Tech Tutors: How do I strategically allocate drones for conservation?
16 February 2021 1:01pm
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
12 January 2021 3:46pm
15 February 2021 8:34pm
@itsravenous I saw this too! It's on my to-buy list so I can see what they've done. It looks like a really nice game, very engaging :D
Tech Tutors: How do I get started with LoRa? Connectivity in conservation
11 February 2021 2:59pm
12 February 2021 7:31pm
Thank you, Sean.
Google has found the LoRa - equipped cheetahs, and I will follow that up.
14 February 2021 7:55am
Hi all, good to see more interest for LoRaWAN in conservation. Smart Parks is a not-for-profit organisation that has been promoting, building and supporting LoRaWAN solutions for conservation for at least 6 years now. Part of this is our OpenCollar innitiative, to develop and share an open-source animal tracking solution. Many of you have already supported this innitiative, and the movement is growing fast! We have come very far with the most advanced trackers and collars of all sizes (rhino, pangolin, cheetah, lion, wisent, elephant). A great example is our recent ElephantEdge campaign with Hackster.io. We are are providing this technology as affordable as we can so more wildlife can be protected. Check us out at: www.smartparks.org and www.opencollar.io
14 February 2021 8:04am
That's us (www.smartparks.org) Peter. Happy to help.
Transparency, AI, and Machine Learning Conservation Impacts
3 February 2021 10:12pm
5 February 2021 2:21pm
Hello,
Just spit-balling some ideas, but you might check out WildMe/WildBook, Widlife Insights, the ICARUS/Movebank project, Arbimon, Norway's new imaging initiative (https://www.planet.com/nicfi/), Hack the Poacher, Vulcan's EarthRanger, SmartParks, the SMART app/platform, the TEAM camera trap network?
Not sure if any of this is what you're looking for but just some things that came to mind!
13 February 2021 12:14am
Thanks Carly,
These are great ideas. The movebank recommendation reminds me of some work from Save the Elephants that used its transparency to exonerate an elephant that had been accused of eating up some crops. I didn't know about Hack the Poacher - I'll check that out. I'm familiar with the others, but will dig deeper to understand the transparency angle. I work on Wildlife Insights, so know that one well. TEAM has essentially morphed into Wildlife Insights as I understand things.
Thanks again!
Best,
Thau
Sound library for small terrestrial mammals
31 January 2021 1:42pm
12 February 2021 6:05pm
Stuart, that is really cool! Are these clips translated into audible frequency range?
12 February 2021 8:26pm
Hi Phil, the playable spectrograms have been translated into the audible frequency range (by playing in 10 x time expansion), becuase the small mammal calls are mainly above our hearing range, but a copy of the original wav files can be downloaded from the web site.
12 February 2021 9:15pm
Ah, perfect. I was wondering why I never hear those calls!
That's really nice work, thanks so much for sharing!
Windows explorer video thumbnails
26 September 2019 9:31am
12 February 2021 7:10pm
This works very well, and can remove the movie strip icons from the edges of the thumbnails, which obscure animals just coming into the frame. https://icaros.en.softonic.com/
Using a Wildlife Detector Dog for Locating Eastern Indigo Snakes
12 February 2021 2:26pm
New Paper: Drones and Bornean Orangutan Distribution
12 February 2021 12:00am
WildTrack Women in Science Day, 11 February 2021
11 February 2021 1:48pm
Consulting Opportunity: Product Manager - Supply Chain Traceability
11 February 2021 4:34am
News: FieldKit Presales and WSJ Feature
11 February 2021 12:00am
Module 4: Tying It All Together
11 February 2021 12:00am
Who’s who - Introduce yourself!
7 December 2018 4:42pm
5 September 2019 7:54pm
Welcome to the group, @divyar ! Can you please tell us a little more about yourself and your interests in this thread? Thanks!
9 January 2020 7:41pm
Hi all! I hope everyon had a restful break. We have a couple new members to the group! @dalenerusso and @ediminin can you please introduce yourselves here?
9 February 2021 1:57am
Hello All,
My name is Karima Cherif and I work for WildAid Marine and our focus is to end wildlife trafficking in our lifetime. I specialize in marine electronics and work in Gabon, Galapagos, Tanzania, and the Bahamas. In Gabon, we have many small scale fishing canoes that transport illegal bush meat such as pangolin and shark fin. Especially, with COVID the trafficking is increasing as people are becoming more despair to feed their families and cover their basic expenses. I append an article from NBC that discussing a new app that we developed in 2020 called O-Fish (Officer's Fisheries Information Sharing Hub). It is free and we invite MPA managers and agencies to try it.
