, but this all depends on your current and surface action. You might also want to think about the time of day you're recording biodiversity in general. I may suggest recording the site for a bit (a couple days or a week) prior to your study to see what you should account for (e.g. tide flow/current/anthropogenic disturbance) and determine diel patterning of vocalizations you are aiming to collect if subsampling at 10 minutes.
Cheers,
Matt
3 May 2024 12:55pm
Hi Sol,
If the maximum depth is 30m, it would be worth experimenting with HydroMoth in this application especially if the deployment time is short. As Matt says, the air-filed case means it is not possible to accurately calibrate the signal strength due to the directionality of the response. For some applications, this doesn't matter. For others, it may.
Another option for longer/deeper deployments would be an Aquarian H2D hydrophone which will plug directly into AudioMoth Dev or AudioMoth 1.2 (with the 3.5mm jack added). You can then use any appropriately sized battery pack.
If you also connect a magnetic switch, as per the GPS board, you can stop and start recording from outside the housing with the standard firmware.
Alex
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This is so cool @Mauricio_Akmentins - congrats and look forward to seeing your project evolve!
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Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!!
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Thanks, and that's a match!
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I don't have an easy solution or a specific recommendation, but I try to track all the systems that do at least one of those things here:
https://agentmorris.github.io/camera-trap-ml-survey/#camera-trap-systems-using-ml
That's a list of camera trap analysis / data management systems that use AI in some way, but in practice, just about every system available now uses AI in some way, so it's a de facto list of tools you might want to at least browse.
AFAIK there are very few tools that are all of (1) a data management system, (2) an image review platform, and (3) an offline tool. If "no Internet access" still allows for access to a local network (e.g. WiFi within the ranger station), Camelot is a good starting point; it's designed to have an image database running on a local network. TRAPPER has a lot of the same properties, and @ptynecki (who works on TRAPPER) is active here on WILDLABS.
Ease of use is in the eye of the beholder, but I think what you'll find is that any system that has to actually deal with shared storage will require IT expertise to configure, but systems like Camelot and TRAPPER should be very easy to use from the perspective of the typical users who are storing and reviewing images every day.
Let us know what you decide!
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Can't beat Dan's list!
I would just add that if you're interested in broader protected area management, platforms like EarthRanger and SMART are amazing, and can integrate with camera-trapping (amongst other) platforms.
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Ha - you're already in my thread, i've got your project in there, don't worry!
But it's more I don't want proof of concept early R&D type projects that are just destined for a paper or a hobby project, I want to hear about projects that have some plan for usability and scaling so that other people can take and implement them.
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I think that my system is likely the closest thing you will find in terms of production ready and potential to scale as it once was a commercial system with complete over the air updates more than 10 years ago. It’s been in use by many people for more than 10 years and has used AI triggering since 2019. I’m pretty sure no other system can claim that.
So I have the system but you got me on the scalability because to do that you need funding. I don’t have the funding. If I had the funding I’d be doing it full time. But I’ve said enough now. So I’ll leave it at that.
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This thread is off-topic in this conversation, so happy to continue it in the other one. However, just noting - your system is one example, but not the only one - there are certainly other early warning systems in varying stages of development, testing and roll out, and using different levels of technology (ai or otherwise).
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Thank you for your response Akiba. I will have a look. 👏🏻
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Thank you Carly, I will definitely take a look.
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Great suggestion! Diving bird studies and their analyses are actually what has helped me get thus far with solving this problem. They happen to have done quite the same thing as I'm trying to do, just with more behaviors added. I believe the study was done with murres and kittiwakes.
Best,
Travis
27 February 2024 8:48pm
I'm very close to solving the problem. Just waiting for a function to run on a fairly large dataset to see the results. I will share the repository link with you when it gets accomplished!
The species I'm working with roost atop cave ceiling as also drop from there to get airborne!
Yes, they are triaxial (Technosmart) and body mounted right on their backs.
So far, I have created thresholds for different metrics derived from the accelerometer data. Essentially, I sectioned out a bunch of ACC data where I am positive flight is occurring, and did the exact same with roosting, and crawling around/scratching(activity while roosting). From there, I plotted the distribution of all the metrics to see which metrics have unique distributions that were significantly different than roosting/activity.
Using those distributions, I created thresholds for the important metrics in which all flight behavior was either above or below a certain value for that metric. This got me to being able to construct a decision tree based on these metrics which had pretty solid accuracy.
The downside is a small chunk of flight from the beginning and end of flight bouts are not being included in the behavior classification. I noticed that their wbf during those small chunk are indicative of flight and am going to try and add wbf as the last decision on the tree to improve the accuracy of it.
VeDBA is also being included and calculated and based on the values for the thresholds I have created for flight it should not matter how high their head is, rather how low it is, when x y and z thresholds are also met. If that makes sense.
Hope I answered most of your questions!
27 February 2024 8:59pm
Were you ever able to solve the problem? Interestingly enough, I begin a seal bio-logging study next year!
Also, you are correct. The errors were occurring during short bout flights as well as some spectral leakage, but I may have solved the problem by lower the window size. I've also corrected for the spectral leakage by creating a separate function that identifies any significant changes in calculated WBF that last < 2 seconds, then counts number of heave amplitudes within 1 second. I'm using an fft for the calculations and am just waiting for a function to run on a larger dataset to see if everything came out the way I am hoping for. Fingers crossed.
Best,
Travis
15 April 2024 6:53am
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for your advice, this is really helpful!
I'm planning to use it in a seagrass meadow survey for a series of ~20 drops/sites to around 30 m, recording for around 10 minutes each time, in Cornwall, UK.
At this stage I reckon we won't exceed 30 m, but based on your advice, I think this sounds like not the best setup for the surveys we want to try.
We will try the Aquarian H1a, attached to the Zoom H1e unit, through a PVC case. This is what Aquarian recommended to me when I contacted them too.
Thanks for the advice, to be honest the software component is what I was most interested in when it came to the AudioMoth- is there any other open source software you would recommend for this?
Best wishes,
Sol