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Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range site, station Rodent trapping web in grassland vegetation zone, study of animal abundance of Neotoma micropus in units of numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range (JRN) contains animal abundance of Neotoma micropus measurements in numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

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Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range site, station Rodent trapping web in grassland vegetation zone, study of animal abundance of Onychomys arenicola in units of numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range (JRN) contains animal abundance of Onychomys arenicola measurements in numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

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Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range site, station Rodent trapping web in grassland vegetation zone, study of animal abundance of Onychomys leucogaster in units of numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range (JRN) contains animal abundance of Onychomys leucogaster measurements in numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

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Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range site, station Rodent trapping web in grassland vegetation zone, study of animal abundance of Chaetodipus penicillatus in units of numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters (Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest) to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets. The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project, including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service, US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal (http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application. Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Jornada Basin LTER/Jornada Experimental Range (JRN) contains animal abundance of Chaetodipus penicillatus measurements in numberPer3pt14HectareTrappingWeb units and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

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A systematic review of global road ecology camera trap studies that monitored animals' use of wildlife crossings in road-fragmented landscapes

<p>Much research has emphasised the importance of incorporating wildlife crossing-structures in the design of road networks to facilitate connectivity of wildlife crossings in road-fragmented landscapes. Although camera traps have been effective in monitoring wildlife crossing structures, limited studies explore camera trap protocol to monitor wildlife use of crossing structures, particularly in Africa. Our study reviewed and assessed camera trap peer-reviewed research that monitored the use of crossing-structures by wildlife to navigate landscapes fragmented by roads. We found 70 camera trap peer-reviewed publications from 2001 to 2022 that monitored wildlife use of crossing-structures in landscapes intersected by roads, and these were from 22 countries and six continents. The included peer-reviewed studies varied significantly globally, with geographical trends indicating that most studies were conducted in North America. However, the methods used varied considerably between studies, especially in terms of camera trap placement protocol (placement height of camera trap, survey length, and camera multi-shot settings). This showed that camera trap usage for monitoring animal use of crossing structures is still an emerging area of research, and there is a potential for developing a standardised protocol for each type of crossing structure design and size. Future camera trap studies exploring wildlife use of crossing-structures should consider monitoring existing crossing structures (culverts, bridges, and tunnels) as this provides a less costly method of restoring landscape connectivity. We recommend that further research develop a standardised camera trap protocol for monitoring wildlife using crossing-structures to reduce the threats to biodiversity.</p>

opencc-zeroMar 2024View details →
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WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models

