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Progress report – February 2020 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict

Progress report – February 2020 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict

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)...

Progress report – January 2019 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict

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...

Progress report – September 2018 – Thermal imaging for human-wildlife conflict

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...