Intro to Embedded Machine Learning on Coursera
9 February 2021 12:00am
How do I strategically allocate drones for conservation?
8 February 2021 12:00am
Funding Opportunities: Panthera Grants and Fellowships
8 February 2021 12:00am
Rogue Detection Dogs Webinar - Free
7 February 2021 5:25pm
Tech Tutors: How do How do I launch machine learning projects using MLOps?
3 February 2021 12:08pm
5 February 2021 7:16pm
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?
WildLogger Add-On Board Requests
4 February 2021 2:10pm
5 February 2021 6:28am
Hi Akiba,
Yes, the TSL2591 has an interrupt pin and there are also a couple of example applications in the Adafruit and TSL2591MI libraries. I am doing tests making the connections with Dupont cables in the I2C connector of the Wildlogger, and for the interruption I will use the corresponding pin of the PIR connector
The connections do not concern me since, once the prototype has been tested and defined, my idea would be to make the maximum of welded connections to avoid failures
I'm still in the design phase, I already have the hardware quite defined, and now I have to enter with the most difficult part, the software, which for me is where I have the most difficulty
I have been gathering the elements to prepare the cake, and now is the time to enter the kitchen, I will not deny that I am excited and terrified at the same time
I'm already telling you ...
Regards !
5 February 2021 9:05am
Hi JAL.
Excellent! I'm glad you've already started on it and Dupont wires should be no problem. Let us know how it goes and if you have software issues, feel free to post them in this forum. Good luck and please take pictures of the modified Wildlogger and also the deployment. It sounds like an amazing application!
Akiba
5 February 2021 12:35pm
I appreciate your encouragement !
Don't hesitate that I will keep you informed of the progress that I am making
Happy weekend !
Seeking interviewees - AI in Conservation & nonprofits
9 December 2020 6:20am
16 January 2021 7:13am
Hi @Alex.L , I would suggest the same as for @mattzig at https://www.wildlabs.net/community/thread/1046#post-4348 :
I could try to connect you with some of the people and orgs we have worked with. If you go through https://www.vizzuality.com/project/ and identify the projects you would like to be look into, I can then try to connect you with the best person for each project.
And I would be very interested in learning more about your research group's work, besides your current research question, if possible!
Happy New Year! Luisa
28 January 2021 6:40am
HI Luisa,
Thank you so much for your help! I will definitely take a look at your organisation project list. I will be messaging you directly shortly. I would be glad to discuss my research group if it interest you.
Best,
Alex
4 February 2021 3:48pm
Hi Alex, that sounds great! Feel free to email me at [email protected], that may be simpler.
Carly's video blog journey
22 January 2021 9:50pm
23 January 2021 6:16am
Hi Carly.
The videos are wonderful! They're hilarious and also let me know areas we can improve on :)
Akiba
4 February 2021 2:42pm
Round 2 vlog video is up!
Module 3.3: Measuring Battery Status
21 January 2021 11:54am
4 February 2021 5:00am
Hi JAL.
I'm glad you're enjoying the WildLogger! What you're doing fits exactly the purpose of this course. It's demystifying the art of customizing research equipment. For the WildLogger, if you will be using it to collect scientific grade data, I recommend to upgrade the board to use an external analog reference. There's already a footprint and we will add that to the shop this week. It's a cheap part but will stabilize the ADC reference vs temperature and also has 0.1% accuracy so that you will get more accurate ADC readings across temperature. I think we're targeting $1 for that part so it's a cheap upgrade. Currently the power supply is used as the ADC reference to keep costs down which is accurate to around +/-1.5%.
In regards to the power supply and power requirements, the battery input needs to have a voltage of between 3.6V and 5.0V. A single cell lithium-ion or lithium-ion-polymer battery would be fine at a nominal voltage of 3.6V and full voltage of 4.2V.
in sleep mode with an average SD card that implements power savings modes (like SanDisk), it consumes around 0.8 mA. If you're calculating battery life, you can use that as a theoretical maximum battery life, ie: if you use a 2000 mAHr battery, you would get 2500 hour battery life or ~100 days max. We usually divide by 2 or 3 to get a realistic battery life.
We'll also be making some bonus sensors and training materials specifically for the WildLogger so people can extend it to different applications. We'll announce that soon, likely once we're caught up on the video creation. Also do let us know if you have requests for sensors, displays, etc.
