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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. If you are excited by the ways in which GIS is used in conservation, this is the group for you!

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Conservation and Technology Conference

Bat Conservation Trust

29 July 2019 12:00am

The Bat Conservation Trust is hosting a one-day conference exploring conservation and technology for all wildlife (not just bats!) at the University of Nottingham this fall. The conference will bring together wildlife...

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Conservation remote sensing webinar series

Thomas Starnes

5 October 2018 7:40am

The Conservation Biology Institute is hosting a series of Conservation Remote sensing webinars with the Society for Conservation GIS. This is quite the lineup, so I recommend you...

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WILDLABS TECH HUB Showcase

WILDLABS Team

17 May 2019 12:00am

Join us at the Tech Hub Showcase event ot hear how our winners are using technology to scale their solutions to the illegal wildlife trade. The event will take place at Digital Catapult, 101 Euston Road, London, on the...

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Meet the WILDLABS TECH HUB Winners

WILDLABS Team

13 May 2019 12:00am

In February, we released an open call for the WILDLABS TECH HUB, offering 3 months of support for solutions using technolgy to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. We were overwhelmed by an incredible 37 submissions,...

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FOSS4G 2019

Thomas Starnes

12 April 2019 9:36am

Hi GIS-ers, This is a notification that the FOSS4G 2019 conference call for talks and workshops deadline is this coming Monday 15th April. This year's conference is taking...

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Eye on Earth Symposium Online: All 36 sessions will be webcast globally

Lot Amorós

5 October 2018 10:36am

Hi all, Just to share that this symposium will be available online and most of the sessions are very interesting to willdlabs community. You can check the program here:...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

18 February 2019 10:37am

Following the successful Eye on Earth Symposium at the end of October, the team has announced that video recordings of all 35 sessions are now available.

They've also shared a recording of the Global Environmental Education Partnership webinar: http://bit.ly/EoeWebinars 

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Sumatran Forest Type Maps and Data

Courtney Dunn

9 January 2019 5:43pm

Anyone know of any good databases or sites to find forest cover maps for Indonesia? I know that is highly specific but, I am looking for maps that show forest type for a...

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GIS Day 2018

Thomas Starnes

14 November 2018 7:48pm

Today is GIS Day. Today we turned our department foyer into a map gallery to celebrate. The conservation work of the RSPB is reliant on the application of up to date, accurate...

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Invitation to Contribute to the ISPRS SC Newsletter

Sheryl Rose Reyes

28 August 2018 3:12pm

Hi everyone, I am Sheryl Rose Reyes, Chair of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium (ISPRS SC, sc.isprs.org). The ISPRS SC...

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Thomas Starnes

13 September 2018 3:24pm

Hi Sheryl,

This sounds great, thank you for sharing! As you may be aware, we had the UK National Earth Observation Conference 2018 here in the UK just last week (and you can see the abstracts here).

I'll share your call for submissions with colleagues in the Cambridge conservation community, noting your September 21st deadline.

Best wishes,

Thom

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Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge

NASA Tournament Lab

14 September 2018 12:00am

NASA and The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have launched the Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge, seeking your ideas for how to use emerging SmallSat/CubeSat technology along with other Space,...

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Is anyone using off-the-shelf GIS data collection apps? e.g. Collector for ArcGIS

Steve Pritchard

8 March 2018 5:11pm

The BTO has made some use of phone/tablet apps like AlpineQuest. Esri has showed us Collector for ArcGIS and we're trying it out. Is anyone else using Collector,...

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Aurélie Shapiro

14 March 2018 11:28pm

So Collector is really for editing data, or adding GIS info in the field in a map interface. Works offline. It's ok for that purpose, you can take your entire map, basemap offline to the field, you can see what data has been collected in real-time, but can be buggy and if you accidentelly log out you're completely out of luck with no connection.

I use it to track drone flights - i.e. I flew here, with some notes.

Survey123 is ESRI's solution for ODK or form based surveys. I like it a lot, it's flexible, you don't need people to log in and it just looks better than ODK and works on iOS, and doesn't require the annoying server set-up of ODK and has great offline capability. But it's form-based, you don't really see the data you are editing in a map. But the best part are the analysis features where you can see stats on responses and such.

Let me know if you have more questions, we have used survey123 extensively, also in places where people have limited cell network, and limited knowledge of smartphones.

Stephanie O'Donnell

28 March 2018 12:40pm

Hi Steve, 

Over on Twitter, @RLong has a suggestion that might be useful? 

Dave Moskowitz https://t.co/ZJhAPTgzyx has developed some @ESRI Collector workflows for his work with @ConservationNW. You might get in touch with one of them for advice.

— Robert Long (@RLongEco) March 28, 2018

James Bevan also has some feedback: 

I’ve used iGIS quite a bit to map points, lines and polygons. Created shapefiles can be emailed or stored in Dropbox and transferred to ArcGIS. The paid version also can calculate area and distance. Cons: somewhat fiddly to use.

— James Bevan (@JamesRBevan) April 9, 2018

Cheers

Steph

Sarah Graves

24 August 2018 5:18pm

Hi Steve,

I have used GIS Pro by Garafa on an iPad. I found it was one of the only apps that allowed importing of custom raster images. This feature has allowed me to take an image into the field, and ditize on it directly. I am mapping individual trees in airborne remote sensing data, so accurate digitizatoin with reference to my specific image is a must.

Other useful features are that you can create and edit vectors (points, lines, and polygons) and you cache basemaps (Google, Bing...) to work offline.

Happy to talk more about my application and experience with this app.

- Sarah

 

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Spacewalk for ICARUS

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

24 August 2018 12:00am

This past week was an exciting milestone for animal tracking, with the ICARUS (International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space) Initiative's antenna successfully installed on the International Space Station. ...

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Ocean Hack: San Francisco, 10-11th September, 2018

One Ocean Collab

20 August 2018 12:00am

A 48 hr pop up innovation lab for the ocean, bringing together a mix of designers, strategists, technologists, engineers, scientists, marine conservationists, educators, artists and buisness talent to co-create...

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$90K in grants from the Con X Tech Prize

WILDLABS Admin

11 June 2018 12:00am

Looking to prototype or pilot a new conservation tech idea or approach? Conservation X Labs is running an idea competition for teams to create a first draft (i.e. prototype) of their conservation solution. 20 finalists...

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#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge 2018: Our Top 10

WILDLABS Team

3 March 2018 12:00am

Hundreds of people joined our #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge this year, showcasing all the incredible ways tech is being used to support wildlife conservation. We've seen proximity loggers on Tasmanian Devils in...

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Technology Empowered Conservation Lecture Series

Paul Jepson

18 January 2018 12:00am

New technological forces look set to transform biodiversity science. This series will showcase and discuss cutting-edge applications happening in Oxford and beyond. It is guaranteed to inspire and challenge. 

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