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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Hi! I am Frida Ruiz, a current Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student very interested in habitat restoration & conservation. I am excited to connect with others and learn about technology applications within applied ecology & potential research opportunities
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Southern African Wildlife College
I am ecologist working in African conservation areas who loves wildlife & wild landscapes. I increasingly recognize that conservation is about people, especially those living in & around protected areas. Finding ways to benefit marginalized people is my passion.
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PhD candidate studying drone flight planning for enabling tracking and identification of individual characteristics of wildlife; member of the WildDrone, an MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research
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A Nigerian business journalist
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Movement Ecologist studying the where, why, and how animals move throughout our world. Current work is investigating the movement and energetics of large neotropical bats in a changing environment with ephemeral resources.
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Hi, I'm pursuing Master's in Data Science. And I want work help protect nature and wildlife.
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The National Geographic Society calls for storytelling project proposals for short film, writing, data visualization or other means, addressing 'the greatest questions of our time'
11 August 2024
Read our exciting interview with Samuel Mangi, a Marine Expert working to conserve sea turtles at Bahari Hai in Watamu using underwater monitoring tools and cloud storage.
19 July 2024
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...
8 July 2024
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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...
17 June 2024
Wildlife Drones was deployed by Zoos Victoria in a trial project tracking captive-bred Eastern Barred Bandicoots that were tagged and released into the wild
14 June 2024
€4,000 travel grants are available for researchers interested in insect monitoring using automated cameras and computer vision
6 June 2024
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?
5 June 2024
Now accepting applications for two $15,000 grants to help protect wildlife through cutting-edge, technology-driven efforts
3 June 2024
An aspiring software engineer with a passion for coding and technology
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Do you have photos and videos of your conservation tech work? We want to include them in a conservation technology showcase video
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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 5 days ago | |
Great Project !! |
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interesting!!! |
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AI for Conservation, Biologging, Data management and processing tools | 2 weeks 1 day ago | |
Hadn't heard of CowLog, thanks Rob! |
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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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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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Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, @Nhanq !
6 April 2021 8:42pm
The GBIF backbone taxonomy is composed of Catalogue of Life, ITIS, the Red List and dozens of other checklists. It's just been updated again, but this blogpost from a 2019 update does a good job of explaining what it is: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-backbone-taxonomy/
Another more recent post can help get one up to speed on using it via our species API: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-species-api/
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Dan's comments about the need for technologists and conservationists to manage and share (properly annotated) data struck a chord with me, it was right at the end of the presentation.
I fired off a point into the chat "could your old background data be my background data?" or something similar, and it got me thinking...
(Firstly, sorry for clouding this issue with my simultaneous "Ian Tuna" joke)
In the context of using AI as described in EdgeImpulse example, lets say - audio.
Lets say Group A are trying to detect the roar of lions, and Group B are trying to detect the grunt of wild pigs, and lets imagine that is in roughly the same area of Africa. I mean they could both send out teams to capture the sound of their target animal, and the sound of NOT their target animal, e.g everything else.
Well if "serengetti sounds" was a known audio track, then all you need is the unique sound of the beast in question, am I right?
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Both yes but mainly no, I liked the concept so much I "borrowed" it from "Endangered Safari" including the digitalized mammals.
Behind the scenes it is fairly simple: Just add relevant animals in a powerpoint, save as JPG, import it to
https://synoptic.design/
and name the area that looks like an animal after the animal- notice it must be the same name you have in the database and the same you will use in your reports,
Save it as a SVG- file and now you are ready to use it in tools like Power BI/ Tableau and custom lots of things like colour and it is interactive/ clickable.
Unfortunately the coverage maps in IUCN did not have good enough data quality for our national park,
So when you create a global database add a digital version of the specie and of course, always updated ranges.