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 | 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 | Sep 25, 2018 | Camera trapping, Human Wildlife Conflict, Thoughts and comment
Our last blog post left you with preliminary test results of thermopile and microbolometer thermal sensors to be used in an early animal warning system. Funded by WWF and WILDLABS, this Arribada Initiative project aims help reduce human-wildlife conflict by creating...
