by Anne Dangerfield | Dec 16, 2021 | Camera trapping, Thoughts and comment
How it started The Arribada Initiative strives to make conservation technology open, affordable, and accessible to all who need them. Combining clever design and low-cost off-the-shelf parts, we have delivered plastic waste trackers, animal biologgers, acoustic...
by Anne Dangerfield | Feb 17, 2020 | Camera trapping, Human Wildlife Conflict, Thoughts and comment, Uncategorised
Our idea for an alert system combines low-cost thermal sensors, machine learning and wireless transmission to build an affordable system that alerts communities to the presence of elephants, providing a chance to safely act before a human-elephant conflict (HEC)...
by Anne Dangerfield | Mar 11, 2019 | Camera trapping, Thoughts and comment
A few months ago, I went tree climbing to become a certified tree climber, advancing Arribada’s goal to improve the design and installation of arboreal technology and provide project design and field installation assistance to our partners. The first step toward this...
by Anne Dangerfield | Jan 10, 2019 | Camera trapping, Human Wildlife Conflict, Thoughts and comment
Arribada recently returned from field sites in Assam, India where we tested the image quality and detection abilities of low-cost thermal sensors for detecting elephants in conflict areas. Arribada is working on these thermal cameras as a winner of the WWF and...
by Anne Dangerfield | Dec 10, 2018 | Camera trapping, Human Wildlife Conflict, Thoughts and comment
Arribada just returned from our first thermal camera field trials in Greenland, where we tested the image quality and detection abilities of our chosen thermal sensors in an arctic climate, our prototype camera design and looked at real installation conditions and...
