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| Resource Type | Resource Name | Description of Resource | Link to Resource | Developer / Creator / Lead | City / State | Country | Tags / Keywords |
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| Academia | ACCURATE project | ACoustic CUe RATEs; aims to deliver comprehensive, quantitative synthesis of current state of knowledge on acoustic cue rates & cue stability for marine mammal density estimation from passive acoustics | https://accurate.st-andrews.ac.uk/ | Tiago Marques, University of St Andrews | St Andrews | Scotland | bioacoustics data analysis/viz marine/aquatic |
| Academia | Artportalen | citizen science portal for Swedish flora & fauna observations/identifications | https://www.artportalen.se/ | Swedish Agricultural University (SLU) | citizen science education images software video |
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| Academia | Atriya Sen's Lab | research includes AI for taxonomic analysis & mapping, AI for sustainability & bioinformatics | https://www.uno.edu/profile/faculty/atriya_sen | Atriya Sen, University of New Orleans | New Orleans, Louisiana | USA | academic lab AI/ML education |
| Academia | Beery Lab (MIT) | impact-driven computer vision (CV) research for the environment, biodiversity, conservation, and sustainability; building CV methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities | https://beerys.github.io/#research_group | Sara Beery | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | academic lab AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz data management geospatial images software |
| Academia | Belongie Lab | research in Computer Vision & Machine Learning, exploring problem areas including fine-grained analysis of multimodal data, self-supervised learning, 2D/3D generative models & augmented reality | https://www.belongielab.org/ | Serge Belongie, University of Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Denmark | academic lab AI/ML education images video |
| Academia | Benno Simmons's Lab | research includes AI for bioacoustics, camera traps, remote sensing & ecological network analysis, especially as distributions shift under climate change | https://www.bennosimmons.com/ | Benno Simmons, University of Exeter | Exeter, England | UK | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap climate education images remote sensing software video |
| Academia | Berkeley AI Research Climate Initiative | developing methods, benchmarks, and software frameworks for integrating Observational, Multimodal, and Multiscale (OMMS) data sources with machine learning libraries; projects include algal bloom detection, animal re-identification in camera traps; NumS; snow | https://ai-climate.berkeley.edu/ | Berkeley, California | United States | academic lab AI/ML climate data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Academia | Boettiger Group | research includes ecological forecasting & decision making under uncertainty, conservation & natural resource management, applying deep reinforcement learning for conservation decisions | https://www.carlboettiger.info/ | Carl Boettiger, UC Berkeley | Berkeley, California | USA | academic lab AI/ML climate education |
| Academia | Center for AI in Society | researching ideas about how AI can be used to tackle societal problems (conservation & sustainability being one, also disaster planning) | https://cais.usc.edu/ | Bistra Dilkina, Eric Rice, Univ of Southern California | Los Angeles, California | USA | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz |
| Academia | Center for Conservation Bioacoustics | makers of Swift (terrestrial passive acoustics) & Rockhopper (marine passive acoustics) recorders, plus Raven software (for bioacoustic analysis) | https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/technology/ | Holger Klinck, Laurel B. Symes, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York | USA | academic lab bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management education hardware marine/aquatic software terrestrial |
| Academia | Center for Global Discovery & Conservation Science | collection of research labs at Arizona State University; research includes coral reef conservation technology, mitigating & adapting to climate change, spectral imaging | https://gdcs.asu.edu/ | Greg Asner, Arizona State University | Hilo, Hawai'i, Phoenix, Arizona | USA | academic lab climate data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's education geospatial images marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Academia | Center for Research on Computation and Society | lab research includes PAWS, ML for conservation with UAVs, illegal smuggling & global wildlife trade | https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/ | Millind Tambe, Harvard | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | academic lab AI/ML camera trap data management drones/AUV's education local capacity building software tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
| Academia | Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment & Conservation | develop methods that link data analysis & modelling to conservation planning & management; provide hub connecting statisticians & biologists; projects include climate change modelling, ranger-collected data analysis, population change in marine predators; hosts large online stats toolbox educational resource | http://www.seec.uct.ac.za/ | University of Cape Town | Cape Town | South Africa | academic lab data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education events marine/aquatic terrestrial |
| Academia | Chuck Stewart's Lab | academic lab applying computer vision techniques to a variety of environmental monitoring challenges - motion analysis, re-identification, 3-D reconstruction & continual curation of data; advisor for computer vision research at WildMe | https://science.rpi.edu/computer-science/faculty/chuck-stewart | Chuck Stewart, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York | USA | academic lab AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management education geospatial images tracking/telemetry video |
| Academia | Computational Vision Laboratory | focused on computer vision, fine-grained categorization, object tracking & re-identification; project "Visipedia" produced iNaturalist & Merlin Bird ID to to identify species of plants & animals from photos | http://www.vision.caltech.edu/ | Pietro Perona, California Tech Univ | Pasadena, California | USA | academic lab AI/ML citizen science data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics education images mobile app software terrestrial |
| Academia | Computer Vision Group at University of Jena | research includes species identification, individual re-identification in images, & active learning | https://www.inf-cv.uni-jena.de/denzler#cv-ml | Joachim Denzler, University of Jena | Jena | Germany | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz education images |
| Academia | CREEM (Center for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modeling) | research center developing & applying mathematical & statistical methods to practical problems in biology & conservation; host seminar series & workshops, online software repositories | https://www.creem.st-andrews.ac.uk/ | Dr. David Borchers, Dr. Catriona Harris, University of St. Andrews | St Andrews, Scotland | UK | academic lab bioacoustics camera traps data analysis/viz drones/AUV's education events images marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | David Rolnick's Lab | research includes ML applied to climate change, biodiversity projects including species ID & remote sensing for ecosystem monitoring | https://davidrolnick.com/ | David Rolnick, McGill University & Mila | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | academic lab AI/ML climate education |
| Academia | dulog | maker of biologgers with focus on low-weight tags, logging proximity data between animals, miniaturized tags (<1 gram), configurable & customizable tags; remote data download options; tested mostly on bats | https://dulog.net/# | Institute of Electronics Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany | data-/bio-logging hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Academia | EcoVision Lab | machine learning for environmental sciences & geosciences - including remote sensing & urban forestry | https://prs.igp.ethz.ch/ecovision.html | Jan Dirk Wegner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in ZŸrich (ETH ZŸrich) | ZŸrich | Switzerland | academic lab AI/ML climate education geospatial images remote sensing |
| Academia | Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Lab | research on multimodal remote sensing, aerial censuses, species distribution modeling, environmental AI, makers of AIDE software | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/eceo/ | Devis Tuia, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) | Lausanne | Switzerland | academic lab AI/ML climate education geospatial images remote sensing software |
| Academia | Ermon Group | research applies AI & ML to sustainability, poverty mitigation, food security & renewable energy | https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/website/ | Stefano Ermon, Stanford University | Stanford, California | USA | academic lab AI/ML education geospatial images remote sensing |
| Academia | Forest Change Analysis Lab (FOCAL) | collect & analyze data to inform forest management during climate change, drought, wildfires; using geospatial datasets & field-based forest measurements | https://focal-lab.org/ | UC Davis, Derek Young | Davis, California | USA | academic lab climate data analysis/viz drones/AUV's education geospatial GPS remote sensing terrestrial |
| Academia | Frants Jensen's Lab | research includes ML for cetacean communication, animal-bourne biologging tags, & anthropogenic noise effects on marine animals | https://frantsjensen.weebly.com/ | Frants Jensen, Syracuse University | Syracuse, New York | USA | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz education marine/aquatic |
| Academia | Global Ecology Lab (JCU) | applying cutting-edge analytical techniques to environmental data to study at-risk species & ecosystems worldwide; extensive open-source datasets & software packages | https://www.globalecologylab.org/datasets-and-software | Nicholas Murray, James Cook University | North Queensland | Australia | academic lab climate data analysis/viz geospatial GPS open-source R/Rstudio software |
| Academia | Grant Hamilton's lab | lab focuses on conservation using drones, artificial intelligence, edge technology & advanced analytics; develops detection & aerial survey of animals (koala projects), detection of weeds, pests & invasives | https://research.qut.edu.au/environment/people/grant-hamilton/ | Grant Hamilton, Queensland University of Technology | Queensland | Australia | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz drones/AUV's remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science | interdisciplinary team with expertise in conservation science, geography, computer science, social sciences & economics; developing methods to investigate human-wildlife interactions & wildlife trade & to inform policy making | https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/helsinki-lab-of-interdisciplinary-conservation-science | Enrico Di Minin, University of Helsinki | Helsinki | Finland | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz data management education local capacity building terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Imageomics Institute | collaborative research, training, and community-facing environment for extracting existing & new biological traits from images of organisms, with the necessary cyber-, information, and model development infrastructure; developing machine learning tools to analyze animal imagery | https://imageomics.osu.edu/ | Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio | United States | AI/ML education images networking software |
| Academia | Jetz Lab | research includes ML For species distribution/niche modeling, remote sensing, data synthesis, species interaction networks | https://jetzlab.yale.edu/people/walter-jetz | Walter Jetz, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut | USA | academic lab AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz education geospatial |
| Academia | Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) Lab | research includes animal modeling in 3D ("Three-D Safari"), pose estimation & analysis | http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kanazawa/ | Angjoo Kanazawa, UC Berkeley | Berkeley, California | USA | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz education images tracking/telemetry video |
| Academia | Karen Joyce's Lab | remote sensing, aerial (UAV) monitoring; counting sea cucumbers & other indicators of oceanic/coastal environments for temporal ecosystem surveys | https://www.kejoyce.com/ | Karen Joyce, James Cook University | Townsville | Australia | academic lab AI/ML data management drones/AUV's education geospatial remote sensing |
| Academia | Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab | focus on data analysis, modeling linking biological, satellite & ocean observing data to develop analysis & visualization tools that inform marine management & conservation, maintain free, open-source geoprocessing toolbox (MGET) integrated with ArcGIS; run OBIS-SEAMAP | https://mgel.env.duke.edu/ | Duke University | Durham, North Carolina | USA | academic lab data analysis/viz data management geospatial marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Marine Landscape Ecology Lab | specialize in the use of geospatial technologies & spatial analyses to study the relationship between habitat, disturbance & species distribution in marine communities; involved in regional Ocean Observing Stations | https://csumb.edu/mlel/ | California State Univ-Monterey Bay | Monterey, California | USA | academic lab data analysis/viz education geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | MIT Media Lab | interdisciplinary research lab - relevant topics include sustainable cities & forest monitoring | https://www.media.mit.edu/ | Dava Newman (directory), MIT | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | academic lab AI/ML climate education geospatial remote sensing |
| Academia | National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS) | do transformational research in data science that makes environmental data easier to locate, access, interpret & analyze; has educational resources - courses, mentorship, tutorials, data repository; work on ABC Tracker, CodeMeta, EarthCube GeoLink, Community Dynamics Toolbox | https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ | University of California at Santa Barbara, Ben Halpern | Santa Barbara, California | United States | academic lab (a research group at a university), data analysis/viz (visualization), data management, education, geospatial, remote sensing, software |
| Academia | Oisin Mac Aodha's Lab | research includes "Shazam for Bats"; work on fine-grained image analysis as part of the team that developed the iNaturalist Challenge Datasets & self supervised monocular depth estimation (Monodepth) | https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod/ | Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, Scotland | UK | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap education images terrestrial |
| Academia | Predator-Prey Ecology lab | long-term studies of interactions between forest predators & prey; their demography, spatial ecology, occupancy & resource selection using passive bioacoustics, camera trapping & mark-recapture | https://www.damonlesmeister.com/ | Damon Lesmeister, Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon | United States | academic lab bioacoustics camera traps terrestrial |
| Academia | Realize Lab | conduct use-inspired research within AI for social impact; focused on multi-agent systems & machine learning for conservation & public health | https://sites.google.com/view/realize-lab/home?pli=1 | University of Michigan, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly | Ann Arbor, Michigan | USA | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz drones/AUV's education |
| Academia | Rebecca Hutchinson's Lab | research includes species distribution modeling, occupancy modelling using ML; methods for analyzing species interaction networks | http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rah/ | Rebecca Hutchinson, Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon | USA | academic lab AI/ML citizen science education images |
| Academia | Sandin Conservation Tech Lab | develop data collection & analytical pipelines for large-area imaging of coral reefs; houses Center for Environmental Imaging-software consulting firm providing 3D image-based modeling of large-scale environments | https://sandinlab.ucsd.edu/conservation-technology/ | Stuart Sandin, Univ of California-San Diego & Scripps Oceanographic Institute | San Diego, California | USA | academic lab consulting data analysis/viz education geospatial images marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Academia | Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment | unifying the power of data, computing & environmental science; building tangible, replicable & accessible solutions to problems compromising the health of our environment | https://ds4e.berkeley.edu/ | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California | United States | data analysis/viz data management |
| Academia | Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab | develop new acoustic instrumentation & analytical approaches to improve our understanding of the ecology of marine animals & impact of anthropogenic sounds on them; 3-D tracking, bioacoustics projects; makers of Triton bioacoustic analysis MATLAB package | https://www.cetus.ucsd.edu/index.htmlScri | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Marine Bioacoustics Research Collaborative | La Jolla, California | United States | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management marine/aquatic software tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Shima Abadi's Lab | research includes understanding ambient ocean noise, community science annotations, animal bioacoustics, graph signal processing | https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/abadi/research?authuser=0 | Shima Abadi, University of Washington Bothell | Bothell, Washington | USA | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics climate citizen science education marine/aquatic mobile app |
| Academia | SLU Moose Research | moose tracking program with online visualization tool that shows movement patterns of tagged moose; https://wram.slu.se/public | https://www.slu.se/moose-research | Goran Ericsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) | Umea | Sweden | academic lab data analysis/viz education geospatial GPS terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Sound Forest Lab | passive acoustic monitoring projects in Borneo, Gabon, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea for conservation (monitoring endangered species, soundscapes, human activity like logging) | https://www.soundforestlab.org/ | Zuzana Burivalova, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin | USA | academic lab bioacoustics terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
| Academia | Spatial Points lab | collection of notes on remote sensing, spatial science, and solutions to problems encountered from team that specializes in range of GIS, image processing & remote sensing applications | http://www.spatialpoints.com/ | Spatial Sciences Group, Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility (University of Adelaide) | Adelaide | Australia | education geospatial images open-source remote sensing |
| Academia | Spatial Sciences group | use remote sensing, GIS, ecological modeling & multi-objective decision support systems to understand spatial variability, temporal dynamics, change & interrelationships in natural and managed ecosystems, terrestrial & marine environments | https://set.adelaide.edu.au/biological-sciences/research/ecology-environmental-science/spatial-sciences | Morgan Lewis & Bertram Ostendorf (University of Adelaide) | Adelaide | Australia | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial GPS remote sensing |
| Academia | Tanya Berger-Wolf's Lab | Computational Ecology lab - research includes social network analysis & population census through re-identification. Dr. Berger-Wolf is also on the board of directors at WildMe. | https://cse.osu.edu/people/berger-wolf.1 | Tanya Berger-Wolf, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio | USA | academic lab AI/ML camera trap education images marine/aquatic terrestrial |
