Software and mobile applications are equally as important to conservation technology as the hardware used in the field. Increasingly developed specifically for #tech4wildlife needs, there are mobile apps and software options designed to help with protected area management, wildlife crime reporting, and anti-poaching patrol planning, data analysis, community science, data visualization and GIS mapping, outreach and engagement, and even conservation storytelling.
Likewise, mobile games have opened up new avenues for engaging the public in conservation efforts, allowing for immersive storytelling and interactive experiences. By combining cutting-edge technology and important conservation information with a media form already familiar to the public, conservationists are finding exciting ways to make audiences feel personally invested in critical species and habitats.
Whether you're looking for software and mobile app developers to help you with your own conservation tech needs, you have questions about development, you're looking for resources, or you'd like to share your own app, software, or gaming tools, this is the group for you!
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The Arbimon newsletter is back!
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Interesting read on how tech is contributing to climate change and what companies are doing to improve sustainability.
New tutorial on Firetail 10 - annotation of acceleration data
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Hi! I created a new tutorial video on how to annotate high density acceleration data using Firetail 10 (www.firetail.de). In particular, I cover
* how to automatically segment your data
* how to edit and modify annotations
* how to transfer models across individuals
* how to overlay external and video annotations
If you like to follow the tutorial, grab
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* the free edition of Firetail from firetail.de
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19 January 2023 5:06pm
If Cybertracker is not suitable, try Claris Filemaker
Not for free ( but your university may have a license already ), but allows you to design your own apps on phones ( iOS only ) and desktop. You'll get a low-code relational database software. Very easy to get started and there is a very active support community for all your questions. FileMaker Go ( for free ), the software to install on the phone, has easy access to GPS, compass and other phone sensors.
For the phone-part you'll be limited to iOS, but I find them good. Just now, I tried the screen of my iPhone 12 mini, and an iPad pro in full sun ( at 11 AM in Costa Rica ), which works fine ( not excellent, but I doubt that exists, unless you use something with e-paper ). Please be aware that full sun is not good for any electronics.
For the desktop part, FileMaker is available for Mac and Windows.
Please note. I am a FileMaker developer myself, so I have an interest ;-) But even if I wasn't I would have mentioned FileMaker here since I used it a lot for my own research before I became a developer
20 January 2023 1:47am
Depending on the type of data you're needing to collect, the EarthRanger or SMART platforms might be helpful. They each have mobile apps but also a suite of integrated software to facilitate analysis, reporting, data mgmt, etc.
Data upload solution for a citizen science project?
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20 October 2022 10:54am
If you have a server and can host a solution, install on the server your own instance of Next Cloud, Pydio or similar - it's exactly what you need without reinventing the wheel.
23 October 2022 8:25am
Strongly supporting the Nextcloud/owncloud suggestion -
apart from bringing everything you list in your requirements, it would give you a lot of features that might be useful as the project grows (versioning, failover for lost/failed data, sharing, ..)
Available for more advice, if needed.
19 January 2023 5:21pm
Hi Jim, could you please update us on your final choice and experience so far?
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New paper - An evaluation of platforms for processing camera-trap data using artificial intelligence
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We review key characteristics of four AI platforms—Conservation AI, MegaDetector, MLWIC2: Machine Learning for Wildlife Image Classification and Wildlife Insights—and two auxiliary platforms—Camelot and Timelapse—that incorporate AI output for processing camera-trap data. We compare their software and programming requirements, AI features, data management tools and output format. We also provide R code and data from our own work to demonstrate how users can evaluate model performance.
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Thank you for the response! I'm not sure how to find that out. It says MP4. Is that what you're looking for?
21 December 2022 7:46pm
Did you get any further with this Britnee?
26 December 2022 6:54pm
No, I was never able to figure out how to send these to anyone on here. I was hoping to learn how to clear these videos up if possible!
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You might try reaching out to the folks at Wild Immersion, Internet of Elephants, or Sounding Wild, who are all working (in part) in the AR/VR for wildlife space.
27 October 2022 2:51pm
Fab - thanks Carly!
Software to aid acoustic sound files visualization/labelling + Software to syncronize video/acoustic sonograms
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8 October 2022 12:44am
I would also recommend Arbimon. It is well set up to handle Audiomoth recordings. Being cloud based, you will need a good internet connection for sound file upload. I'm just starting to investigate its use for Song Scope recordings. Setting up the call recognisers will be a slow process, but they can be made available to all users once done.
8 October 2022 7:33am
You could try using a video editor like DaVinci for looking at your video and audio together. I don't think DaVinci displays sonograms by default (just waveform) but I think it will open your selected audio in an external editor which would allow you to see the sonograms and make measurements with something like Audacity or Kaleidoscope.
20 October 2022 11:01am
The open-source program Audacity can show the spectrograms and histograms and has quite a lot of other useful features, e.g. playing ultrasound calls slower, so it can be heard by people.
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Conservation Tech Directory - new update!
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Congrats on the milestone Carly and Gracie!
26 September 2022 10:07pm
Thanks so much!!
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16 January 2023 11:59am
Have a look at CyberTracker:
I believe you can probably set up something to use as a behavioural log to export as .csv or similar.
On the hardware side I would look at a Samsung X cover series or CAT and would probably invest in battery banks as power backup.