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The software and apps used and built by the conservation tech community are as varied as the species and habitats we work to protect. From fighting wildlife crime to collecting and analyzing data to engaging the general public with unique storytelling, apps, software, and mobile games are playing an increasingly large role in our work. Whether you're already well-versed in the world of software, or you're a hardware expert looking for guidance from the other side of the conservation tech field, this group will have interesting discussions, resources, and ideas to offer.

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Get To Know FIT

WILDLABS Team

6 May 2020 12:00am

We're excited to welcome the WildTrack FIT group to our community! Today, we'd like to introduce you to the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT) and share how you can incorporate this tracking method into your field...

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Era of the Condor: A Species' Future in Recovery

Ellie Warren

5 May 2020 12:00am

In this three-part WILDLABS feature article, we'll take a look at the various technologies used to fight the greatest threat to endangered condors, explore the innovations that may change the way we study and understand...

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Competition: iWildCam 2020

CVPR

4 May 2020 12:00am

Want to compete in the iWildCam 2020 competition identifying species in camera trap images to support biodiversity monitoring efforts and automatic species classification model improvements? Because the Workshop on Fine...

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Call for Submissions – Arm Research Summit 2020

Arm

24 April 2020 12:00am

The 2020 Arm Research Summit is accepting submissions from all research disciplines focusing on the role of technology in solving global challenges. Submissions should reflect the potential of sustainable, secure, and...

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WILDLABS Tech Hub: WWF PandaSat

WILDLABS Team

13 April 2020 12:00am

At the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, we announced the WILDLABS Tech Hub, an accelerator programme created to support the development and scaling of groundbreaking technological solutions addressing the ...

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Webinar: Citizen Science Online

SciStarter

26 March 2020 12:00am

Join WILDLABS community member Dr. Meredith Palmer from Snapshot Safari and other researchers from various disciplines in SciStarter's webinar, Citizen Science Online! Speakers will celebrate this April's Citizen...

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WILDLABS Tech Hub: Poreprint

WILDLABS Team

26 March 2020 12:00am

At the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, we announced the WILDLABS Tech Hub, an accelerator program created to support the development and scaling of groundbreaking technological solutions addressing the ...

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Enter the Zooniverse: Try Citizen Science for Yourself!

Ellie Warren

18 March 2020 12:00am

Trapped inside during the COVID-19 quarantine and looking to engage with conservation science without leaving your desk? Citizen science projects like those on Zooniverse offer a great opportunity to impact scientific...

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#Tech4Wildlife 2020 Photo Challenge In Review

WILDLABS Team

4 March 2020 12:00am

2020 marked our fifth year holding our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge, and our community made it a milestone to remember. Conservationists took to Twitter last week to share their best high-tech snapshots from...

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Competition: Plastic Data Challenge

The Incubation Network

3 March 2020 12:00am

Are you ready for the Plastic Data Challenge? This global contest wants your innovative ideas for improving the plastic waste management and recycling chain in South and Southeast Asia. Participants can consider...

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Hawai'i Conservation Conference

Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance

28 February 2020 12:00am

The Hawai'i Conservation Conference is accepting abstracts in several categories, including emerging technological advances in the conservation field. This is an exciting opportunity to present your latest research to...

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Competition: The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge

Conservation X Labs

26 February 2020 12:00am

Conservation X Labs welcomes you to enter the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge, a competition aimed at finding new and innovative solutions to the environmental problems caused by mining operations. This competition...

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Fence-Based Elephant Early Warning System

Appiko

25 February 2020 12:00am

Technology is rapidly changing the way communities monitor wildlife movement and prevent or mitigate human-wildlife conflict. This case study from Appiko delves into field testing of the open source sensor warning...

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Animove Summer School 2020

AniMove

13 February 2020 12:00am

Animal Movement Analysis summer school is offered as a two-week professional training course, that targets students, researchers and conservation practitioners that are interested to work or even have already collected...