| Academia | Tech4Wildlife - Georgia Tech | support community-driven tech for wildlife programs by collaborating with local conservation leaders; connect students with sponsors for projects; provide outreach & educational programs | https://www.tech4wildlife.com/ | Georgia Tech University, Andrew Schulz | Atlanta, Georgia | USA | academic lab education funding local capacity building networking |
| Academia | Toke T. H¿ye Lab | research includes image-based tools for identifying & monitoring insects & flowers & biotic interactions between them with the use of computer vision & deep learning; special focus on the Arctic | https://sites.google.com/site/hoyelab/ | Toke H¿ye, Aarhus University | Aarhus | Denmark | academic lab AI/ML climate education images |
| Academia | Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility | drone operator training & education provider; offer short courses & training opportunities; provide research & consultancy services & customized training solutions for wide range of environmental & agricultural applications | https://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/uraf/ | Ramesh Raja Segaran, University of Adelaide | Adelaide | Australia | academic lab drones/AUV's education events hardware images |
| Academia | Upham Lab of Phylogenetic Ecology | research includes AI for taxonomic analysis & mapping; lead the Mammal Diversity Database; improving Mammal Tree of Life based on GBIF, GenBank, etc.; building knowledge graph for mammal host-pathogen interactions | https://n8u.org/ | Nate Upham, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona | USA | academic lab AI/ML eDNA/genetics education |
| Academia | WildDrone | international doctoral training network; working to revolutionize wildlife conservation by integrating aerial robotics, computer vision, wildlife ecology & autonomous drone technology | https://wilddrone.eu/ | EU Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions | academic lab AI/ML data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's ducation funding hardware tracking/telemetry |
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| Academia | Wildlife Coexistence Lab (WildCo Lab) | research areas: mammal community dynamics in altered ecosystems, coexisting with large carnivores, population estimation & monitoring | https://wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca/ | University of British Columbia, Dr. Cole Burton | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada | academic lab AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz data management education GPS images terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Academia | Zipkin Quantitative Ecology Lab | develops statistical models & applies these models to critical problems in population & community ecology & conservation biology; unmarked data, community & data integration models | https://zipkinlab.org/ | Elise Zipkin, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan | United States | data analysis/viz R/Rstudio |
| Community | Acoustic Tracking Array Platform | collaborative listening station array on Southern African coast-nationwide marine science platform to track tagged animals, use acoustic telemetry | https://saveourseas.com/project/the-acoustic-tracking-array-platform-atap/ | Save Our Seas | South Africa | bioacoustics hardware marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | Africa GeoPortal | bringing together GIS users across Africa (from Esri); geospatial tools, open data, & learning resources | https://www.africageoportal.com/ | education geospatial local capacity building networking open-source remote sensing |
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| Community | African Drones | community of African drone pilots & engineers for sharing resources, group-buys, drone journalism, virtual events | https://africandrone.org/ | Capetown Dar es Salaam | South Africa Tanzania | events drones/AUV's funding local capacity building networking |
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| Community | AgriHUB | AI & Earth Observation for Sustainable Land Ecosystems; building open-source earth observation, machine learning & remote sensing tools for agricultural monitoring, ecosystem change detection & projection; | https://github.com/Agri-Hub | Dr. Vasileios Sitokostantinou, National Observatory of Athens | Athens | Greece | academic lab AI/ML climate geospatial open-source python, remote sensing |
| Community | AI for Climate | global initiative to use AI to fast-track humanity's response to climate change; open data, forums, lightning talks & resources around using AI for climate | https://www.forclimate.ai/ | Madrid New York Mexico City, Guadalajara | Spain USA Mexico | AI/ML education climate events jobs |
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| Community | AI for Conservation Slack community | a forum for discussing AI applications to conservation, asking questions & they have a #jobs channel | https://join.slack.com/t/aiforconservation/shared_invite/zt-9e1a80pf-Ez0UK51jYv1Lgd~Hwyy5Zw | Sara Beery | AI/ML education funding hardware jobs software |
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| Community | AI for Earth Observation | research collab with 20 organizations & 70+ scientists focusing on AI & geospatial data, particularly ethics, temporal/spatial reasoning & inference & quantifying uncertainties | https://ai4eo.de/ | Germany | AI/ML geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Community | AI for Environment & Sustainability (ARIES) | aims to put sohpisticated modeling capabilities at fingertips of non-technical users & decision-makers; have trainings to learn platform; quantifying benefits that nature provides to society (ecosystem services, natural capital accounting, mapping); collaborative cloud-based environmental | https://aries.integratedmodelling.org/ | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz events geospatial local capacity building |
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| Community | Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute | data & analytics portal with species/habitat datasets & mapping products, NatureLynx citizen science app, WildTrax platform for managing/storing/processing/sharing biological & environmental sensor data | https://www.abmi.ca/home.html | Alberta | Canada | camera trap citizen science data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management mobile app remote sensing |
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| Community | Animal Telemetry Network | regionally distributed data collection, management & sharing capacity; centralized data assembly center currently located at Axiom Data Science; regional telemetry data aggregated in single place with access to all U.S. national animal telemetry data | https://atn.ioos.us/ | IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) | data management geospatial GPS open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | ARCS | Arenas for cooperation through citizen science; Swedish national hub for citizen science | https://medborgarforskning.se/eng/ | Sweden | citizen science networking |
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| Community | Avian Knowledge Network | collaborative effort to facilitate & enhance bird conservation across US & Canada through data management & visualization tools; online monitoring protocols, survey best practices | https://avianknowledge.net/ | Point Blue Conservation Science | USA Canada | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education GPS networking software tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | Bio Bridge | program focused on catalyzing & facilitating technical & scientific cooperation, access & benefit-sharing among Parties to the CBD; creating a space (interactive web platform) for countries & institutions to share knowledge, good practices & lessons learned with each other; seed funding program, events, virtual helpdesk | https://www.cbd.int/biobridge/ | Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Korean government | education events funding local capacity building networking software |
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| Community | BIOSCAN | three research themes: employ DNA barcodes to speed species discovery (generate barcode coverage for 2M species), to probe species interactions (targeting the symbiome), & to track species dynamics (scan biological communities at 2,000 sites) | https://ibol.org/programs/bioscan/ | International Barcode of Life | data-/bio-logging data management eDNA/genetics marine/aquatic networking terrestrial |
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| Community | BioSCape | NASA Biodiversity field campaign in the Greater Cape Floristic Region of South Africa incorporating airborne imaging spectroscopy, lidar & field observations | https://www.bioscape.io/ | Adam Wilson, Erin Hestir, Jasper Slingsby, Anabelle Cardoso | South Africa | geospatial images remote sensing |
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| Community | BioTrack | collaborative network to assess & monitor biodiversity hotspots where marine megafauna share habitat; maps & tracks hotspots through biotelemetry, biologging; record remotely sensed environmental data & essential ocean variables (EOVs) | https://marinebon.org/pages/biotrack/ | Animal Telemetry Network, Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, Neil Hammerschlag, Chelsea Black | data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS marine/aquatic networking remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | Birda | birdwatching community app for UK & USA; can log bird sightings | https://birda.org/ | London | UK | citizen science data-/bio-logging data management education events GPS images mobile app |
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| Community | Cadasta | provides technical tools & Services to support documentation of l& & resource rights, particularly by indigenous communities who are living on l& with no formal rights or ownership; building global Cadasta Trainer network; has grant program | https://cadasta.org/ | education funding geospatial local capacity building software |
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| Community | Citclops | develop systems to retrieve & use data on seawater color, transparency, etc. using low-cost sensors combined with people as data carriers, georeferencing, & community-based platform (integrated with Coastwatch Europe, Oil Reporter, etc.) | http://www.citclops.eu/home | Barcelona | Spain | citizen science data-/bio-logging education GPS data management marine/aquatic networking |
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| Community | Climate Central | independent group of scientists & communicators who research & report facts about changing climate & how it affects people's lives; policy-neutral non-profit; Climate Matters program - provides local meteorologists with climate data & graphics; Sea Level Rise program - assesses & maps coastal threats globally; Journalism Partnerships | https://www.climatecentral.org/ | Princeton, New Jersey | USA | climate data management education funding jobs local capacity building |
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| Community | Climate Change AI | global initiative to catalyze impactful work at intersection of climate change & machine learning; workshops, resources; has repository of workshop papers; maintains CCAI Wiki; has virtual happy hours every 2 weeks | https://www.climatechange.ai/ | Priya Donti, Lynn Kaack, David Rolnick | AI/ML education events funding networking |
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| Community | Computational Sustainability Network | research network of 13 institutions exploring new research directions in computational sustainability. | https://www.compsust.net/ | Cornell University | Ithaca, New York | USA | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz networking |
| Community | Conservation Measures Partnership | creates conservation standards (principles & practices for effective conservation) & maintains conservation measures partnership to guide practice of conservation; maintains database of evidence-based conservation initiatives & their outcomes | https://www.conservationmeasures.org/ | Nature Conservancy, WWF, WCS, Conservation Intl, Foundations of Success | education data management software |
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| Community | Conservation Tech Working Group | platform for discussion, collaboration & coordination of research & activities around use of different technologies in conservation | https://conbio.org/groups/working-groups/conservation-technology-working-group/ | Society for Conservation Biology | education events networking |
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| Community | Dawn Chorus | citizen science project started during COVID-19 pandemic that invites people around the world to collect bird songs for biodiversity research, art & building conservation awareness; has mobile app & online platform | https://dawn-chorus.org/en/ | BIOTOPIA _ Naturkundemuseum Bayern, Landesbund fŸr Vogelschutz | bioacoustics citizen science education mobile app terrestrial |
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| Community | Deep Faune | collaborative project to develop an automatic recognition tool for animal species in France; have annotated image database with >400,000 images & videos; can classify humans, vehicles, empty images, and 18 common species; software to use model being developed | https://www.deepfaune.cnrs.fr/ | Simon ChamaillŽ-Jammes, Vincent Miele, Bruno Spataro, Noa Rigoudy | France | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz images terrestrial video |
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| Community | Digital Earth Africa | open-access/open-source geospatial data platform for African continent; integrated with AfriGEO; has online training; Africa GeoPortal (Esri) imagery; Sandbox (access to data & analysis tools for geospatial reporting) | https://www.digitalearthafrica.org/ | data analysis/viz data management education events images local capacity building geospatial networking open-source |
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| Community | DIY Drones | leading community for personal UAVs | https://diydrones.com/ | Chris Anderson | drones/AUV's education hardware |
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| Community | EAR (ecoacoustics research program) | developers of seewave R package, scikit-maad & bambird Python packages; conduct ecoacoustic research around the world (Korea, Kuwait, France, French Guiana, Russia, USA) | https://ear.cnrs.fr/ | Institut de SystŽmatique Evolution et BiodiversitŽ | France | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics education marine/aquatic python R/Rstudio terrestrial |
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| Community | Earth Defenders toolkit | has online community to connect & learn from other users; toolkit with 'ToolFinder', Mapeo (app for documenting environmental info & collecting data (can be used offline on desktop app & mobile), Terrastories (place-based storytelling) & Community Lands (website management tool for communities to publish info, stories, projects) | https://www.earthdefenderstoolkit.com/ | Digital Democracy, Alianza Ceibo, Amazon Conservation Team, Amazon Frontlines, ECA Amarakaeri, Forest Peoples Programme, Open Development Initiative, Raks Thai & South Rupununi District Council | data management education geospatial local capacity building mobile app networking |
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| Community | Echospace | ocean acoustics & data science group focusing on extracting knowledge from ocean acoustic data, particularly water column sonar data & echolocation | https://uw-echospace.github.io/ | Univ of Washington | Washington | USA | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Community | Ecological Forecasting Initiative | aimed at building & supporting interdisciplinary community of practice around ecological forecasts, statistics for ecology; host workshops, online resources | https://ecoforecast.org/ | USA | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz data management education events networking R/Rstudio python software |
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| Community | Ecosystem Monitoring for Management Application (EMMA) | combine Earth observations (e.g., NDVI), in situ observations & ecological forecasting models to characterize spatial & temporal variation of vegetation state for near real-time monitoring & change detection (invasive pest, fire detection) | https://www.emma.eco/home | Jasper Slingsby, Glenn Moncrieff, Yingjie Hu, Adam M. Wilson | data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing |
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| Community | Encosh | international knowledge-sharing & exchange platform for human-wildlife interactions & strategies to mitigate conflict; aims to increase engagement between stakeholders & make info more readily available & accessible | https://encosh.org/en/ | education local capacity building networking wildlife crime prevention |
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| Community | ENRAM | European Network for the Radar surveillance of Animal Movement; multidisciplinary research network to foster continental-scale remote sensing of animal migration | http://www.enram.eu/ | data-/bio-logging networking remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | EUROMAMMALS | umbrella project that coordinates & connects different species-specific, bottom-up projects that promote collaborative science based on knowledge & data sharing to investigate spatial ecology of European wildlife | https://euromammals.org/ | data-/bio-logging data management geospatial remote sensing |
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| Community | European Tracking Network | pan-Euro initiative to integrate all aquatic animal tracking/biotelemetry systems in 1 network; 2000 deployments, 500 million detections | http://www.europeantrackingnetwork.org/ | AtlantOS, LifeWatch, COST (European Cooperation in Science & Tech) | data-/bio-logging marine/aquatic remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | FACT Network | collaboration of marine scientists using acoustic telemetry & other tech to research & conserve America's fish & sea turtles (& marine areas more broadly) | https://secoora.org/fact/ | SECOORA (Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association) | bioacoustics marine/aquatic |
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| Community | Forest Data Partnership | aligning partners & stakeholders around global forestry data, monitoring of commodity-driven deforestation; create data-driven solutions for ending deforestation & accelerating restoration | https://www.forestdatapartnership.org/ | World Resources Institute | USA | data analysis/viz data management networking terrestrial |
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| Community | Freshwater Watch | global citizen science project for monitoring lakes, rivers & wetlands; take samples which are used to extract mineral levels, turbidity, etc. | https://freshwaterwatch.thewaterhub.org/ | Earthwatch Europe | citizen science data management hardware marine/aquatic |
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| Community | FruitPunch AI | provides AI education for the world's most pressing challenges; partners with organizations; topics include poaching prevention, coral reef conservation, wind energy, earth observations | https://fruitpunch.ai/projects/ | Buster Franken, Sako Arts | Eindhoven | The Netherlands | AI/ML climate consulting drones/AUV's education GPS images networking remote sensing terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
| Community | GEO BON | Group on Earth Observations, Biodiversity Observation Network; building pathway to link biodiversty data & metadata to GEOSS [ environmental data] to provide decision-support tools to users implementing Essential Biodiversity Variables, monitoring guidelines & data management systems; BONs now for China, Colombia, France, Arctic, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Marine, Freshwater, Soil | https://geobon.org/ | Group on Earth Observations, iDiv, German Science Foundation | consulting data management data analysis/viz geospatial networking software |
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| Community | Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability | international business-to-business platform to advance a unified framework for interoperable seafood traceability practices, improve reliability of seafood info, reduce cost of traceability, reduce supply chain risk, & contribute to long-term social & environmental sustainability of the sector | https://traceability-dialogue.org/ | consulting data management education marine/aquatic networking |
