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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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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Hello! I am PhD student studying Animal behaviour and welfare at the University of Lincoln. I am specializing in studying gopher tortoise cognition and applying what we learn to conservation practices.
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Love it! Covers so many of my interests - conservation, beekeeping and fiddling with Arduinos - would love to know more about the project. |
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Mangrove soundscape
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Camilo--
Are you interested only in airborne sounds or do you want to deploy hydrophones? That decision would inform a lot of other decisions about your purchase of equipment, as would having a clearer picture of your budget.
23 September 2022 5:39pm
Hi there Camilo,
What an interesting project! If you are looking for a lower cost, but effective tools for acoustic monitoring you might want to look into two options:
SoundTraps - are very commonly used and perform quite well:
SonarPoints - these are also a great instrument option:
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Hi folks! I built out a human-in-the-loop annotation platform for Felidae Conservation Fund, a SF-Bay Area nonprofit last Fall using MegaDetector. I'm looking for feedback from this amazing community around areas of collaboration, especially data/software resources we can share!
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Hi Dexter,
In case you have not found your solution yet: I don't know of an off the shelf solution for what you need, but it seems to me that any more or less developed relational database software can do the core of what you are looking for.
You'll need to develop the database application to model (perhaps people from Hemmersbach can help with that) and store what data you want to capture about suspects, incidents, firearms and what have you.
Export to XL should be a no-brainer .
Entity-relationship visualization (I think you mean networks of suspects, firearms, etc.) is not easy for such softwares, but exporting the data and then importing to a network visualizer (GEPHI perhaps) should be possible.
For temporal and spatial data you would do something similar. Don't let the database software do it (unless it has a plugin or extension for it) but export to Geographical Information System software. I can not suggest any, but there must be plenty of that around, probably even open source/freeware.
If you insist on having it all integrated, then that is probably possible, but you'll have to pay a developer for it.
Hopefully this helps
Frank
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Use of apps to monitor wildlife trade
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Not designed specifically for wildlife marketplaces, but SMART Collect can be used for citizen science and community reporting projects.
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DeerLab.com's trail camera software was built to manage and analyze photos. It's a cloud-based web application that has a number of features, from photo recognition to manual tagging of any animal. While geared toward hunters, it's also used for camera trap studies.
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Biologists without Borders has developed a free mobile app (i of the Elephant) that lets the public report where ivory is being sold. We send our reports of ivory being offered for sale to US Fish and Wildlife, State wildlife agents, National Whistleblowers Center, and the Department of Homeland Security for investigation and prosecution. So far, our intel has led to six successful prosecutions in the US. It can be used anywhere in the world.
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You might check out the devices listed in the Conservation Tech Directory - you can search for 'acoustic recorder' or 'ARU' or something like that.
The most common off-the-shelf models (other than Frontier Labs' BARLTs mentioned above😊) are Open Acoustic Devices Audiomoths & Hydromoths (which may be particularly useful for you since they come in completely watertight cases that can be stuck underwater for deployments), Wildlife Acoustics' SongMeter series, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Swift units.