<p>#############</p> <h1>WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models</h1> <p>#############</p> <p>Authors: Valentin Gabeff, Marc Russwurm, Devis Tuia &amp; Alexander Mathis</p> <p>Affiliation: EPFL</p> <p>Date: January, 2024</p> <p>Link to the article: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-024-02026-6">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-024-02026-6</a></p> <p>--------------------------------</p> <p>WildCLIP is a fine-tuned CLIP model that allows to retrieve camera-trap events with natural language from the Snapshot Serengeti dataset. This project intends to demonstrate how vision-language models may assist the annotation process of camera-trap datasets.</p> <p>Here we provide the processed Snapshot Serengeti data used to train and evaluate WildCLIP, along with two versions of WildCLIP (model weights).</p> <p>Details on how to run these models can be found in the project <a href="https://github.com/amathislab/wildclip">github repository</a>.</p> <h2>Provided data (images and attribute annotations):&nbsp;</h2> <p>The data consists of 380 x 380 image crops corresponding to the MegaDetector output of Snapshot Serengeti with a confidence threshold above 0.7. We considered only camera trap images containing single individuals.</p> <p>A description of the original data can be found on LILA <a href="https://lila.science/datasets/snapshot-serengeti">here</a>, released under the <a href="https://cdla.dev/permissive-1-0/" rel="nofollow">Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant)</a>.</p> <p>We warmly thank the authors of LILA for making the MegaDetector outputs publicly available, as well as for structuring the dataset and facilitating its access.</p> <h2>Adapted CLIP model (model weights):&nbsp;</h2> <p>WildCLIP models provided:</p> <ul> <li><strong>[New] WildCLIP_vitb16_t1.pth:&nbsp;</strong>CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1. Trained on both base and novel vocabulary (see paper for details).</li> <li><strong>[New] WildCLIP_vitb16_t1_lwf.pth:&nbsp;</strong>CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1, and with the additional VR-LwF loss. Trained on both base and novel vocabulary (see paper for details).</li> <li><strong>WildCLIP_vitb16_t1_base.pth:</strong> CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1. Model used for evaluation and trained on base vocabulary only. (previously named <em>WildCLIP_vitb16_t1.pth</em>)</li> <li><strong>WildCLIP_vitb16_t1t7_lwf_base.pth</strong>: CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following templates 1 to 7, and with the additional VR-LwF loss. Model used for evaluation and trained on base vocabulary only.&nbsp;(previously named <em>WildCLIP_vitb16_t1t7_lwf.pth</em>)</li> </ul> <p>We also provide the CSV files containing the train / val / test splits. The train / test splits follow camera split from LILA (https://lila.science/datasets/snapshot-serengeti). The validation split is custom, and also at the camera level.</p> <ul> <li><strong>train_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T7_ID.csv</strong>: Train set with captions from templates 1 through 7 (column "all captions") or template 1 only (column "template 1")</li> <li><strong>val_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T7_ID.csv</strong>: Validation set with captions from templates 1 through 7 (column "all captions") or template 1 only (column "template 1")</li> <li><strong>test_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T8T10.csv</strong>: Test set with captions from templates 1, 8, 9 and 10 (columns "all captions")</li> </ul> <p>Details on how the models were trained can be found in the associated&nbsp;<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-024-02026-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publication</a>.</p> <h2>References:&nbsp;</h2> <p>If you find our code, or weights, please cite:</p> <pre>@article{gabeff2024wildclip, title={WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models}, author={Gabeff, Valentin and Ru{\ss}wurm, Marc and Tuia, Devis and Mathis, Alexander}, journal={International Journal of Computer Vision}, pages={1--17}, year={2024}, publisher={Springer} }</pre> <p>If you use the adapted Snapshot Serengeti data please also cite their article:</p> <pre>@article{swanson2015snapshot, title={Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna}, author={Swanson, Alexandra and Kosmala, Margaret and Lintott, Chris and Simpson, Robert and Smith, Arfon and Packer, Craig}, journal={Scientific data}, volume={2}, number={1}, pages={1--14}, year={2015}, publisher={Nature Publishing Group} }</pre>

opencdla-permissive-1.0Dec 2023View details →
dryad32/100

Automated location invariant animal detection in camera trap images using publicly available data sources

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publicFeb 2021View details →
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Data from: Estimating animal density without individual recognition using information derivable exclusively from camera traps

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publicNov 2018View details →
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A systematic review of global road ecology camera trap studies that monitored animals’ use of wildlife crossings in road-fragmented landscapes

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publicMar 2024View details →
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Data from: Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: applications in ecology

Motion‐activated cameras ("camera traps") are increasingly used in ecological and management studies for remotely observing wildlife and are amongst the most powerful tools for wildlife research. However, studies involving camera traps result in millions of images that need to be analysed, typically by visually observing each image, in order to extract data that can be used in ecological analyses. We trained machine learning models using convolutional neural networks with the ResNet‐18 architecture and 3,367,383 images to automatically classify wildlife species from camera trap images obtained from five states across the United States. We tested our model on an independent subset of images not seen during training from the United States and on an out‐of‐sample (or "out‐of‐distribution" in the machine learning literature) dataset of ungulate images from Canada. We also tested the ability of our model to distinguish empty images from those with animals in another out‐of‐sample dataset from Tanzania, containing a faunal community that was novel to the model. The trained model classified approximately 2,000 images per minute on a laptop computer with 16 gigabytes of RAM. The trained model achieved 98% accuracy at identifying species in the United States, the highest accuracy of such a model to date. Out‐of‐sample validation from Canada achieved 82% accuracy and correctly identified 94% of images containing an animal in the dataset from Tanzania. We provide an r package (Machine Learning for Wildlife Image Classification) that allows the users to (a) use the trained model presented here and (b) train their own model using classified images of wildlife from their studies. The use of machine learning to rapidly and accurately classify wildlife in camera trap images can facilitate non‐invasive sampling designs in ecological studies by reducing the burden of manually analysing images. Our r package makes these methods accessible to ecologists.

opencc-zeroDec 2018View details →
zenodo24/100

Dataset animal-vs-empty collected by camera trap prototype for research purposes

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opencc-by-4.0Dec 2023View details →
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Data from: Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: applications in ecology

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publicJan 2019View details →

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