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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Nature is in crisis. Together we can save it. Come and join one of the largest technology functions in Europe, whose sole purpose is to save nature.
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The Senior Conservation Technology Specialist will be responsible for providing technical advice and capacity development to GWP project teams on conservation technology, distilling challenges and lessons from project...
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Bird Sounds Global (BSG) launched a web portal for annotating bird sounds. Annotating means identifying the species vocalising in the recording. The aim is to produce training and testing material for automated bird...
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| Dear Wildlabs community, my name is Nikolas and I am a Master's Student from Lisbon. Like many of you, I grew up with a great passion... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools , Drones, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 6 days 19 hours ago | |
| Full article here: Lauha, P., Somervuo, P., Lehikoinen, P., Geres, L., Richter, T., Seibold, S., & Ovaskainen, O. (2022).... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 weeks 1 day ago | |
| Fab - thanks Carly! |
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Software and Mobile Apps | 1 month ago | |
| 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... |
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Citizen Science, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 month 1 week ago | |
| 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... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools , Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 month 1 week ago | |
| Thanks so much!! |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools , Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 months ago | |
| 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: ... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools , Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 months 1 week ago | |
| Thank you for the response! I'm not sure how to find that out. It says MP4. Is that what you're looking for? |
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| Hi everyone, I'm new here! I'm a UX designer and researcher, and an animal lover. Excited to be part of Conservation Tech here at WildLabs... |
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| @gracieermi & I are happy to announce the latest update to the Conservation Tech Directory, bringing our total resources in the... |
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| Hi all, I'm looking for cities that aggregate envrironmental data from open sources, and potentially their own monitoring sources,... |
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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... |
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New article: Domain-specific neural networks improve automated bird sound recognition already with small amount of local data
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Augmented Reality mobile app
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27 October 2022 2:51pm
Fab - thanks Carly!
Data upload solution for a citizen science project?
21 September 2022 8:55pm
18 October 2022 3:48am
Good luck! I am curious if you will get it working!
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.
Software to aid acoustic sound files visualization/labelling + Software to syncronize video/acoustic sonograms
23 September 2022 1:01pm
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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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.
30 August 2022 10:10pm
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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22 September 2022 5:35pm
Otter video help!
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Hi Britnee!
Thanks for posting your question. What format is your video currently in? I might be able to help you convert it so it can be shared here.
7 September 2022 6:12pm
Thank you for the response! I'm not sure how to find that out. It says MP4. Is that what you're looking for?
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Do you want automated identification models made from your bird bioacoustics data?
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Lead Software Engineer, Wildlife Insights
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Building a simple AI-powered, human-in-the-loop system to manage wildlife camera trap images & annotations
10 August 2022 8:12pm
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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Firetail - Tutorial Series 22.3 - An introduction to Firetail - Update 2022
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Glad to announce I just replaced the Firetail introductory tutorial with a 2022 revision centered around Firetail 9:
- general concepts
- Movebank data handling
- Map Viewport
- Studies handling
- Annotation overview
- AI-based segmentation overview (FireSOM)
and quite a bit more to get you an idea what is possible with the new version.
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Consultancy: Development and Implementation of SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) for São Tomé and Príncipe
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Hello there
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25 October 2022 9:22pm
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.