GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, play a crucial role in nature conservation. Every day, mapping and spatial analysis are aiding conservation decisions, protected areas designation, habitat management on reserves and monitoring of wildlife populations, to name but a few examples. Want to learn more about how remote sensing is used in conservation? Check out the first two episodes of this season of Tech Tutors, where our Tutors answer the questions How do I use open source remote sensing data to monitor fishing? and How do I access and visualise open source remote sensing data in Google Earth Engine?
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Chartered Geographer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 32 years in GIS, currently as a Senior Product Manager. Main interests: biogeography, biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, ecosystem services, rewilding.
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I studied Wildlife and Ecotourism Management in University of Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, I'm a front-end developer. I am interested in conservation technology
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'Diploma of Conservation & Ecosystem Management' student at TAFE NSW Australia.
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The Future Forest Company (FFC) team are looking for an enthusiastic, early career data and GIS administrator to join them. The role will manage spatial and operational data, with a particular focus on carbon from...
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We are a team of ecologists and technologists who believe good business must be good for nature. We’re building an economy that puts nature and business in balance by incentivising the restoration of nature at scale.
16 May 2023
We are a team of ecologists and technologists who believe good business must be good for nature. We’re building an economy that puts nature and business in balance by incentivising the restoration of nature at scale.
2 May 2023
Global Fishing Watch are looking for a data scientist to join the Research and Innovation team. Help us tackle geospatial data fusion problems to produce the most complete picture of human activity at sea.
19 April 2023
How to use geospatial data for rapid analyses of forest carbon projects
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How environmental consultancy Eticwood use geospatial data for rapid forest carbon project assessments
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This technical workshop was recorded at the Esri Developer Summit 2021. Presenters use packages to make GIS workflows reproducible through code, work with spatial data and make relevant maps using open source packages...
21 March 2023
The Innovation in Practice edition of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is still seeking proposals about conservation technology
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Scholarships available for training courses focussing on nature restoration in East Africa
21 February 2023
The Zoological Society of London, with the support of WILDLABS and the UK Space Agency, are proud to publish this new guide to satellite technologies for tracking wildlife.
17 February 2023
As part of the AniMove eLearning programme, you are now able to stream 2022 Animal movement & remote sensing course lectures opensource.
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The ISPRS-SC is soliciting stories for our newsletter articles which will be published in our website: http://sc.isprs.org... |
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Fantastic opportunity - thanks for sharing, @dave ! The Google Earth Engine User Summit 2017 was convened this week also at Google in CA. I know that @... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 6 years 11 months ago | |
The next social is on Thursday 27th - same details as above. Hope to see you there! |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 7 years ago | |
It's that time again; on Thursday 13th we'll be heading to The Eagle on Benet Street from 18:00 to talk maps. This... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 7 years 1 month ago | |
This meeting will now be followed by the Missing Maps May Mapathon - Cambridge from 18:00 - 20:30, which will also be hosted at the British Antarctic Survey. We also plan to... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 7 years 1 month ago | |
Join us this May for another evening of humanitarian mapping (and pizza!). No previous experience required. On Thursday 18th May from... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 7 years 1 month ago | |
Thanks for adding the photo from the event. Missing Maps is becoming really popular, so tasks get completed quite quickly. We shared the task numbers for people to finish off at... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 7 years 1 month ago | |
Hi @P.Glover.Kapfer Have you looked at the Environment Agency LiDAR data available under the Open Government Licence and available from http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/... |
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Hi, I'm a GIS consultant to conservation and research groups, mostly using ArcGIS and, increasingly, QGIS. Lately I've been doing a lot of work with satellite imagery. I... |
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Thanks for the update, @joelm . I wonder why they were cancelled - lack of uptake or something else? I'll see what I can find out. |
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Last week's GIS social topics included: IfSAR and InSAR Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, as used by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in their new TanDEM-X... |
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The Cambridge Conservation Forum's Conservation GIS group had returned! If you're based in or around Cambridge, and are... |
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Wow, thanks for sharing, @ZoeLieb ! Great initiative and wonderful opportunity for people to contribute to the atlas. Good luck!
Using AIS Data to Investigate the World’s Fishing Ports
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SCGIS New Year's Happy Hour Meetup
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Event: Role of GIS in Ocean Conservation
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Drone Mapping for Algal Blooms?
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Hi Ryan,
Great question. I think it depends on the water clarity and illumination of the water (solar angle can have a big impact on this). I was able to fly above the water and see down to about 2-3 meters below the water's surface down to the benthic algae in the Klamath River last summer. I was flying a Phantom 4 Pro.
Hope this helps!
Chippie
19 December 2020 1:05am
OK that opens up some doors. The mavic mini is a lot less expensive and can fly for 30 minutes at a time. The only question would be the camera on board and if it's got what you need for your work.
17 January 2021 2:39pm
Hi,
Not exactly what you were looking for, but Public Lab have used balloons with cameras to map oil spills. This could be adapted to your purpose. You could stick one of Ryan's cameras on it and livestream it 24/7.
Here is another old technology that doesn't get talked about.
I have also worked on an AUV, with the ultimate intent of coastal algal bloom detection. This doesn't map a bloom, rather it would report anomalous chlorophyl-a readings. This work is stalled due to lack of testing/development facilities. And money.
Thanks,
-harold
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I think it looks like a really interesting technology, but it's still in the realm of research and academia. They're correct in that it demonstrates device miniaturization and they look like they're pushing the boundaries of printed circuit board sizes. Also the point of these devices seems to be to demonstrate that it's possible to make electronics capable of unpowered flight.
On the practical side, I'd say the devices are more of a proof of concept. The electronics in a system can usually be made very light, but all your weight and size will come in the batteries and then the enclosure. You can achieve something very similar by using a technology called flex/rigid PCBs which are already commercially available and can be custom ordered online. These are commercially fabricated circuit boards, typically used in mobile phones, that have a rigid part where the ICs would be mounted and a flexible part for interconnect, wiring, or mounting discrete components like resistors and capacitors. You'd be able to make these very light since they use a very thin polyimide (high temperature plastic) substrate and you can fabricate in the same winged form factor as what the researchers used. It'd be interesting to see if they make the mechanical files available to others.
Akiba