Hope that helps and let me know if you have any other questions.
Akiba
4 February 2021 6:34am
Hi Akiba,
Oh, your answer is great!
My idea is to build a DL that allows,
- Light registration, with time stamp, when it exceeds a certain threshold (To control the human presence in the cave) The card only has to record when this threshold is exceeded to save energy
- Periodic record of temperature and humidity
- Data recording on SD
- Autonomy of at least 4 months
I have tried some sensors and I think I will use the TSL2591 because it has a very low detection threshold (0.18 uLux) and has an interrupt pin. I've already been testing some sample libraries, and I think it would be ideal
For temperature and humidity I am hesitating between using the DHT11 or the BME280
Perfect the external reference of the ADC if it serves to have more accurate readings
My idea is to use a power bank with 3 or 4 18650 Lipo batteries and built-in BCP, and to be able to disconnect the device when it detects that the power supply is less than 3.2V
Is the Sandisk card you mention a normal one, or of an industrial type like the one you presented in the corresponding module?
My best wishes,
4 February 2021 1:13pm
Oh that sounds like a fascinating application. I've actually just started a thread for Wildlogger add-on board requests. The TSL25911 sounds do-able and also it looks like one useful thing would be to put together some adapter cables to other popular modular systems like the Adafruit Stemma and Seeed Grove. Let's discuss this in the other thread.
Module 3.2b Command Temp and Humidity
3 February 2021 5:34am
3 February 2021 6:44am
Hey,
In the cmdTemperature and cmdHumidity functions, there's full stops between void and cmdTemperature and cmdHumidity. Can you try removing them and see if that works?
Cheers
Jacinta
3 February 2021 10:18am
Omg thank you. Just flew over my head
4 February 2021 12:21am
No probs. We've all been there (and will be there again)!
Glad it's working
cheers
Jacinta
Poison Detection Dogs for Wolf Conservation
3 February 2021 12:47pm
3 February 2021 5:51pm
I have seen posts on social media about poison detection dogs and I THINK I am connected to one of the teams. I will check.
Paul
Documentary Series : scientific and technologic innovations to protect endangered animal species around the world
3 February 2021 5:11pm
Research paper: Training and olfactory generalization in conservation detection dogs for an endangered stonefly species
2 February 2021 4:20pm
Module 3.4: Real Time Clock
21 January 2021 12:28pm
2 February 2021 2:30am
Hi JAL.
For Module 3.4 - Lab 4a, the time will be hard coded into the sketch and then it will just print that time out. It's just to demonstrate how you would set it and how you would print it out. Every time you reset the board, the same time is reprogrammed into the real time clock so it will never advance.
Where you will see the actual real time clock behavior is in Module 3.4 - Lab 4b where you set the clock from the command line and can read it from the command line. Since it won't be hard coded but rather set at run-time, and then independently read out, you should see the clock advance. Also you should only need to set the clock once as long as the backup battery holds up (should be good for a few months to years).
Please try lab 4b and check if the clock can advance. You should see the seconds incrementing at least.
Akiba
2 February 2021 11:57am
Hi Akiba!
Now it's okay, and the clock is ticking!
Now I understand the errors I made, I had used the example of the Rtc_Pcf8563 "Setclock" library that contains in the Setup an "rtc.initclock" statement, with which every time you restart the program the clock starts counting from the starting point of departure.
Your first example did not set the clock either, and it only served to enter a time and print it later.
I had also tried to use the Rtc by Makuna library to automatically synchronize the time of the PC with that of the RTC, but I got a time loss error, as if, for some reason, the RTC did not retain the time. It is true that this library is designed for other RTC models of the DS **** series, and surely the error comes for that reason
Do you know if there is a library to fulfill this function with your RTC?
Thank you !!
2 February 2021 3:33pm
You'll need to write a software application that would communicate from the PC to the board via serial. Within that software application, you could send the time and date to the Wildlogger application, ie: through the command line interface. This would automate the synchronization.
Akiba
Using AIS Data to Investigate the World’s Fishing Ports
2 February 2021 12:00am
How do I get started with LoRa? Connectivity in conservation
1 February 2021 12:00am
Career Paths and Conservation Games with Diogo Veríssimo
1 February 2021 12:00am
1 February 2021 11:41am
We've had our eye on this too. Glad you can confirm its a good experience. I'll definitely give it a go.