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| Community | Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data | global network using data to achieve the SDGs, build collaborations between government, private, & non-profit sectors, improve data to monitor & achieve SDGs, create incentives to fund & share data | https://www.data4sdgs.org/ | Secretariat (team w/ members in Conakry, Lagos, Nairobi, Brussels, London, New York, Washington DC) | data management climate funding networking |
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| Community | GoodAI community | empowering companies that use AI to help deliver on SDGs; online discussion boards, company directory, job board, responsible AI resources | https://thegoodai.co/ | AI/ML consulting education funding jobs networking |
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| Community | Green Tech Alliance | support green tech companies that put planet before profit; brings together green tech businesses to support them with advice about funding, impact, visibility & strategy | https://www.greentech.earth/ | consulting education events funding networking |
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| Community | ILTER | International Long Term Ecological Research; "network of networks" encompassing >600 sites globally across 39 country networks; has small grants program; maintained through Dynamic Ecological Info Mgmt System (DEIMS); | https://www.ilter.network/ | Hideaki Shibata, Michael Mirtl | Vienna | Austria | data-/bio-logging data management funding networking |
| Community | IMOS | Integrated Marine Observing System; national research infrastructure from Australian government; delivers high-quality marine & climate data to stakeholders for use in research & operational activities; consists of ocean radar, animal tracking, on-ship monitoring, deep water moorings, ocean gliders, mooring network, remote sensing, marine microbiome measuring | https://imos.org.au/ | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy/ | Hobart | Tasmania | climate data-/bio-logging data management eDNA/genetics hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
| Community | Integrated Ocean Observing System | integrated network gathering observing data & developing tracking & predictive tools; have grant opportunities; has model viewer (data visualization platform, generate time series analyses), has profiling gliders; data catalog; environmental sensor map | https://ioos.us/ | NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) | Silver Spring, Maryland | USA | climate data analysis/viz data management funding geospatial GPS marine/aquatic networking open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
| Community | International Bio-logging Society | brings together researchers interested in bio-logging & telemetry methods in aquatic, terrestrial & aerial environments; | https://www.bio-logging.net/ | data-/bio-logging education events funding marine/aquatic networking terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | International Quiet Ocean Experiment | program to promote research, observations & modelling to improve understanding of ocean soundscapes & effects of sound on marine organisms | https://www.iqoe.org/ | Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission | marine/aquatic networking bioacoustics data analysis/viz |
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| Community | iSpot | citizen science community helping to identify wildlife & share nature | https://www.ispotnature.org/ | The Open University | citizen science education images networking software video |
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| Community | iTag Network | collaboration to improve understanding of animal migration & residency in the Gulf of Mexico; >2200 animals tagged with 1118 receivers | https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/telemetry/itag/network/ | Dr. Sue Lowerre-Barbieri, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, University of Florida | Florida | USA | data-/bio-logging data management geospatial GPS marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Community | Lifeplan | bring together key expertise needed to generate & interpret Big Ecological Data for a global synthesis of biotic patterning globally, uniting community ecology, methods for automated species recognition & Bayesian statistics for immense data; network of sites with continuous, standardized sampling | https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/projects/lifeplan/about | University of Helsinki | Helsinki | Finland | bioacoustics camera traps data analysis/viz data management networking remote sensing terrestrial |
| Community | LifeWatch ERIC | distributed research infrastructure consortium; has catalogue of virtual labs (R Shiny data explorer, microCT virtual galleries & 3-D analysis tools, ecological modeling), metadata catalogue, training catalogue, Ecoportal (repository of semantic resources for ecology) | https://www.lifewatch.eu/ | 7 EU member-states: Belgium, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain | data analysis/viz data management education images networking software |
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| Community | MammalWeb | camera trap network around the UK & continental Europe; anyone can be a "Spotter" & help identify animals or can borrow a camera trap or upload their own camera trap data | https://www.mammalweb.org/en/ | Durham University, Durham Wildlife Trust, Emily Baker, Sian Green, Sammy Mason, Jonathan Rees | Durham, England | UK | camera trap citizen science data management education images terrestrial |
| Community | Marine Biodiversity Observation Network | growing global initiative composed of regional networks of scientists, resource managers, & end-users working to integrate data from existing long-term programs to improve our understanding of marine biodiversity; expanding application of remote sensing methods, novel molecular (eDNA) technologies; has US MBON & global MBON; hosts data portals | https://marinebon.org/ | US MBON (NOAA, NASA, IOOS offices) & global MBON (GEO BON) | data management eDNA/genetics networking remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | MD4SG Environment and Climate Working Group | multi-institutional initiative using techniques from algorithms, optimization, & mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved & disadvantaged communities | https://www.md4sg.com/workinggroups/environment.html | founded: Rediet Abebe & Kira Goldner/maintain: Irene Lo, Ana-Andreea Stoica, Lily Xu, Wanyi Li, Francisco Marmolejo | AI/ML education local capacity building networking |
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| Community | MegaMove | standardized dataset of tracked marine megafauna movements via bio-logging data; global network of researchers collecting & sharing data | https://megamove.org/ | Ana M. M. Sequeira, Australian Research Council, University of Western Australia | Perth | Australia | data-/bio-logging data management GPS marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Community | NEON | US National Ecological Observatory Network; provides ecological data from sites across the continent to quantify ecological processes over time & space; coordinates local measurements with airborne remote sensing data; 47 terrestrial sites, 34 freshwater aquatic field sites | https://www.neonscience.org/ | National Science Foundation | data-/bio-logging data management geospatial hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Community | Ocean Tracking Network | global monitoring network for oceans management; leveraging international collaborations, data warehousing, aquatic animal tracking network (>2000 acoustic tracking stations deployed) | https://oceantrackingnetwork.org/ | Dalhousie University | Canada | data management marine/aquatic networking remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | ODK-X | community that produces free & open-source software for collecting, managing & using data in resource-constrained environments; can build custom data mgmt apps | https://odk-x.org/ | Jeff Beorse, Raquel Bernedo, Waylon Brunette, Ben Green, Li Lin, Caroline Krafft, Emil Rossing | data management open-source mobile app software |
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| Community | Open Environmental Data | working to create better data management practices & collaborative governance structures for environmental data to be easily accessed & used | https://www.openenvironmentaldata.org/ | Shuttleworth Foundation | data management data analysis/viz education |
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| Community | Open Repar Alliance | international group of community repair organizations committed to longer-lasting electronic products; have open repair data standards | https://openrepair.org/ | Anstiftung, Fixit Clinic, iFixit, Repair Cafe, restart | hardware networking education events |
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| Community | SeaBee | creating cohesive national network; Norwegian infrastructure for drone-based research, mapping & monitoring in coastal zones; developing ML pipelines for drone data | https://seabee.no/ | Norway | data analysis/viz drones/AUV's hardware networking |
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| Community | Silent Cities project | participatory monitoring programme of urban soundscapes during COVID-19 lockdowns; analysis via: https://github.com/brain-bzh/SilentCities | https://osf.io/h285u/ | full author list in link | bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz networking |
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| Community | Snapshot Safari | looks to citizen scientists to identify wildlife from camera trap to help scientists understand the diversity & dynamics of wildlife populations across Africa | https://www.zooniverse.org/organizations/meredithspalmer/snapshot-safari | AI/ML camera traps citizen science data management images terrestrial |
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| Community | Snapshot USA | collaborative effort to sample mammal populations with camera traps in sites in all 50 US states across habitats & development zones; data management through Wildlife Insights; anyone can contribute if using the standardized methods | https://emammal.si.edu/snapshot-usa | eMammal | camera trap citizen science images terrestrial |
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| Community | Society for Conservation GIS | global community for those using geospatial tech for conservation of biodiversity, natural environments & cultural heritage | https://www.scgis.org/ | N/A | education events funding networking |
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| Community | SPACES Coalition | coalition aiming to mobilize the broader use of spatial intelligence for climate, nature & people by connecting data providers & technical institutions to decision-makers | https://www.spacescoalition.org/en | UNEP-WCMC, SYSTEMIQ, UNDP, IIASA, IIS | climate consulting geospatial remote sensing |
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| Community | Species360 | facilitates international collaboration in collection, sharing & analysis of knowledge on wildlife; curate Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS); integrates data from IUCN, CITES, TRAFFIC, Edge, etc. | https://www.species360.org/ | Mgmt team: Jim Guenter, Dalia, Conde, Peter Donlon, Nate Flesness, Elisabeth Hunt, Doug Verduzco | Minneapolis, Minnesota (HQ) | USA | data analysis/viz data management networking software |
| Community | TEAM Network | Tropical Ecology Assessment & Monitoring; merged with Wildlife Insights; uses standardized methods (camera-trapping a big one) to collect near-real time data on biodiversity, climate & land-cover change in 17 sites across Africa, Asia & Latin America; created to establish an early warning system for tropical forests | https://www.wildlifeinsights.org/team-network | Conservation International, WCS, Smithsonian Institute | camera trap hardware images local capacity building networking terrestrial video |
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| Community | TERN Australia | Ecosystem Research Infrastructure; measure key terrestrial ecosystem attributes over time at hundreds of field sites across Australia & openly provide model-ready data to researchers | https://www.tern.org.au/ | Univ of Queensland, Univ of Adelaide, Csiro, James Cook Univ | Australia | data-/bio-logging data management hardware networking software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Community | The eDNA Collaborative | aims to broaden use of environmental DNA for management & conservation, smooth path to widespread use by making technology & knowledge more accessible; has grants program, visiting scholars program | https://www.ednacollab.org/ | Ryan Kelly, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington | USA | academic lab eDNA/genetics funding networking |
| Community | Urban Wildlife Information Network | collaboration for understanding urban wildlife ecology; host database of urban wildlife camera trap images; introduce shared methodology for comparison across cities | https://www.urbanwildlifeinfo.org/ | Seth Magle | Chicago, Illinois | USA | camera traps citizen science data management education images local capacity building networking open-source terrestrial |
| Community | WILDHUB | international community of conservation professionals; provide a space to exchange ideas, make new partnerships, & create new solutions; has job board channel & events channel | https://wildhub.community/ | education events jobs networking |
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| Community | WILDLABS.NET | a community of conservationists, technologists, engineers, data scientists, entrepreneurs & change makers. Together, we share information, ideas, tools & resources to discover & implement technology-enabled solutions to some of the biggest conservation challenges facing our planet. | http://wildlabs.net/ | Conservation International, FFI, Royal Foundation, WCS, WWF, ZSL | bioacoustics camera trap education events funding hardware networking jobs local capacity building remote sensing software |
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| Community | WildTrack Specialist Group | community within WildTrack for conservationists & biologists using non-invasive technologies to monitor & protect endangered species | https://wildtrack.org/wildtrack-specialist-group-wsg/ | Wildtrack | bioacoustics camera trap images networking remote sensing video |
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| Community | WOCAT | World Overview of Conservation Approaches & Technologies (WOCAT); global network on Sustainable L& Management that promotes documentation, sharing & use of knowledge to support innovation & decision-making; maintain Global SLM database; host workshops & other events | https://www.wocat.net/en/ | International secretariat with regional & national partners & institutional members | consulting data management education events networking software |
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| Community | Xeno-Canto | citizen-science website for sharing bird sounds from around the world; can share your own recordings, help ID mystery recordings & share knowledge in forums | https://www.xeno-canto.org/ | Conservation International, FFI, Royal Foundation, WCS, WWF, ZSL, Arm, Google | bioacoustics citizen science data management education images networking open-source video |
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| Company | A/Vian Eco | consultancy specializing in terrestrial wildlife biology & bioacoustics surveys | https://avianeco.com/ | Tyne Baker | Calgary, Alberta | Canada | bioacoustics consulting data management education events local capacity building terrestrial |
| Company | Acorn Camera | camera trap & outdoor camera retailer; some models can send images back to your computer or phone when something is detected | https://acorncamera.com/ | Acorn Camera | Shenzhen | China | camera trap hardware images terrestrial |
| Company | Adafruit | electronics hardware maker, online platform for learning electronics | https://www.adafruit.com/ | New York City, New York | USA | education events hardware IoT open-source |
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| Company | Advanced Telemetry Systems | ATS; tracking devices - transmitters, receivers, antennas, GPS/satellite, dam fish sensors, remote dataloggers; have tiny options for insects/bats/etc | https://atstrack.com/index.html | Isanti, Minnesota | USA | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Company | Africa Wildlife Tracking | provide near real-time GPS tracking devices (tags/collars/horn implants, receivers, towers, satellite systems, accessories [antennas, cables, switch boxes]); have software & reporting dashboard | https://awt.co.za/ | Pretoria | South Africa | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | AI Digital World | Protected & Conservation Area Suite (PCA-Suite) is a galaxy of tools custom developed & comes along with a tablet (turn key approach) . We looking for partners for funding & collaborations esp. those of global repute . | https://aidigitalworld.com | Singapore | AI/ML climate consulting funding software |
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| Company | ai.fish | suite of AI tools for monitoring sustainable fish farms; has data management system too | http://www.ai.fish/ | AI/ML images marine/aquatic software video |
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| Company | Airseed Technology | drone-based reforestation; combating climate change & biodiversity loss by combining drone technology, AI & seed pod bio-technology | https://airseedtech.com/ | Andrew Walker, Andries Louw | Australia | AI/ML climate hardware drones/AUV's terrestrial |
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| Company | Apeman | camera trap/trail cam maker; devices $50-100 | https://apemans.com/collections/trail-camera/?sort_by=price-ascending | Longgang, Shenzhen | China | camera traps hardware images terrestrial |
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| Company | apic.ai | monitoring technology quantifies the behaviour of insects such as bees & bumblebees; to detect effects of substances, agricultural practices & environmental factors on pollinators | apic.ai | Karlsruhe | Germany | AI/ML camera trap data-/bio-logging IoT video |
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| Company | Applied Ocean Sciences | collective of ocean consultants doing oceanographic research with passive acoustics, marine mammal conservation, modeling ocean parameters; collaborate with academic, government & nonprofit partners | http://appliedoceansciences.com/ | Kevin Heaney | Fairfax Station, Virginia | USA | bioacoustics climate consulting data analysis/viz marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Company | Appsilon | data science consultancy providing R Shiny solutions, open-source packages & machine learning products; reduced or pro-bono rates when projects aligned with Data for Good mission | https://appsilon.com/company/ | Olga Mierzwa-Sulima | Warsaw | Poland | AI/ML camera trap climate consulting data analysis/viz open-source software |
| Company | archiREEF | utilizing 3D-printing to create artificial coral reefs made from natural materials to aid restoration | https://archireef.co/ | Vriko Yu | Hong Kong | China | climate IoT hardware marine/aquatic |
| Company | Argos | satellite constellation used often for terrestrial, marine & avian GPS tracking; worldwide location & data collection system dedicated specifically to studying/protecting environment | https://www.argos-system.org/applications-argos/wildlife-monitoring/ | CLS | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Arm | tech company & AI ecosystem funding/helping lots of conservation projects, climate tech, BearID project, RFCx | https://www.arm.com/ | Global HQ-Cambridge US HQ-San Jose, California | UK USA | AI/ML bioacoustics climate data analysis/viz funding hardware images IoT software |
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| Company | Array Labs | generate 3-D imaging (20cm resolution) of areas worldwide, using satellite & drone imagery | https://www.arraylabs.io/ | Andrew Peterson | Palo Alto, CA | USA | climate consulting data analysis/viz drones/AUV's images geospatial remote sensing |
| Company | Ashored | developers of sustainable technologies for commercial fishing; minimizing the risk of whale entanglements & trap loss/damage | https://ashored.ca/ | Aaron Stevenson, Ross Arsenault | Debert, Nova Scotia | Canada | consulting data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's GPS hardware marine/aquatic mobile app software tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Atlas Scientific | environmental robotics maker; includes sensors for terrestrial, marine, & climate parameters; wifi-enabled instruments; Atlas iot converts Raspberry Pi into water monitoring system | https://atlas-scientific.com/ | New York City, New York | USA | climate data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Company | Baotree | sustainability impact project management tools for data collection, verification, dashboards, data management, collaboration & communication | https://baotree.io/ | Kenya | data-/bio-logging data management mobile app open-source software |
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| Company | Barbastella Echology | acoustic ecology consultancy providing support & trainings for bat acoustic monitoring, from recording to processing & identification; coordinate International Bat Night | https://www.batacoustics.com/ | Nils Bouillard | Belgium | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management education |
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| Company | BatLogger | manufacturer of static & mobile bat acoustic recording equipment and software; series of bat detector recorders with GPS, GSM integration; BatScanner ultrasound mixing detector; some devices can be remotely operated from mobile app; BatExplorer acoustic analysis software | https://www.batlogger.com/en/ | Elekon | Luzern | Switzerland | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management GPS hardware mobile app software terrestrial |
| Company | Beewise | robotic AI-based beehive that houses 24 colonies; keepers can remotely treat hives & care for bees; solar-powered; climate controlled, pest controlled, automated harvesting, real-time alerts | https://www.beewise.ag/ | Saar Safra | AI/ML data analysis/viz hardware images remote sensing software terrestrial video |
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| Company | BiodAIverse | conservation tech consultancy for species monitoring; provide automated data collection & analysis through integration of hardware, software & AI; for monitoring nature effectively & making optimal real-time decisions | https://biodaiverse.com/en#block-equipo | Sevilla | Spain | AI/ML camera traps consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's images IoT tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Biologging Solutions Inc | makes dataloggers for acceleration, depth, temperature, geolocation, hydrophone (& integrated video logger); own analysis system; different battery options | https://biologging-solutions.com/en/ | Biosphere Info Lab, Kyoto Univ; Takuya Koizumi | Japan | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry video |
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| Company | Bioverse Labs | patented Precision Biodynamics system - AI powered tech enabling farmers & governments to monitor species population dynamics in real-time; uses smart low-cost IoT sensors, BIOMAP app; used in agriculture, urban environments, & to monitor invasive species | https://www.bioverselabs.com/ | AI/ML consulting hardware IoT mobile app software terrestrial |
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| Company | BirdBot | "using AI to power citizen science"; camera trap hardware being designed; for bird species ID, can contribute data to research, bird seed refill reminders | https://www.bird.bot/ | AI/ML citizen science software hardware |
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| Company | Birds AI | drone company that automates visual inspections (for solar farms, wind turbines, cell towers, etc.); also have worked with anti-poaching efforts | https://www.birds.ai/ | Delft | the Netherlands | consulting drones/AUV's hardware |
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| Company | Blaze Video | camera trap/trail cam manufacturer; Wifi- and Bluetooth-enabled cameras; $70-690 devices | https://www.blazevideo.net/collections | camera traps hardware images terrestrial |
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| Company | Blue Raster | mapping & data analysis org; helps story-tell through interactive mapping tech; can deploy Insights for ArcGIS, get spatial statistics, business intelligence, configure mobile apps, GIS analysis, build web apps, deploy/migrate to cloud, integrate content management systems | https://www.blueraster.com/ | Arlington, Virginia | USA | data analysis/viz data management geospatial marine/aquatic mobile apps software terrestrial |
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| Company | Browning | camera-trap company; prices $100-$300; options for solar power, GSM remote data download | https://browningtrailcameras.com/collections/trail-cameras | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Buckeye Cam | camera trap company; has networked cameras; $670-$1100; has its own demo & cam management software with AI image recognition embedded, makes base stations; can connect seismic & magnetic sensors; | https://www.buckeyecameras.com/ | Athens, Ohio | USA | camera trap hardware images IoT video |
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| Company | Bushnell | camera-trap company; prices $100-$300; has $100 solar panel plug in, cellular data download options | https://www.bushnell.com/trail-cameras-2/ | Kansas | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Campark | camera-trap company; prices $55-$140; has $65 solar power bank plus in option; has Wifi & Bluetooth connectivity options | https://www.campark.net/collections/frontpage | China | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Canopy Planet | works with forest industry's biggest customers & suppliers to develop business solutions that protect endangered forests; particularly fashion industry (CanopyStyle campaign), packaging (Pack4Good), paper alternatives (Ecopaper database), printer sustainability ranking, etc. | https://canopyplanet.org/ | Vancouver | Canada | climate consulting |
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| Company | CAPTAIN | Conservation Are Prioritization Through Artificial Intelligence; use reinforcement learning; integrate species distribution, land use, climate change, temporal changes to provide customized prioritization targets | https://www.captain-project.net/ | Daniele Silvestro, Stefano Goria, Thomas Sterner, Alexandre Antonelli | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial local capacity building open-source python software |
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| Company | Carbon Rewild | bioacoustic monitoring tech services to measure biodiversity; acoustic recorders & custom-made reports & analyses; have specific bat & bird analyses pipeline | http://www.carbonrewild.com | Stefan Zeeman, Dr Richard Howard | London, Bristol | UK | bioacoustics data management data analysis/viz hardware software |
| Company | CargoScreen | data-driven, digital detection platform to support shipping companies, freight forwarders, cargo handlers & relevant authorities manage risk from illegal wildlife trade; tools to detect illicit wildlife in cargo | https://www.cargoscreen.com/ | Zurich | Switzerland | AI/ML consulting software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Company | Cefas Technology Ltd | design & manufacture data-loggers for wildlife conservation; have archival loggers & electronic data capture system; have dive-loggers; devices with programmable release; multi-sensor systems | https://www.cefastechnology.co.uk/ | Centre for the Environment, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) | Lowestoft | UK | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Cellular Tracking Technologies | telemetry research tech, GSM/Argos/radio transmission, GPS/accelerometry, & inertial data; cloud portal to manage trackers, analyze data & visualize movement; can export to MoveBank | https://celltracktech.com/ | New Jersey | USA | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS hardware tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Ceres | biotelemetry tag manufacturer; specialize in long-term ear tags for large mammals; satellite remote data download | http://cerestag.com/ | Australia | data-/bio-logging GPS terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Ceres Tag Ltd | makers of Ceres Wild, worldÕs first direct-to-satellite smart ear tag (2021); enables remote monitoring of animals globally with automated updates on animalÕs health, welfare, geo-location; deployed across 5 continents | https://www.cerestag.com/ | Brisbane | Australia | AI/ML climate data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS hardware IoT remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Cetacean Research Technology | hydrophone & arrays for underwater acoustic research | cetaceanresearch.com | Joe Olson | Golden, Colorado | USA | bioacoustics hardware marine/aquatic wildlife crime prevention |
| Company | CLASlite | sensing tech for monitoring tropical deforestation & forest degradation; automated system for converting satellite imagery from its original (raw) format, through calibration, pre-processing, atmospheric correction, data analysis, & classification to derive high-resolution output images; has free webinars to learn it | https://claslite.org/ | i-Cultiver, Inc. | Tracy, California | USA | consulting data analysis/viz events geospatial GPS images remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Company | ClimateAI | help food & agriculture businesses build climate resilience, improve profitability & sustainably intensify production with customer-specific supply chain insights | https://climate.ai/ | Himanshu Gupta, Max Evans | AI/ML climate consulting |
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| Company | CLS | Collect, Localize, Satellites; operate Argos & Iridium satellite systems, water resource monitoring, l& management; aircraft & drone imagery | https://www.cls.fr/en/ | HQ in France, offices globally | France | drones/AUV's geospatial images remote sensing software hardware |
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| Company | Cococam | camera trap/trail cam manufacturer; has Wifi & Bluetooth-enabled cameras; $120-160 | https://cococamtech.com/collections/trail-camera | camera traps hardware images terrestrial |
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| Company | Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences | using CRISPR technology to attempt to de-extinct previously lost species | https://colossal.com/ | Ben Lamm, George Church, Ph.D. | Dallas, Texas; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts | USA | eDNA/genetics |
| Company | Comon Solutions | mission is to provide deep geospatial analytics to fill information gaps & reduce monitoring costs for ecosystem conservation-species id, ecological monitoring, geological assessment; AI-driven processing, derived 3-D info, interpret complex GIS info for clients; | https://www.comon.solutions/ | Ross Davison, Christopher Knight, Alex Reinhold | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS images marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | Connect Earth | convert purchase data to carbon footprint estimates; show users impact of their purchases on environment & empower them to reduce their footprint by making more sustainable purchasing decisions | https://www.connect.earth/ | London | UK | climate consulting data analysis/viz |
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| Company | Conservation Metrics | automated alternatives to wildlife survey efforts, combining remote-sensing, machine learning; for-profit model, do a lot of work for gov't agencies | https://conservationmetrics.com/ | Santa Cruz, California | USA | AI/ML consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing |
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| Company | ConservationAI Hub | automated detection of fauna from drones & camera traps & analysis of vegetation at multiple scales using AI; initial focus on koalas; portal for community groups and agencies from Australia to leverage top tier infrastructure and expertise | https://conservationai.net/ | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz drones/AUV's geospatial images software terrestrial |
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| Company | ConTech Africa | consultancy firm specializing in conservation technology services | https://www.contech.africa/ | Alina Peter Daati | Tanzania | consulting data management education local capacity building software terrestrial |
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| Company | Coral | complete toolkit to build products with local AI; on-device inferencing capabilities/embedded devices; can deploy offline, privacy protocols; solutions for on-device intelligence include object detection, pose estimation, image segmentation & key phrase detection; has pre-compiled models | https://coral.ai/ | AI/ML geospatial hardware IoT images software |
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| Company | Coreo (ecology) | digital survey tool/drag-and-drop builder; platform that enables you to build your own data collection apps without needing technical knowledge; have ecology-focused options | https://coreo.io/sectors/ecology/ | Dave Kilbey | UK | citizen science data management mobile app |
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| Company | Covert | LoRA trail cam systems + individual cameras ($70-$310) | ? | camera trap hardware images IoT video |
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| Company | Csiro Robotics & Autonomous Systems Group | Zebedee makers, lead Project ResQu; robotics & autonomous systems research group; pioneer in application of 2D & 3D simultaneous localisation & mapping (SLAM) tech | https://research.csiro.au/robotics/ | Brisbane | Australia | data-/bio-logging geospatial hardware remote sensing |
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| Company | Cuddeback | camera trap company; has Cuddelink proprietary wireless mesh network (transmits images from up to 15 cams to 1 "home" camera; cam to cam range up to 1/4 mile in forest ($250-$550) | https://www.cuddeback.com/ | Wisconsin | USA | camera trap hardware images IoT video |
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| Company | Custom Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS) | makers of the CATS Cam (multi-sensor videologger + accelerometer tag), Diary GPS tags, mini-tags (5g); use GSM & satellite wireless data transfer; have app to program/monitor tags, data management web portals & movement visualizer software | https://www.cats.is/ | Nikolai Liebsch, Peter Kraft | Queensland, Oberstdorf | Australia, Germany | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS hardware marine/aquatic mobile app software terrestrial tracking/telemetry video |
| Company | DeCaTron | AI-driven platform for assessing & simulating the biodiversity of forested regions to measure the ecological health of a given area & provide data-driven insights | https://www.thinkevolveconsulting.com/green-ai-products-decatron/ | Think Evolve Consultancy LLP | Mumbai | India | AI/ML camera traps consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial images software |
| Company | DeerLab | cloud-based application for camera trap image processing/organization & analysis; includes heat mapping, photo recognition, filtering, animal profiles, analytics, weather syncing, multi-users, bulk upload & more | https://deerlab.com | Jon Livingston, Ryan Wood | Jacksonville, Florida | USA | AI/ML camera trap climate data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS images software |
| Company | Dendra | ecosystem restoration platform for environmental managers; ecosystem insights & predictive capabilities; can activate targeted drone seeding programs | https://dendra.io/ | Susan Graham, Matthew Ritchie | USA | consulting data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's geospatial software terrestrial |
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| Company | Descartes Labs | geospatial analytics company with SaaS platform providing actionable intelligence powered by geospatial data available at planetary scale; addressing issues such as climate chance, food security, & sustainability | https://descarteslabs.com/ | Los Alamos National Lab scientists | USA | climate consulting geospatial images remote sensing software |
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| Company | Desert Star Systems | makers of underwater passive acoustic recorders (SonarPoint), wildlife satellite tags (can be incorporated with magnetometers, accelerometers, spawning detection sensors; uses Argos), acoustic release, ropeless fishing & positioning systems; working on mesh sensing networks for their devices | https://www.desertstar.com/ | Marco Flagg | Monterey Bay, California | USA | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging GPS hardware IoT marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Digital Globe | commercial vendor of high-resolution Earth imagery, data & analysis; global coverage & 16-year time-lapse image library; acquired by MAXAR Technologies? | https://www.digitalglobe.com/ | Colorado | USA | data analysis/viz geospatial hardware remote sensing software |
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| Company | Dive Technologies | makers of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for ocean exploration & surveying; has flexible payload, multi-sensor capability, long endurance; backed by AUV-Kit software technology | https://divetechnologies.com/ | data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing |
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| Company | DJI | drone-making company ($300-$7,000), Mavic brand; has buying guides; make camera drones too | https://www.dji.com/ | Shenzhen | China | drones/AUV's hardware |
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| Company | Drone Mapper | licensed versions of the desktop photogrammetry software, Remote Expert (generates Orthomosaics & DEMs) & Rapid | https://dronemapper.com/ | Cedaredge, Colorado | USA | data analysis/viz drones/AUV's remote sensing software |
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| Company | Drone Shark App | app to share realtime information about beach safety collected from drone footage (wildlife spotted in the area, wave conditions, etc.) | http://www.dronesharkapp.com.au/#home | Australia | citizen science drones/AUV's local capacity building marine/aquatic mobile app tracking/telemetry video |
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| Company | Droneseed | developing drone-based reforestation with proprietary seed vessels | https://droneseed.com/ | Seattle, Washington | USA | drones/AUV's hardware |
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| Company | e-obs GmbH | engineer & produce GPS telemetry products, focusing on lightweight multi-sensor GPS-tags; has bird solar tags, bird battery tags, GPS collars | https://e-obs.de/ | Gruenwald | Germany | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Earth Blox | build and run satellite image analyses in minutes; powered by Google Earth Engine (& datasets); drag-and-drop, no-code interface; cloud-based processing; can build customized workflows with bespoke indices & parameters; can conduct time series analysis, land use classification | https://www.earthblox.io/ | Edinburgh | Scotland | consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing software |
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| Company | EarthSense | uses TerraSentia field phenotyping system on under-canopy robot to monitor agriculture, farming; ML-based analytics; customizable for different sensors; on the edge embedded ML | https://www.earthsense.co/ | Chinmay Soman, Girish Chowdhary | Champaign, Illinois | USA | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz hardware software terrestrial |
| Company | Earthshot Labs | support landowners to restore ecosystems through open-source data tools for regenerative l& use (LandOS); ecological ML models & field observation data enable landowners to participate in carbon markets regardless of their size | https://earthshot.eco/ | CEO Troy Carter | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data management geospatial open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | Eco Logical Australia | environmental & heritage consultancy providing services related to natural resource management, remote sensing, offsets & ecological restoration; provide trainings | https://www.ecoaus.com.au/ | Tetra Tech | Sutherland, New South Wales | Australia | climate consulting data management education geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial |
| Company | Ecologis Consulting | provide low-cost data collection instrumentation, consulting; makes of KiloCam, CoralCam; | https://www.ecologisconsulting.com/ | Honolulu, Hawaii | USA | camera traps consulting hardware images marine/aquatic open-source terrestrial |
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| Company | Econode | makers of SmartTrap, a biosecurity wireless monitoring system using LoRaWAN IoT network (attach to traps, system tells you when they're triggered, user access control); & Satellite gateway for LoRa IoT devices | https://www.econode.nz/ | New Zealand | hardware IoT terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Ecotone telemetry | wildlife tracking hardware company; GPS tags & collars; UHF & GSM remote data download options (make base stations too), tags starting at 5g; waterproof housing | https://www.ecotone-telemetry.com/index.php/en | Poland | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Edge Impulse | embedded AI/machine learning on the edge company; has online no-code platform to upload your data to & run ML models on, which can then be deployed onto devices for on-device detection | https://www.edgeimpulse.com/ | Zach Shelby, Jan Jongboom | San Jose, California | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics consulting data analysis hardware images software video |
| Company | Edgetech | underwater tech maker-sonars, bathymetry systems, acoustic releases, ROV; Trap tracker app with bluetooth to monitor/manage fishing traps | https://www.edgetech.com/ | West Wareham, Massachusetts; Boca Raton, Florida | USA | consulting data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic mobile app |
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| Company | Envico Technologies | drone manufacturer; does aerial mapping by drone for high resolution, georeferenced photogrammetry; drone mounted thermal sensors with AI to detect animals, pests; developing seed pods for drone-based reforestation | https://www.envicotech.co.nz/ | New Zealand | data analysis/viz drones/AUV's geospatial hardware remote sensing software |
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| Company | eOceans | provides tools to track species, marine protected areas, blue carbon, IIU fishing; observation logger app; projects-eFisheries, eWrecks, eCave, eDisease, eFishKill, eManta, eInvasive,eShark, etc. | https://www.eoceans.co/ | Christine Ward | citizen science data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education geospatial images marine/aquatic mobile app software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Company | EsriÕs Conservation Solutions for Protected Area Management | ArcGIS conservation solutions designed for protected area management organizations, to support informed & timely conservation l& management decisions | https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/conservation/strategies/conservation-land-management | ESRI | camera trap data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS images mobile app software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Exodus | camera trap company ($230-$415); has 4G cellular options, solar panel plug-ins | https://exodusoutdoorgear.com/ | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | explorer.land | map-based platform to demonstrate the impact of forest projects; to connect with donors, investors, etc. by combining exciting storytelling & data on an interactive map | https://explorer.openforests.com/ | OpenForests UG | Krefeld | Germany | consulting data management geospatial local capacity building terrestrial |
| Company | Eyes on Earth | platform to analyze worldwide land-surface temperature, snow cover, precipitation, soil health, floods, agricultural risk/yield analysis, etc. using satellite observation | https://www.eyesonearth.org/ | Alan Basist, Weather Predict | consulting data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS remote sensing software |
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| Company | FASTCAT Cloud | online AI service that provides automatic species identification, localization & filtering in camera trap images/videos; useful for processing camera trap data to remove empty observations & filter to only species you're interested in | https://service.fastcat-cloud.org/ | DynAikon Ltd | UK | AI/ML camera traps citizen science consulting images software video |
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| Company | FaunaLabs | wearables designed for animals, using bio-optical sensors for physiological monitoring; starting use cases with dogs, horses & whales; Fauna Tag, Fauna Collar | https://www.faunalabs.com/ | Durham, North Carolina | USA | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Company | Finite Carbon | North America's leading developer & suppler of forest carbon offsets | https://www.finitecarbon.com/ | HQ in Wayne, Pennsylvania (offices in Florida & Oregon) | USA | climate consulting |
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| Company | Fishtek Marine | conservation engineering company that maintains a range of tech to reduce bycatch in pelagic longline, gill net, seine & trap fisheries | https://www.fishtekmarine.com/ | Devon | UK | consulting hardware marine/aquatic |
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| Company | ForestMind | combines domain expertise with Earth Observation data & isotopic analysis to help food retailers eliminate products that have caused deforestation from food supply chains | https://sa.catapult.org.uk/projects/forestmind/ | Catapult Satellite Applications | Oxford, England | UK | climate consulting data analysis/viz remote sensing terrestrial |
| Company | ForestPesa | peer-to-peer green lending platform for forest restoration using blockchain, GIS of validated Environmental Conservation Credits; web & mobile app; pilot projects with Gorilla Conservation Coffee (Democratic Republic of Congo) & FuelForest Venture (Uganda) | https://forestpesa.com/ | Robert Ddamulira | funding local capacity building mobile app software terrestrial |
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| Company | FreakLabs | develops customizable, accessible, affordable Arduino-compatible hardware for environmental, conservation & wildlife monitoring; specialize in imaging & video technology & wireless sensor networks | https://conservation.freaklabs.org/ | Chris 'Akiba' Wang, Jacinta Plucinski | Japan Australia | AI/ML camera trap consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz education hardware IoT remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | Frontier Labs | makes BAR-LT bioacoustic audio recorders (solar-powered option too); $1100 but can also rent for less (short or long-term); uses 18650 batteries, has built in GPS; has scheduler software for programming devices | https://frontierlabs.com.au/ | Michael Maggs, Mark Calder | Brisbane, Queensland | Australia | bioacoustics GPS hardware software |
| Company | Gaia AI | gather & analyze forest data for carbon credits, toward meaningful & verified carbon sequestration | https://www.gaia-ai.eco/ | Peter McHale | Boston, Massachusetts | USA | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz hardware local capacity building mobile app software |
| Company | Gaia Resources | environmental technology consultancy focusing on responsible, sustainable tech solutions; develop & contribute to open-source software, use open data; products include NAFI Fire Info App & QGIS blugin, forest canopy change detection software, data management platforms | https://www.gaiaresources.com.au/ | Perth (HQ), Brisbane, Darwin | Australia | consulting data analysis/viz data management marine/aquatic mobile app remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | Galago | l& monitoring software using aerial & satellite imagery to inventory sites; uses AI to analyze health, growth & distribution of vegetation to spot signs of erosion, contamination, invasive species, etc. | https://www.galago.ai/ | Denver, Colorado | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | GeoNadir | central repository for storing, sharing, managing & accessing drone data following FAIR principles; education materials for capturing & analyzing drone mapping data; free orthomosaics | https://geonadir.com/ | Karen Joyce, Paul Mead | Australia | data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's education images software |
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| Company | GeoTrak Inc | makers of satellite telemetry PTT devices (platform transmitter terminal), solar-powered with GPS (use Argos); 5g & up; mostly bird-borne tags | https://www.geotrakinc.com/ | Apex, North Carolina | USA | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Global Conservation Solutions | strategy consultancy firm specializing in corporate responsibility; provide professional, solutions-focused services that assist NGOs, government agencies, & private sector to deliver biodiversity outcomes more efficiently & effectively | https://www.globalconservationsolutions.com/ | Josh Noseworthy | consulting | ||
| Company | GPS Collars | FliteTrax (avian), EarTrax (ear tag); CellTrax (collars, tags); IoT, GSM data download, collect environmental data too; also has software - data converter, configuration app; upload tools | https://www.gps-collars.com/ | Donna | Norway | data-/bio-logging data management geospatial GPS hardware IoT software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Habitat | nature-based solutions consultancy; makers of Treezilience (assesses functional diversity of forests), Connect2 (dentifies critical corridors for species movement to guide land use planning); conduct ecosystem service assessments | https://en.habitat-nature.com/nos-outils | Christian Messier, Andrew Gonzalez, Jerome Dupras | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | climate consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial local capacity building |
| Company | Haikubox | Haikubox & HaikuMarine are listening devices that individuals or organizations can use to identify birds & marine mammal sounds that are recorded on the devices | https://haikubox.com/ | David Mann, Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Ithaca, New York, USA | USA | bioacoustics hardware marine/aquatic software terrestrial |
| Company | Hatfield | environmental consultancy focused on advancing sustainable development globally; works with for-profit, private-sector, & government org's & non-profits to provide cost-effective, sustainable solutions to clients' environmental & social needs | https://www.hatfieldgroup.com/ | HQ in Canada + other offices | Canada Botswana Indonesia | consulting | |
| Company | Holohil | maker of VHF transmitters; tags as small as 0.3g; different attachment mechanisms - glue, tailmount, implant, backpack, collar, harness; have grants program | https://www.holohil.com/ | Fred Anderka | Ontario | Canada | data-/bio-logging funding hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Hookpod | hook-shielding tool for pelagic longline fishing that stops seabird bycatch, is safer for crew, has no negative impact on target catch rates | https://www.hookpod.com/en/ | Devon | UK | hardware marine/aquatic |
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| Company | Icoteq | technology innovation consultancy specializing in designing wireless technology & IoT systems, & accompanying software; collaborators on Arribada's plastic tracking & turtle tracking projects, helped develop devices & process signals/data | https://www.icoteq.com/applications/ | Craig Rackstraw & Liam Wickins | Bath, Wells | UK | consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz GPS hardware IoT marine/aquatic software terrestrial |
| Company | IdentiFlight | develop AI-enabled bird detection system to detect protected avian species in wind farms, prevent collisions, etc.; use connected IoT towers | https://www.identiflight.com/ | Louisville, Colorado | USA | AI/ML camera traps consulting IoT terrestrial |
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| Company | Innovasea | designs tech & end-to-end solutions for fish tracking, fish farming/aquaculture intelligence, open ocean & land-based aquaculture | https://www.innovasea.com/ | Bainbridge Island, Washington Baton Rouge, Louisiana Belfast, Maine Boston, Massachusetts Seattle, Washington Bergen Halifax Puerto Varas | USA Norway Canada Chile | data analysis/viz hardware marine/aquatic software tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Internet of Elephants | develop video games to promote conservation awareness, education (makers of Wildeverse, Safari Central, Run wild, Unseen Empire) | https://www.internetofelephants.com/ | Gautam Shah | Mauritius Kenya | education images marine/aquatic networking software terrestrial video |
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| Company | Iridium | delivers reliable, global (only system), weather-resilient, two-way, real-time satellite connectivity to monitor endangered species, wildlife migration patterns, etc.; location-based services, surveillance/alerting, field communications | https://www.iridium.com/markets/wildlife/ | McLean, Virginia (HQ); Tempe, Arizona; Chandler, Arizona; Leesburg, Virginia | USA (HQ) | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | JaiaBots | micro-sized hybrid autonomous surface & subsurface vehicles, designed for shore, manned or unmanned vessel launched operations; software open-source; can include different sensors | https://www.jaia.tech/jaiabot | Ian Estephan Owen & Jason Webster | Newport, Rhode Island | USA | data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Company | Kiwi Track Ltd | manufactures biotelemetry transmitters, receivers, antennas; focus on New Zeal& species | https://kiwitrack.weebly.com/ | Daryl Olsen | Havelock North | New Zealand | data-/bio-logging hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Landscape: Land Conservation Software | comprehensive software solution for land conservation; mobile app for monitoring data collection passes info to flexible web app for acquisition and stewardship project management | https://landconservationsoftware.com/ | Caleb Pourchot | Madison, Wisconsin | United States | data management geospatial GPS mobile app remote sensing software |
| Company | Leopard Tech Labs | develops software & systems to aid scientific surveys & on-the-ground solutions to complex conservation issues; has developed lots of apps for different citizen science and tracking programs | https://leopardtechlabs.com/ | Kerala | India | citizen science education local capacity building mobile app software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Company | Little Leonardo | maker of dataloggers for marine animals; loggers/tags can include environmental & physiological (heart rate, acceleration) sensors; also has videologger, time-scheduled release system | http://l-leo.com/eng/ | Tokyo | Japan | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry video |
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| Company | LobsterLift | helping fishers & right whales coexist; a lineless, self-surfacing, modular lobster trap retrieval system (to reduce whale entanglement) | https://www.lobsterlift.com/ | Cormac Hondros-McCarthy, Ted Zhu | Lowell, Massachusetts | USA | consulting hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Company | Lotek | designs & manufactures fish & wildlife monitoring systems (radio, acoustic, satellite-GPS, Iridium, Argos, Global Star; dataloggers); has acoustic open protocol with European Tracking Network | https://www.lotek.com/ | Wareham Seattle, Washington St John's & Newmarket Havelock North | UK USA Canada New Zealand | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | M.A.P. Scientific Services | developing geospatial solutions for conservation organizations aligned with sustainable development goals; services include GIS analyses, application development, ecological monitoring, data management/analytics, trainings | https://mapss.co.za/ | Dr. Pieter Olivier, Andrew Purdon, Michael Mole | Pretoria | South Africa | consulting data analysis/viz data management education geospatial GPS remote sensing |
| Company | Machines & Dreamland | pioneering World Integration Loop, foundational platform for planet-healing entertainment; platform integrates environmental data with video games in the cloud | http://machinesanddreamland.com/ | Ryan Boudinot | Seattle, Washington | USA | AI/ML climate citizen science data management software |
| Company | Makerbuoy | low cost, solar powered, Arduino-based, open-source drifting buoy with Iridium & GPS integration; shop provides components, kits & assembled units for users requiring inexpensive ocean tracking | https://www.makerbuoy.com/ | data-/bio-logging education GPS hardware marine/aquatic open-source tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Map the Point | offer GIS services for pest/invasive species management, funding management, database organization, long-term management planning | https://mapthepoint.com/ | Sarah Godfrey | consulting data management geospatial GPS software |
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| Company | Mapping for Change | hosts Community Maps, platform for participatory mapping; can create your own or join existing communities; has options for private & non-profit org's | https://mappingforchange.org.uk/ | Louise Francis, Muki Haklay, Chris Church | London | UK | citizen science education geospatial open-source networking software |
| Company | Marine Acoustics Inc. | provide environmental compliance services, conduct marine environmental impact assessments, tests & evaluation | https://marineacoustics.com/ | Dr. William Ellison | Middletown, Rhode Island; Arlington, Virginia; Gales Ferry, CT | USA | bioacoustics consulting data management marine/aquatic |
| Company | Microsensory | makers of wireless sensors, implantable & attached tags; Fauna tag (radio, GSM or GPS transmitters, radio collars); personalized software generates visualizations & analytics; have MyFlight visualization app | https://microsensory.com/en/index.html | C—rdoba, London | Spain, UK | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz GPS hardware mobile app software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Microsoft AI for Earth | leverages cloud & AI tools to help solve global environmental; advance how we monitor, model & manage EarthÕs natural systems; projects include Megadetector, SEEKER app, Planetary Computer, code for classification of species in photos, satellite & aerial imagery, spectrograms (audio); develops API's for these | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-earth | Microsoft | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management geospatial open-source software remote sensing |
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| Company | Microwave telemetry | bird & fish tracking; satellite PTTs; Argos & GSM; ground track transmitter recovery option; Pop-Up/PSAT for fish tags | https://www.microwavetelemetry.com/ | Columbia, Maryland | USA | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Migrate Technology | specialize in design & manufacture of miniature archival light level loggers (geolocators/geologgers), Intigeo brand; weight as low as 0.3g | http://www.migratetech.co.uk/ | Cambridge | UK | data-/bio-logging hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Milsar | wildlife telemetry hardware company; makes GSM & radio tags, nano-GPS telemetry tags - 3.5g; direct radio download to base station or via GSM; solar-paneled tags, accelerometers, TDR sensors | https://milsar.com/ | Romania | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Miromico | telemetry hardware maker; make miro Nomad (GPS tracker with solar power supply); Nomad Light (ultra lightweight 4g); used for tracking birds; LoRaWAN enabled | https://miromico.ch/products/?lang=en | Zurich | Switzerland | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | MOTUS | wildlife tracking system; international collaborative research network that uses coordinated automated radio telemetry to facilitate research & education on the ecology & conservation of migratory animals | https://motus.org/ | Birds Canada | data management GPS remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Moultrie | camera-trap company; prices $45-$55 (refurbished), $70-$120 (new); have great close-out sales & cheap but high-quality refurbished options | https://www.moultriefeeders.com/products/cameras | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | MSeis | manufacturer of marine passive acoustic monitoring recorders - NightHawk series; make remotely-controlled WISDOM data buoys for real-time acoustic monitoring over Wi-Fi; interface with PAMGuard; offer trainings | https://www.mseis.com/services/pam/ | Mark Higginbottom | UK | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging education hardware marine/aquatic software |
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| Company | Muddy | camera trap company ($60-$200); cellular trail cams, solar plug-ins; has app & web interface to program cameras, process images; | https://www.gomuddy.com/muddy-outdoors-trail-cameras/ | Irving, Texas | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Natural Apptitude | specialize in making bespoke, user-focused data collection apps & websites for environmental & socially focused projects; projects include Mammal Mapper, Coreo, Whale Track, MoorAPPS, Barrier Tracker | https://www.natural-apptitude.co.uk/ | Dave Kilbey | UK | citizen science consulting mobile app software |
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| Company | Natural Solutions | build open-source software solutions for protected areas (GeoNature data collection & analysis app & web portal), citizen science/ecotourism (Ecobalade app), urban forestry (ecoTeka platform for tree management) & species conservation (Track software for management of captive breeding) | https://www.natural-solutions.world/ | Olivier Rovellotti | Marseille (HQ) | France | citizen science consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management mobile app open-source remote sensing software |
| Company | NCX | forest carbon market facilitator- Basemap platform as scientific foundation of carbon exchange; connects corporations to landowners, habitats & communities they impact through carbon marketplace; enable carbon credit purchases, help landowners monetize their forests | https://ncx.com/ | San Francisco, California | USA | climate consulting data analysis/viz software geospatial |
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| Company | North Star Tracking | wildlife tracking hardware company - has GPS, GSM, PTT, Globalstar/Iridium units for terrestrial & avian species; collars, backpacks ear tags, etc.; 1-way & 2-way connectivity available; datalogger collars available too | http://www.northstarst.com/ | Oakton, Virginia | USA | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Ocean Acoustics Ltd | global underwater acoustics consultancy; provide scientifically robust underwater noise effects assessments, data analysis services, passive acoustic monitoring, underwater propagation modelling, etc. | https://www.ocean-acoustics.com/about-acoustical-consulting-experts/ | Auckland | New Zealand | bioacoustics consulting data analysis/viz marine/aquatic software |
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| Company | Ocean Instruments | electronic and software design for subsea acoustic monitoring systems; make the SoundTrap hydrophone ($3,100-$5,100) & dbWav acoustic analysis software ($990); | http://www.oceaninstruments.co.nz/ | John Atkins | Auckland | New Zealand | bioacoustics data analysis/viz hardware marine/aquatic |
| Company | Ocean Science Analytics | utilize software tools for oceanic & coastal environments & organisms; have online trainings (on PAMGuard & Ishmael; marine spatial analysis/GIS coming soon) & resources; provide analytics & data science consulting for projects | https://www.oceanscienceanalytics.com/ | Liz Ferguson | San Diego, California | USA | bioacoustics consulting data analysis/viz education events geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
| Company | OpenForests | offer consulting for remote sensing for forests, source aerial imagery, explorer.land (map-based platform to demonstrate impact of a forest project), forest monitoring dashboard to detect deforestation & fire | https://openforests.com/ | Stefan Haas & Dr. Patrick Ribeiro | Krefeld | Germany | climate consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS remote sensing software |
| Company | Opensensing | partner of The Things Network; provide field sensors & environmental data logging tech to generate data that is turned into tailored dashboard; uses IoT, cloud computing, open-source software | https://opensensing.com/ | Brighton | Australia | AI/ML consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management hardware IoT open-source software terrestrial |
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| Company | Ornitela | telemetry hardware maker specializing in wild birds; OrniTrack brands (GPS + sensor tags) with GSM or cell service wireless data transfer; solar-paneled tags ($880-$1300); | https://www.ornitela.com/ | Vilnius | Lithuania | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Outreach Robotics | provide & develop custom aerial solutions for sampling hard-to-reach environments; manufacture & sell DeLeaves tool for collecting foliar samples from canopy; developed Mamba tool to collect plant samples from cliffs | https://www.outreachrobotics.com/ | Guillaume Charron | Sherbrooke/Quebec | Canada | drones/AUV's remote sensing video |
| Company | Overstory | using satellite imagery & AI to analyze vegetation on Earth to prevent wildfires | https://www.overstory.com/ | Indra den Bakker, Anniek Schouten, Roelof Pieters | Amsterdam, Sommerville, Massachusetts | The Netherlands, USA | AI/ML climate consulting data management geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Company | Oxford Nanopore Technologies | developed sensing tech that uses nanopores embedded in high-tech electronics to perform precise molecular analyses with DNA, RNA; real-time genetic analyses, portable devices | https://nanoporetech.com/ | Oxford (HQ), Cambridge, Harwell, New York, Cambridge, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo | UK (HQ), USA, China, Tokyo, Singapore | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Company | Pachama | uses machine learning with satellite imaging to measure carbon captured in forests; used for remote verification & monitoring, new standard of assurance in impact of these investments; on online platform you can review & support forest efforts around the world; integrated with REDD+ | https://pachama.com/ | Diego Saez Gil, Tomas Aftalion | AI/ML climate consulting geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Company | PalmOil.io | for businesses to identify deforestation in their supply chain & track environmental risks from their suppliers | https://palmoil.io | Brooklyn, New York & Arlington, Virginia | USA | consulting software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Company | Pano AI | makers of Pano Rapid Detect, AI platform for fire professionals to quickly detect threats, confirm fires & disseminate information to responders | https://www.pano.ai/ | Sonia Kastner | San Francisco, California | United States | AI/ML climate consulting data management software terrestrial |
| Company | PathTrack Limited | developer of low power GPS tracking products, Fastloc(R), nanoFix(tm) tech; custom-build bio-loggers | https://pathtrack.co.uk/ | West Yorkshire | UK | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Picterra | powering geospatial applications & services with machine learning & MLOps; work on projects to detect palm oil from satellite imagery, detect seals from drone imagery | https://picterra.ch/picterra-industry-applications/forestry-environment/ | Pierrick Poulenas, Frank de Morsier | Chavannes, Lausanne | Switzerland | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz geospatial images remote sensing software |
| Company | PiVa AI | provide R&D services in computer vision & machine learning including image recognition, object detection, image segmentation; work on projects on snake species classification from images, ProBee.cz bee parasite detection system | https://www.piva-ai.com/home | Lukas Picek, Miroslav Valan | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management images software |
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| Company | Pivotal Future | incentivizing regeneration of biodiversity at scale by measuring & translating biodiversity into tradable assets on the Pivotal Nature Exchange | https://www.pivotal.earth/ | Dr. Zoe Balmforth, Cameron Frayling | Cambridge, England | UK | AI/ML bioacoustics camera traps climate consulting data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's funding local capacity building terrestrial |
| Company | PIX4D | photogrammetry software suite for mobile & drone mapping; has flight app, desktop & cloud platforms; has Capture mobile app to plan, fly & get optimized images, Catch app to turn mobile devices into 3D scanners, Scan flight app for inspection of data | https://www.pix4d.com/ | Prilly, Switzerland (HQ), also Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco & Denver (USA), Shanghai & Tokyo | data management drones/AUV's geospatial mobile app remote sensing software |
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| Company | Planet Labs | leading provider of global daily Earth data; has highest-frequency satellite data commercially available; 200+ satellites; has analytics & monitoring dashboard; works with non-profit & private users | https://www.planet.com/ | Will Marshall & Robbie Schingler | San Francisco, California Washington DC Berlin | USA Germany | data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's geospatial networking open-source remote sensing |
| Company | RAKwireless | develops market-oriented & easy-to-use IoT building blocks of MCUs, communication modules & sensors in a modular IoT platform system (uses LoRa, WisBlock, LTE, etc.) | https://www.rakwireless.com/en-us | Shenzhen, Beijing, Xi'an | China | hardware IoT |
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| Company | Raspberry Pi | tiny, affordable single-board computer; org aims to teach computing & digital making skills; has Raspberry Pi Foundation too | https://www.raspberrypi.org/ | Cambridge | UK | AI/ML education events hardware |
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| Company | Reconyx | camera-trap company; prices $400-$700; can set custom focal distance; external power connection options, solar panels; has MapView image processing & management software, mobile app | https://www.reconyx.com/ | Wisconsin | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Remote Sensing Research Centre | makers of SICK compact biomass lidar (non-contact distance measurement sensor, designed for close range); center uses remote sensing data, fieldwork, & spatial models to measure, map & monitor biophysical properties in terrestrial, atmospheric & aquatic environments | https://www.rsrc.org.au/cbl | Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema (University of Queensland) | Queensland | Australia | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial |
| Company | Renoster Systems | develop audio acoustic technology to detect gunshots in the African savannah, & as well as provide data analytic tools to optimize ranger operations | https://www.renostersystems.co/ | Saif Bhatti | Austin, TX | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics consulting data analysis/viz GPS hardware remote sensing software terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
| Company | Ridgetec | camera trap company ($400); cellular, external power options - solar panels; Camera Portal web app for live image viewing | https://ridgetecoutdoors.com/ | Grovetown, Georgia Lethbridge | USA Canada | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | SafetyNet Technologies | makers of Pisces LED Lights (light-emitting device that attracts the fish fishermen mean to catch & repels the ones they donÕt, increasing sustainability of commercial fishing by increasing selectivity & reducing bycatch), CatchCam kit (underwater video camera & app that allows fishermen to see what their fishing gear is doing underwater), Enki (in dev., underwater biologger) | https://sntech.co.uk/ | Dan, Nadia, Aran | London | UK | hardware marine/aquatic mobile app software video |
| Company | Saildrone | leader in ocean-going autonomous surface vehicles; AI enabled, secure data portal; for maritime domain awareness, ocean mapping, ocean data; wind & solar powered; human-pilot controlled remotely; can be deployed for up to 12 months | https://www.saildrone.com/ | Richard Jenkins | Alameda, California | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's marine/aquatic hardware |
| Company | Salo | develops solutions to climate change & biodiversity loss; guides investments in natural climate solutions by leveraging satellite data, ecological modeling & artificial intelligence | https://salo.ai/ | David Marvin, Christopher Anderson | San Francisco, California | USA | AI/ML climate consulting data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing |
| Company | Savannah Tracking Ltd | telemetry/tracking hardware manufacturer; elephant collars, neck collars (GPS, GSM, Iridium, VHF, accelerometers), bird backpacks, giraffe tags; can give mortality SMS alerts; an set up user-defined geofences (& relevant alerts) - LionShield geofence project (light/sounds alarms) | http://www.savannahtracking.com/ | Henrik Barner Rasmussen | Kenya | data-/bio-logging GPS tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Savimbo | carbon credit company paying subsistence farmers directly for preservation & reforestation of their lands; use drone scans for aerial imagery, topographical mapping & 3-D scans; use FAO hand-in-hand geospatial imagery | https://www.savimbo.com/ | Drea Burbank | Austin, Texas | USA | climate drones/AUV's local capacity building mobile app terrestrial |
| Company | ScoutGuard Australia | camera trap retailer; makes their own trail cams too, cellular options that follow Australian telecommunications regulations | http://scoutguard.com.au/ | ScoutGuard Australia | Australia | camera trap hardware images terrestrial |
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| Company | Scubotics | aim to reduce cost/time to monitor coral reefs using AI (coral classification), citizen science, AUVs (w/ video recorders) | https://www.scubotics.com/ | Melbourne, Florida | USA | AI/ML drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry video |
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| Company | Sea-Bird Scientific | world's largest developer/manufacturer of products for measuring ocean parameters (salinity, temperature, etc) & environmental water quality monitoring; includes mooring systems, sensors, data-loggers, water samplers, AUV/ROV sensors | https://www.seabird.com/ | Bellevue, Washington & Philomath, Oregon | USA | climate consulting data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Seiche Marine Acoustic Solutions | manufacturer of towed, shore-cabled & vertical marine autonomous recording units to detect, localize & track vocalizing marine mammals in real-time; have marine mammal monitoring courses & trainings; offer modeling services (acoustic propagation, sound source verification) | https://www.seiche.com/underwater-acoustic-products/acoustic-sensors/towed-pam/ | Devon | UK | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management education events hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Semtech | maker of high-performance analog & mixed signal semiconductors & advanced algorithms; specializing now in IoT, data centers & mobility | https://www.semtech.com/ | Canada, Mexico, USA, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan | AI/ML hardware IoT software |
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| Company | Sensing Clues | data mgmt platform for nature conservation; suite of tools includes Cluey-data collector & tracking app, Focus-data explorer, Wildcat-wildlife conservation analytical toolbox; Wildlife data hub-data analysis & processing | https://sensingclues.org/ | Jan-Kees Schakel | Amsterdam | The Netherlands | data management data analysis/viz software mobile app |
| Company | Sextant Technology Ltd | makers of dataloggers, networked monitoring systems, RFID tags, burrowscopes, ozone analyzer; consult on marine ecological risk assessments | http://www.s-t.co.nz/ | Wellington | New Zealand | consulting data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Single.Earth | works with landowners who commit to keeping their forests intact; developed Ecosystm Integrity Index, uses digital twins in MERIT carbon credit system | https://www.single.earth/ | Merit Valdsalu, Andrus Aaslaid | Telliskivi, Tallinn | Estonia | AI/ML climate consulting data management terrestrial |
| Company | Smart Carte | assess land cover changes in real time & gain insights into the health of protected areas with intuitive land cover classification & change detection tools; provides high-quality 10m imagery; mobile app | https://smartcarte.earth/ | AI/ML geospatial remote sensing |
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| Company | Snyper | camera trap company ($250-$390); has LTE cellular cams | https://www.snyperhuntingproducts.com/ | Mcminnville, Tennessee | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Sofar Ocean | devices, data & apps to enable ocean intelligence at scale; Smart Buoy systems, weather API powered by largest open ocean sensor network, ship route optimization tool; ocean IoT system-distributed sensor platform with integrated solar power, satellite data connectivity & modular sensors | https://www.sofarocean.com/ | Tim Janssen, Evan Shapiro | San Francisco, California | USA | consulting data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz hardware IoT marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
| Company | Solaris Trail Cameras | solar-powered camera trap model ($100), 1 year warranty | http://www.alexanderbraczkowski.com/solaris-trail-cameras-1/solaris-weapon-4k-trail-camera | Alexander Braczkowski | Melbourne | Australia | camera traps hardware |
| Company | Sound Metrics | designs & manufactures imaging sonars (DIDSON, ARIS makers) that can be deployed from vessels, ROVs, AUVs & divers | http://www.soundmetrics.com/ | Bellevue, Washington | USA | data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's geospatial hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Spark Fun | electronic hardware maker; open source components, resource & tutorials; build, test & assemble >400 kits & boards in house; has non-profit arm - Community Partnership Program | https://www.sparkfun.com/ | Nathan Seidle | Niwot, Colorado | USA | education events funding hardware local capacity building networking |
| Company | Spartan | camera trap company ($140-$480); has cellular cams, external battery/solar panel kits; Camera Management mobile & web app | https://spartancamera.com/ | Duluth, Georgia | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Spypoint | camera trap company ($100-$300); have certified pre-owned/refurbished deals; has cellular cams, solar panel/external battery kits; app to manage cameras & photos, view customizable maps, check weather conditions | https://www.spypoint.com/en | Quebec | Canada | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Star-Oddi | makers of biologging tags (implantable tags too), environmental sensing loggers (underwater & terrestrial), accelerometers | https://www.star-oddi.com/ | Gardabaer | Iceland | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | StealthCam | camera trap company ($60-$300); cellular cams; Comm& Pro app - downloads, image filtering, tagging options | https://www.stealthcam.com/ | Irving, Texas | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Swift Geospatial Solutions | online portal providing proactive ecosystem monitoring, user-defined alerts, near real time analytics & imagery, Esri compliant; cloud-based processing; also forestry applications | https://swiftgeospatial.solutions/conservation/ | Pretoria | South Africa | climate consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS remote sensing software |
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| Company | Tactacam | camera trap company ($140-$200); WiFi & cellular options; mobile app to remotely control camera | https://www.tactacam.com/ | Caledonia, Minnesota | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Tator | open-source web platform for analyzing large video & image data collections; lets you rapidly deploy custom analytics workflows to gain insights from raw imagery; data management tools, annotation tools; | https://www.tator.io/ | CVision AI, Inc. | camera traps data analysis/viz data management images open-source software video |
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| Company | Technosmart Europe | manufacture GPS tracking systems for animals (avian, terrestrial & aquatic options); also have accelerometers, TDR sensors, Valve-Trak for bivalves (motion), remote download with UHF & GSM options; make base stations too; tags 1.5g up to 100g | https://www.technosmart.eu/ | Rome | Italy | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Teledyne FLIR | hardware company making devices for thermal imaging, visible-light imaging, video analytics, measurement & diagnostic, & threat detection systems & machine vision cameras | https://www.flir.com/ | dozens of locations worldwide | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz hardware images remote sensing video |
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| Company | Telemetry Solutions | GPS telemetry hardware for wildlife; smallest is 5g; backpacks, collars & implants | https://www.telemetrysolutions.com/ | Quintin Kermeen | Concord, California | USA | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Telenax | wildlife tracking hardware company; VHF, GPS, Iridium options, drop-off mechanisms; sensors for mortality, activity/hibernation, posture, environmental, accelerometer, geofence, | https://telenax.com/ | El Marques | Mexico | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Telonics | wildlife tracking hardware company; uses VHF, GPS, Argos; has options for avian, marine & terrestrial species; programmable collar releases; trapsite & marker beacon transmitters; have species-specific options for anteater, manatee, reptiles, crocodiles, elephants | https://www.telonics.com/index.php | Mesa, Arizona | USA | data-/bio-logging data management GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Terraformation | forest tech/forest accelerator; rapid reforesting; provide tools, training, financing & business support to scale forest restoration projects around the globe | https://www.terraformation.com/ | Yishan Wong | consulting education events |
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| Company | terraPulse | platform to map & monitor large landscapes through satellite-based measurements of forest-, crop-, range- & wildl& productivity | https://www.terrapulse.com/about/index.html#what-we-do-about | Saurabh Channon, Joseph Sexton, Ph.D., Min Feng, Ph.D. | North Potomac, Maryland | USA | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Company | The Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd | partner with businesses to enhance corporate stewardship & sustainability; creating science-based targets, developing 2030 strategies, biodiversity footprinting across value chains, risk-based ecological impact assessment, offsets, etc. | https://www.thebiodiversityconsultancy.com/ | Cambridge | UK | consulting data analysis/viz |
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| Company | The Earth Genome | environmental data analytics organization translating big environmental data to transform decision making | https://www.earthgenome.org/ | California | USA | consulting data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics |
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| Company | Thingy IoT | innovator for IoT devices, low-power & low-cost connectivity; design, development & production of environmental real-time data acquisition & telemetry systems designed to run unattended for long periods in remote locations | https://thingy.us/ | Bellevue, Washington | USA | data management hardware IoT tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Tigrinus | hardware company that makes trail cams, UHF & GPS transmitters/receivers, GSM integration; acoustic recorders | https://www.tigrinus.com.br/ | Santa Catarina | Brazil | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Titley Scientific | wildlife tracking hardware company; collar, backpack, glue on & screw in GPS tracking devices; 0.35g VHF bat trackers | https://www.titley-scientific.com/us/products/wildlife-tracking | Brendale Lancashire Johannesburg Columbia, Missouri | Australia UK South Africa USA | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Trailcam Pro | retailer for camera traps (from diff companies); has reviews, product spec's & tests | https://www.trailcampro.com/ | Rich Howell | Springfield, Missouri | USA | camera trap hardware images education video |
| Company | TRAILMASTER | not active anymore? camera trap company ($210-$700); active & passive IR cams | https://www.trailmaster.com/ | Lenexa, Kansas | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Treeconomy | platform to package & sell carbon offsets on behalf of landownders undertaking reforestation; provides sustainable income stream for landowners & meets growing dem& for carbon offsets | https://www.treeconomy.co/ | Harry Grocott, Robert Godfrey | London | England | AI/ML climate consulting local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial |
| Company | Treeo | voluntary CO2 market app to mobilize small-scale farmers to help reverse climate change by monitoring tree-planting initiatives | https://treeo.org/ | Johanne Schwegler | Stuttgart | Germany | climate education images local capacity building mobile app terrestrial |
| Company | Treevia Forest Technologies | track & increase forest productivity through forestry research, investment; integration with IoT; "turn data into forest intelligence" | https://treevia.com.br/ | S‹o Paolo | Brazil | consulting data analysis/viz geospatial IoT remote sensing software |
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| Company | UAVWILD | low-cost wildlife drone services & imagery production | http://www.uavwild.com | Beth Priday | Bristol | United Kingdom | AI/ML camera trap drones/AUV's geospatial images video |
| Company | Upstream Tech | smart climate solutions for a changing planet; Lens platform to monitor landscapes with aggregated satellite, aerial, environmental data, & collaborative workflow | https://upstream.tech/ | Marshall Moutenot, Alden Keefe Sampson | climate data-/bio-logging education geospatial networking remote sensing software |
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| Company | Urban Sky | remote sensing via the stratospheric Microballoon (microsatellite); delivering broad area, high-resolution aerial imagery at a coast drastically less than satellites, aircraft or drones; maintain archive of regularly imaged urban areas; 10cm GSD 3-b& aerial imagery; $5/sq km | https://urbansky.com/ | Andrew Antonio, Jared Leidich | Denver, Colorado | USA | climate consulting data-/bio-logging geospatial hardware images remote sensing |
| Company | Vectronic Aerospace | makers of GPS collars (Vertex, Survey brands), drop-offs, external sensors (proximity tags, heart rate logger, accelerometer, mortality implants), trap transmitters | https://www.vectronic-aerospace.com/ | Berlin | Germany | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | View into the Blue | connects clients with tech to provide environmental monitoring & data services; specializes in real-time, self-cleaning underwater camera & sensor systems; can do live-streaming, differing lighting systems; environmental & audio sensor integration; devices use AI on the edge | https://www.viewintotheblue.com/ | Trevor Mendelow | Boulder, Colorado | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Vizzuality | data visualization org; works on Global Forest Watch, Resource Watch, Trase, Marxan, Restor, Global Mangrove Watch, Wildlife Insights, Half Earth (from EO Wilson foundation), supply chain transparency | https://www.vizzuality.com/ | Madrid Cambridge Porto | Spain UK Portugal | data analysis/viz data management consulting |
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| Company | Wild Immersion | a virtual reserve; can meet wild animals in their 'natural habitat' with VR films; explore biodiversity with educational games within app; currently has 140 species & 40 countries | https://en.wildimmersion.io/ | France(?) | education mobile app video |
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| Company | Wild Vision Systems | live-trapping system & data platform, powered by artificial intelligence, for effective control of invasive animals | https://www.wildvision.ai/ | Derek Yorks, Benjamin Stookey | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Wildchain | digitally adopt endangered animals via impact NFTs (using blockchain) & support real-world conservation efforts | https://www.wildchain.io/ | Flo Rehm, Arch Wongchindawest | Bangkok | Thailand | climate funding images mobile app |
| Company | Wilder Sensing | AI-enabled software that analyses audio & other data sources to produce actionable insights into the status & trends of biodiversity | https://wildersensing.com/ | Geoffrey Carss | Wedmore, England | UK | AI/ML bioacoustics consulting data analysis/viz remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Company | Wildgame Innovations | camera trap company ($50-$140); Huntsmart mobile app for remotely controlling cameras; have cellular cams | https://www.wildgameinnovations.com/ | Irving, Texas | USA | camera trap hardware images video |
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| Company | Wildlife Acoustics | maker of SongMeters (passive acoustics), Echo (bats); SongMeters ($850), mini ($500), & micro ($250); Kaleidoscope software (free spectrogram viewer, Pro version $400/year for bioacoustic analysis); have grants program, lots of webinars, resource archive, community forums | https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/ | Ian Agranat | Maynard, Massachusetts | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz education funding hardware software terrestrial |
| Company | Wildlife Computers | wildlife telemetry solutions company; makers of the Fastloc GPS; avian, PAT, SPOT, SPLASH, TDR & custom tags; have a tag mgmt portal | https://wildlifecomputers.com/ | Redmond, Washington Havelock North | USA New Zealand | data-/bio-logging data management GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Company | Wildlife Drones | implementing drone tracking solutions - radio tracking, thermal imaging, drone supply, pilot training & licensing; can track up to 40 radio-tagged animals simultaneously | https://wildlifedrones.net/ | Debbie Saunders | Acton | Australia | drones/AUV's education events geospatial hardware images tracking/telemetry |
| Company | Wildlife Materials, Inc | manufacture VHF telemetry antennas, receivers & accessories; transmitters for reptiles, fish, small & large mammals, birds, implantable tags | https://wildlifematerials.com/ | Robert & Linda Hawkins | Murphysboro, Illinois | USA | data-/bio-logging hardware tracking/telemetry |
| Company | WildlifeTek | provide online courses & workshops, consulting & support services, free resources & community; offer specialist thermal imaging services predominantly suitable for bat surveys | https://www.wildlifetek.com/ | Kayleigh Fawcett Williams | camera trap consulting education events hardware images terrestrial |
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| Company | Window to Wildlife | remote wildlife cam install & livestreaming; have installed many popular bald eagle & osprey cams on the internet; can help advise best practices & build out camera systems | https://windowtowildlife.org | Connor O'Brien | Austin, Texas | United States | camera traps consulting IoT images video |
| Company | Xerius Tracking | wildlife monitoring & tracking systems; develops miniturized trackers & data loggers using GPS, Argos, VHF, UHF & GSM technologies; software to connect/manage devices remotely | http://www.xeriustracking.fr/ | Saint Jean | France | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Opportunity | AI for Climate Lightning Talks | Lightning talks by experts about using AI to accelerate humanity's response to climate change | https://www.forclimate.ai/lts | AI/ML events education |
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| Opportunity | AI for the Planet | annual conference & monthly virtual talk series on AI use in environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation, pollution management, air/water quality, & SDGs | https://aifortheplanet.org/en/ | UNESCO, UNEP, Microsoft AI for Earth, startupinside | AI/ML education events networking |
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| Opportunity | ARSET | Applied Remote Sensing Training Program; provides trainings, webinars on remote sensing for conservation & biodiversity | https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/capacity-building/arset | NASA | events education geospatial remote sensing |
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| Opportunity | AudioMoth guide | practical guide to AudioMoths; covers supplies, firmware, configurations, recording, enclosures, deployment, data mgmt & data analysis | https://github.com/rhine3/audiomoth-guide/blob/master/guide.md | Tessa Rhinehart | bioacoustics education hardware |
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| Opportunity | Bioacoustics Datasets List | A list of bioacoustics datasets that are easily accessible & downloadable, repositories | https://bioacousticsdatasets.weebly.com/ | Justin Salamon (Adobe) | bioacoustics data management open-source |
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| Opportunity | Bioacoustics software guide | list of software packages for bioacoustic analyses; split into platforms for acoustic localization, extracting parameters; detection & classification; manual review & annotation; general listening/viewing | https://github.com/rhine3/audiomoth-guide/blob/master/resources/analysis-software.md | Tessa Rhinehart | AI/ML bioacoustics education software |
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| Opportunity | Camera trap & machine learning info | resources on camera trap systems using ML, GitHub repos about ML for camera traps, info on smart camera traps, manual labeling tools, post-hoc analysis tools, camera trap ML papers, data sources | https://agentmorris.github.io/camera-trap-ml-survey/ | Dan Morris | camera traps data analysis/viz data management education images software |
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| Opportunity | Camera Trap Analysis Methods Comparison table | compares known camera trap solutions that aid with detection & species classification; summarizes key features that would aid the typical workflow for an ecologist | https://www.notion.so/Camera-Trap-Pipeline-Solution-Comparison-2eac80825c4941b0b2b5fad3daea1cc3 | Petar Gyurov | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz data management education images software |
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| Opportunity | CamTrakker | camera trap buying guides, product reviews, blog | https://www.camtrakker.com/ | camera trap education hardware images video |
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| Opportunity | Climate Base | discover jobs, people, & organizations working to solve the climate crisis | https://climatebase.org/ | Justin Hardin, Evan Hynes | education funding jobs networking |
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| Opportunity | Climate Tech job board | list of companies that hire technical roles focused on geospatial & climate tech | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/running-list-200-companies-hiring-geospatial-roles-ali-ahmadalipour/ | Ali Ahmadalipour | climate geospatial jobs |
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| Opportunity | ClimatEU | climate-related job board and networking platform for investors, companies & talent | https://www.climateu.earth/ | Tim Steppich | climate funding jobs networking |
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| Opportunity | CompSust Doctorate Consortium | focuses on computational methods for balancing environmental, economic & societal needs for a sustainable future | http://www.compsust.net/compsust-2020/ | Cornell University | Ithaca, New York | USA | academic lab data analysis/viz education events jobs |
| Opportunity | Computer Vision Methods for Ecology school | 3-week intensive summer school teaching computer vision methods for ecology, seeking to empower ecologists to accurately & efficiently analyze large image, audio, or video datasets using computer vision | https://cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ | California Technical University | Pasadena, California | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management education events funding images networking video |
| Opportunity | Copernicus Open Acces Hub | provides complete, free & open access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 & Sentinel-5P user products; access to mission data through interactive GUI (graphic user interface) | https://scihub.copernicus.eu/ | Copernicus Data & Information Access Services (DIAS), European Space Agency | geospatial images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Opportunity | CubeSat | facilitating easy access to space; has developer resources, webinars & online workshops | https://www.cubesat.org/ | Cal Polytech, San Luis Obispo, Stanford's Space Systems Dev Lab | education events geospatial hardware remote sensing software |
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| Opportunity | Data Science for Social Good Fellowship | May-August fellowship with a number of environmental data science project options. | https://www.dssgfellowship.org/ | Carnegie Mellow University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | USA | academic lab AI/ML climate data analysis/viz data management education jobs |
| Opportunity | DataKind | matches up data scientist volunteers with nonprofits who need their help | https://www.datakind.org/ | Jake Porway | education data analysis/viz networking |
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| Opportunity | Develop for Good | pairs, trains & supports student volunteers as they develop technical product solutions for nonprofits; has grants program to apply for technical help | https://www.developforgood.org/ | education funding hardware networking software |
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| Opportunity | Dinacon | combines interaction design & field biology; ÒunconferenceÓ format where the daily activities are led by the participants; 3 basic requirements for participating: make something, document & share it publicly, get recorded feedback from other participants; have catalogue of previous projects; 2022 in Sri Lanka | https://www.2022.dinacon.org/ | DIgital Naturalism Laboraties (Dinalab) | education events networking hardware marine/aquatic open-source software terrestrial |
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| Opportunity | Earth Hacks | harness the power of hackathons to develop student-driven solutions to the climate crisis; run environmental hackathons; has database of past solutions & results of previous events | https://earthhacks.io/ | Sanjana Paul | Claymont, Delaware | USA | AI/ML climate citizen science data analysis/viz education events software |
| Opportunity | EcoExplore | Experiences Promoting Learning Outdoors for Research & Education; incentive-based citizen science program for children in grades K-8 | https://www.ecoexplore.net/ | North Carolina Arboretum | North Carolina | USA | citizen science education events images |
| Opportunity | ESRI foundation | focus on analyzing & sharing data to advance SDG's; develop geospatial solutions for non-profits pro bono | https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/sustainability/overview | ESRI | data analysis/viz education geospatial networking remote sensing |
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| Opportunity | Ethical Tech Job Boards List | spreadsheet of a bunch of job boards for tech folks | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dFVoF6f9VU5pjaGhyyvQaBN0n6ae-iLCtlvsO1N2jhA/htmlview#gid=0 | Ted Fickes, Edward Saperia | jobs | ||
| Opportunity | Fish Tech Groups | directory of fisheries tech organizations, projects & initiatives | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G4XX7WB5dt4D5SFQmecEKVk2xSDRxWVpPOgTDHZf9-M/edit#gid=1907083143 | Kate Wing | education hardware marine/aquatic networking software |
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| Opportunity | FishOASIS Underwater Camera | instructions on how to build an underwater optical imaging system for capturing images in low-light aquatic habitats using only ambient light | https://github.com/cpagniel/FishOASIS/ | Camille Pagniello | bioacoustics camera trap hardware images IoT marine/aquatic open-source |
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| Opportunity | Geolocation analysis guide | light-level geolocation analysis guide with code, examples, & tutorials for different open source software tools | https://geolocationmanual.vogelwarte.ch/index.html | Lisovski S et al (full author list: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.13036) | education data analysis/viz geospatial open-source |
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| Opportunity | Hack for Nature | events, hackathons, webinars, challenges for those from all backgrounds to protect biodiversity through use of new tech | https://www.hackfornature.com/ | education events hardware jobs networking software |
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| Opportunity | Idea WILD | gives small equipment grants ($1,500) to conservation professionals | https://ideawild.org/ | Fort Collins, Colorado | USA | funding hardware local capacity building |
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| Opportunity | Instructables | community for people who like the make things; gives step-by-step instruction guides for thousands of projects, including circuits & electronics; users can post their own guides to add to the platform | https://www.instructables.com/ | MIT Media Lab, Squid Labs | education hardware open-source |
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| Opportunity | iWildCam | annual Kaggle competition developing models to classify species & count individual animals across sequences in camera trap datasets | https://github.com/visipedia/iwildcam_comp | Sara Beery, Elijah Cole, Oisin Mac Aodha, Vighnesh Birodkar | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz events images terrestrial |
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| Opportunity | Kaggle Competitions | a huge number of tasks in all different fields - anyone can compete to build the best machine learning model for any of these datasets | https://www.kaggle.com/competitions | Anthony Goldbloom, Ben Hamner | fAI/ML data analysis/viz events funding networking software |
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| Opportunity | KDD Conservation Workshop | annual conference; usually has workshop related to conservation tech; 2020 talk recordings up | https://www.kdd.org/kdd2020/special-days/earth-day | Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining | data analysis/viz events |
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| Opportunity | Keeling Curve Prize | award $25,000 to 2 climate solutions annually; projects in 5 categories: Capture & Utilization, Energy, Finance, Social & Cultural Pathways, & Transport & Mobility | https://www.globalwarmingmitigationproject.org/about-kcp | The Global Warming Mitigation Project | Aspen, Colorado | USA | climate funding |
| Opportunity | NatureTech Jobs | job board for nature & tech positions | naturetech.io | Jonathan Clegg | Bristol | United Kingdom | jobs |
| Opportunity | Open Sustainable Technology | curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity & natural resources; lists datasets, software packages, etc. | https://opensustain.tech/ | climate education geospatial open-source remote sensing software |
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| Opportunity | Pacific Ocean Sound Recordings | passive acoustic data (sound recordings) from a deep-ocean environment off central California; continuous from July 2015; archived on AWS | https://registry.opendata.aws/pacific-sound/ | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | bioacoustics data management marine/aquatic open-source |
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| Opportunity | Portable Genomics | an overview of portable genetic & eDNA technologies, glossary if new to genomics or need refresher & a roadmap for figuring out which steps not to forget when planning experiments; fieldwork equipment checklist, etc. | https://www.portablegenomics.org/ | Ineke Knot | eDNA/genetics education marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
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| Opportunity | Rainforest Tech Primer | an intro to using tech to monitor & share information on rainforest issues, l& rights & indigenous rights; designed as starting point for organizations/activists interested in adding technology to improve their advocacy work; includes apps, satellite imagery resources, audio/video tools | https://library.theengineroom.org/rainforest-tech/ | The Engine Room, Rainforest Foundation Norway | data-/bio-logging data management education images local capacity building mobile app open-source remote sensing terrestrial video |
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| Opportunity | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Summer Student Fellowships | undergraduate summer fellowship opportunities. Have included conservation tech projects in the past. Population Sustainability research opportunity specifically mentions working in the Conservation Technology Lab | https://science.sandiegozoo.org/opportunities/summer-student-fellowships | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance | San Diego, California | USA | bioacoustics eDNA/genetics education images jobs software |
| Opportunity | SANBI Online Resources | has atlases, infobases & resource documents on South African flora & fauna monitoring data (GIS tool, invasive plant tracker, journal article database, species statuses & occurrence records, l& degradation map, SeaKeys (mapping marine biodiversity), | https://www.sanbi.org/resources/ | South African National Biodiversity Institute | South Africa | data management education geospatial GPS local capacity building marine/aquatic open-source software terrestrial |
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| Opportunity | Satellites for Biodiversity Award | supporting conservation projects where high-res satellite imagery can provide solutions to protect & restore wildlife & habitats; winners receive access to imagery from Airbus PlŽiades Neo (30cm resolution), PlŽiades (50cm) & $5,000 funding | https://connectedconservation.foundation/news/satellites-for-biodiversity-award/ | Connected Conservation Foundation, Airbus Foundation | funding geospatial GPS images open-source remote sensing |
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| Opportunity | SeaPerch | STEM education & underwater robotics program that equips students/educators with resources to build an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV); students can showcase their designs in competitions | https://seaperch.org/ | RoboNation | Arlington, Virginia | USA | education events hardware marine/aquatic |
| Opportunity | Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop | annual workshop as part of ICML (2020 webinars recorded & online) | https://www.climatechange.ai/events/icml2021 | International Conference on Machine Learning | climate events AI/ML |
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| Opportunity | Tech Jobs for Good | helps organizations working on social & environmental issues hire tech talent looking for purposeful work | https://techjobsforgood.com/ | Noah Hart | jobs | ||
| Opportunity | Tech Matters | facilitates collaboration to solve social problems using tech; help social change leaders underst& what tech can & can't do & build tech solutions to solve social problems; one of their projects is Terraso - tech partner in 1000 landscapes for 1 billion people | https://techmatters.org/ | Jim Fruchterman (Benetech) | AI/ML climate education hardware networking |
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| Opportunity | Tech Tutors webinars | short lectures/tutorials/walk-throughs about different conservation tech topics followed by interactive Q&A | https://www.wildlabs.net/resources/tech-tutors/wildlabs-tech-tutors-season-3 | WILDLABS | events education hardware networking software |
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| Opportunity | Techstars Sustainability Accelerator | seek out for-profit entrepreneurs with commercially viable technologies that can rapidly solve conservation challenges globally; mentorship-driven accelerator program connects conservationists, corporate partners, investors & conservationists | https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/technology-and-innovation/techstars-sustainability-accelerator/ | The Nature Conservancy | Boulder, Colorado | USA | climate education events funding networking |
| Opportunity | The ARK | global business network, professional development & data platform for wildlife conservation organisations, investors, donors, scientists, projects & technology providers | https://theark.co/ | data management funding jobs local capacity building networking software |
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| Opportunity | Using AI for camera trap data guide | guide to using existing AI user interfaces for processing camera trap imagery; includes instructions for Wildlife Insights, MegaDetector, MLWIC2 & Conservation AI | https://ai-camtraps.netlify.app/index.html | Juliana Velez, John Fieberg | AI/ML camera traps education images |
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| Opportunity | WildCo camera trap data & R guide | reproducible camera trap data exploration & analysis examples in R; guide to using existing image analysis frameworks with camera trap data | https://bookdown.org/c_w_beirne/wildCo-Data-Analysis/ | WildCo Lab, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz education images R/Rstudio |
| Opportunity | Work on Climate | Slack community for people serious about climate work; find climate jobs, build climate companies, network with people. | https://workonclimate.org/ | Eugene Kirpichov, Cassandra Xia, Eva Illescas | climate funding jobs networking |
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| Opportunity | Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences | 3rd annual NOAA workshop open to the public - September 13-17 | https://2021noaaaiworkshop.sched.com/info | NOAA | USA | AI/ML events |
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| Opportunity | Zooniverse | data labeling for all kinds of different scientific projects - fun way that folks at any level can directly contribute to scientific research in many different fields | https://www.zooniverse.org/ | Chris Lintott, Lucy Fortson | camera trap data management geospatial images remote sensing software video |
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| Organization | 4 Earth Intelligence | gather evidence-based intelligence through geospatial data & analystics; aimed at creating actionable & understandable insights for different applications | https://www.4earthintelligence.com/ | Bristol | UK | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz geospatial software |
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| Organization | Abalobi | enabling sustainable small-scale fishing communities globally through modular technology ecosystem; apps & software for logging intake, catch monitoring, traceability/supply chain transparency, data dashboards, digital market; e-learning modules & project development resources for fishers; run Fish with a Story initiative | https://abalobi.org/ | Nicolaas Waldeck, Serge Raemaekers, Abongile Ngqongwa | South Africa | data management education local capacity building marine/aquatic mobile app software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Allen Coral Atlas | global coral mapping initiative; leads Coral Reef Watch; develops habitat maps; has bleaching monitoring system via satellite imagery; measures environmental variable layers (bathymetry, turbidity, etc.) | https://allencoralatlas.org/ | NatGeo, University of Queensland, Vulcan, Planet, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science | data analysis/viz geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | building AI for the common good; Vulcan environmental tech projects (e.g., EarthRanger, SkyLight) moved here in 2021 | https://allenai.org/ | Seattle, Washington | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics images marine/aquatic software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Amazon Conservation Team StoryMaps | map-driven digital storytelling using ArcGIS Story maps; data visualization tool; story maps on Guiana Shield region, indigenous communities, community mapping, threats (deforestation, mining) | https://www.amazonteam.org/storytelling-maps/ | Amazon Conservation Team | data analysis/viz geospatial images |
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| Organization | Amibio | Automatic Acoustic Monitoring & Inventorying of Biodiversity; constructs & deploys autonomous multi-sensor monitoring stations & automatically analyze their transmitted measurements for long-term monitoring of biodiversity activity; deploying a prototype hardware system; <0.5 sq m & solar-panel-powered | https://www.amibio-project.eu/ | bioacoustics data-/bio-loggingg data analysis/viz hardware remote sensing |
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| Organization | AMMOD | automated multisensor station for monitoring species diversity; based in Germany; in testing now | https://ammod.de/ | Germany | bioacoustics camera trap data-/bio-loggingg hardware |
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| Organization | AniBOS: Animal Bourne Observation System | AniBOS (Animal Borne Ocean Sensors), an emerging network of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), provides freely available oceanographic measurements across the hard-to-reach worldÕs polar & tropical oceans collected through bio-logging, the deployment of sensors on marine animals | https://anibos.com/about/ | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic open-source |
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| Organization | Aqueduct | tools to identify & evaluate water risks around the world (e.g., floods, droughts) using open-source, peer reviewed data; has Water Risk Atlas & country rankings; Food map to identify how water risks factor into food security | https://www.wri.org/aqueduct/ | WRI | data analysis/viz geospatial marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Arduino | open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware & software; Arduino board can liaise with many sensors; use software to tell Arduino what to do by writing code & using development environment | https://www.arduino.cc/ | data analysis/viz education hardware open-source software |
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| Organization | ArduPilot | open source autopilot system supporting drones/AUVs & other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); source code developed & maintained by community or professionals & enthusiasts; has online trainings & events too | https://ardupilot.org/ | Chris Anderson, Jordi Munoz | drones/AUV's education events hardware open-source software |
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| Organization | Arribada Initiative | co-develops open, customisable & impact-driven conservation technologies; makers of Horizon developer kit datalogging board (with GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometer, 3G cellular, Argos ARCTIC transmitter); sea-to-source expedition tracking ocean plastic; creating thermal camera system to automatically detect the thermal signature of polar bears to alert local response teams to their presence | https://arribada.org/ | Cheshire | UK | camera trap data-/bio-logging education geospatial GPS hardware IoT marine/aquatic open-source terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Atlantic White Shark Conservancy | maintains Sharktivity app (helps experts track individual sharks & shark sightings); White Shark logbook acoustic app; Gills Club educational app | https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/ | Megan Winton | Chatham, Massachusetts | USA | bioacoustics education mobile app marine/aquatic |
| Organization | AtlantOS | Atlantic Ocean Observing System; supports the evolution & implementation of the system as a contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System & the GEO Blue Planet initiative; focusing on research areas: carbon uptake, coastal disaster risk reduction, ecosystem assessment, blue economy/food security, safety at sea | http://atlantos-ocean.org/ | Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance, All-Atlantic Research Alliance, KDM, Blue Planet, GEO | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz events local capacity building marine/aquatic networking remote sensing |
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| Organization | Australian Acoustic Observatory | A2O; national acoustic observaotry, currently at 90 sites; continental-scale acoustic sensor network; data stored on cloud; use Frontier Lab ARUs; data freely accessible in cloud | https://acousticobservatory.org/ | Birdlife Australia, QUT Ecoacoustics Group | bioacoustics data management hardware networking terrestrial |
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| Organization | AZTI | scientific & technology center aligned with the UN SDG goals - specializing in climate change, marine ecosystems, sustainable fisheries, & food solutions & security. | https://www.azti.es/en/ | çngel Borja - Scientific Director | Sukarrieta, Pasaia, Derio | Spain | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz drones/AUV's eDNA/genetics geospatial images marine/aquatic software tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | BearID Project | developing face recognition software for use in wildlife monitoring, starting with individually identifying grizzly bears from camera trap images | http://bearresearch.org/ | Melanie Clapham, Ed Miller (Arm) | AI/ML camera trap images software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Big Cat Brother | building smart connected devices to avoid unwanted human-jaguar conflict; also publishes information on how to build smart connected devices for conservation | https://dnnacgm11.wixsite.com/bigcatbrother | Carlos Gustavo Merolla | Argentina | AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap data-/bio-logging education GPS hardware IoT local capacity building software |
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| Organization | Biodiversity Genomics Europe | accelerating use of genomics to enhance understanding of biodiversity, monitor biodiversity change & guide interventions; combining BIOSCAN-Europe & European Reference Genome Atlas | https://biodiversitygenomics.eu/ | Leiden | the Netherlands | data management eDNA/genetics |
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| Organization | Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) | international collaboration among the creators, managers & users of biodiversity information & to promote wider & more effective dissemination & knowledge sharing; standards include Darwin Core, Audobon Core, Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions; have open-access journal, host conferences | https://www.tdwg.org/ | San Francisco, California | USA | data management education events networking |
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| Organization | BioDT | Biodiversity Digital Twin; prototype provides advanced models for simulation & prediction capabilities, through practical use cases addressing critical issues related to global biodiversity dynamics | https://biodt.eu/ | AI/ML data analysis/viz |
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| Organization | BIOPAMA | Biodiversity & Protected Areas Management; assists African, Caribbean & Pacific countries address their priorities for improved management & governance of biodiversity & natural resources; has funding arm, observatories system & protected area management platform | https://biopama.org/ | IUCN, JRC of European Commission | data management education funding local capacity building remote sensing |
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| Organization | BlueGreen Labs | dedicated to making sense of oceans of data & solving data driven environmental questions; combined expertise in remote sensing, ecological modeling, field surveys, data science & rescue to provide end-to-end research & development solutions | https://bluegreenlabs.org/ | Elizabeth Kearsley, Koen Hufkens, Lyndon Kearsley | Melsele | Belgium | climate data analysis/viz geospatial GPS hardware images remote sensing software |
| Organization | Bonn challenge barometer | universally applicable, systematic framework for identifying, assessing & tracking action of global restoration commitments; considers success factors & results & benefits; currently being trialed in 30 countries | https://infoflr.org/bonn-challenge-barometer | InfoFLR (IUCN) | consulting data management software |
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| Organization | Camelot | camera trap image processing/organization; can download on Mac, PC, Linux; species database for image classification; good documentation, data privacy options; integrates with PRESENCE & camtrapR; multi-user options, metadata error checking feature; can bulk upload, 2 million datasets on it now | https://camelotproject.org/ | Heidi Hendry, Chris Mann | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management images software |
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| Organization | CarbonMapper | locating, quantifying & tracking methane leaks & CO2 emissions from air & space | https://carbonmapper.org/ | Greenbrae, California | USA | climate geospatial remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | CarbonPlan | non-profit that analyzes climate solutions, builds open tools/resources for evaluation & deployment of them, improving transparency & scientific integrity of carbon removal | https://carbonplan.org | California | USA | climate consulting data analysis/viz open-source software |
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| Organization | Center for AI | researchers inside & outside of NOAA interested in using AI for the environment | https://www.noaa.gov/topic-tags/artificial-intelligence | NOAA | AI/ML data analysis/viz marine/aquatic |
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| