by Alasdair | Dec 8, 2019 | Biologging & GPS Tracking, Thoughts and comment
Why isn’t there an Arduino style platform for biologging and satellite telemetry? It’s a question that the Arribada Initiative has been working to address for the past 3 years, and today at the World Marine Mammal Conference in Barcelona, we were delighted...
by Alasdair | Oct 31, 2019 | Thoughts and comment, Uncategorised
I’m a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. In around 5 months time I’ll transition to Alumni, as a Fellowship has a limit of 3 years. On the first day of my Fellowship I wrote a piece about the road ahead. Reading it back this morning, it reminded me of those...
by Alasdair | Apr 1, 2018 | Camera trapping, Thoughts and comment
The power of 1 hour of solar energy reaching our planet is equivalent to our current annual global energy consumption. Nature knows this – virtually all life depends on photosynthesis in the food chain. Photosynthesis is the process through which plants use...
by Alasdair | Dec 28, 2017 | Thoughts and comment
It’s $50, the size of a credit card, and can record uncompressed audio at 384,000 samples per second. The AudioMoth, designed and developed by the Open Acoustic Devices team, offers researchers and acousticians access to high quality recording at an entry level price...
by Alasdair | Mar 7, 2017 | Thoughts and comment
I was delighted to discover Tim Everett’s blog documenting the use of RTKLIB and uBlox GPS receivers. RTKLIB is an open source program that can be used to interpret raw GNSS GPS data, for example, to work out GPS positions from a batch of raw measurements at a...