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Recording: Acoustic Monitoring

WILDLABS Team

5 February 2020 12:00am

The fourth and final event in Season 3 of the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series is now available to watch, along with notes that highlight key takeaways from the talks and discussion. In the meetup, speakers David Watson, ...

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OpenSource Drag and Drop Windows 10 software builder

Kasim21

27 August 2019 9:32pm

Hi all, I recently published research showing photographs + gps tracks from tourists on safari can be used to give density estimates comparable to other commonly used...

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Kasim21

30 August 2019 10:48am

Hi Ricardo, 

Thanks for taking the time to respond.  I'll look into the electronjs.org option and see if I can get VS through the uni. 

If you come across any other drag-and-drop style platforms (preferably free) that you can use to build windows 10 software, it would be great if you can pop me a message on this.  Something like what you get when building a website through Wordpress or Wix would be perfect.

Cheers again!

Alan Stenhouse

20 January 2020 3:46am

Hi Kas

LiveCode is open source (www.livecode.org) and can build for multiple platforms - Windows, MacOS, Linux + mobiles. Might be worth having a look at - it has an english-like scripting language and drag + drop GUI builder. You can develop on multiple platforms too so not limited to Windows.

You're probably already finished, but maybe someone else will find it useful.

Kasim21

2 February 2020 10:19am

Hi Alan, 

Thanks for the suggestion.

I ended up using Visual Studio but will take a look at LiveCode for future work - sounds very cool.

Thanks, 

Kas

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Software Camera Traps

Jorge Valenzuela

25 November 2019 12:52pm

Hi  I found information about this software  A new software for camera trap analysis https://www.zsl.org/zsl-camera-trap-data-management-and-analysis-package...

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Very easy to use online form to collect sea turtle data

kierancamb

9 July 2019 11:45am

I am trying to develop an online data collection system for sea turtle sighting data in Cambodia. This includes picture upload, name, date, location, species, information on tags...

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Filip Hnízdo

27 August 2019 10:35am

Hi @kierancamb 

A colleague of mine let me know about this thread as it's very similar to lots of things we've built (Angel Shark sightings map, Thames Marine Mammal sightings map for example). Thinking about it more this could be a simple online free and open source tool.

It could use a JSON schema compiled form made through an interface much like: https://jsonform.github.io/jsonform/playground/index.html?example=schema-morecomplex

And take a parameter for an email address to send the results to.

You could then save the form schema and the email address in a bookmarkable URL and it could just let people fill the form out and send the results on. Annoyingly URLS have a 2000 character limit but we could take a parameter of a configuration file stored elsewhere (Office Online, Google Docs, PasteBin, GitHub) that way the form would be editable by who created it too.

If anyone has any ideas on this or could also use something like it I'd happily start an open source GitHub project and build the basics.

Have been thinking about doing this for a while.

Fabien Dutasta

27 August 2019 1:35pm

Hi Kieran and all,

I jump into the topic as I am doing research on data collection through mobile application in conservation. (I currently have a test in Cambodia in the education sector with a mobile app and the possibility for the ngo to push questions through notifications on the user's smartphone).

Kieran could you tell me what are the main problem of downloading an app for your users ? it seems it is a general concern, any idea why ?

i really believe in a system where people providing data should be incentivised for it so the data becomes of higher value and of higher quality.

Fabien

 

wykhuh

20 November 2019 8:00pm

I'm part of a citizen science  biodiversity project and we ask our citizen scientists to use Kobo Toolbox's webforms to collect field data using a smart phone.  Kobo was started by Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and gets funding from various organizations including branches of the United Nations.  https://www.kobotoolbox.org

KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.

Project leaders design a webform and send people a link to the form. People load the  form in a browser when they have internet connection, then go into the field and fill out the form. The forms work both online and offline. If the users fill out the form when there is no internet  connection, the next time the users open the form when there is internet connection, the data is synced to the Kobo servers. 

Kobo has an admin interface where project leaders can view, edit, and download the data. Project leaders can use condtional logic when designing the questions on the  webform (if user answers yes, show question A; if users answers no, show question B).

 

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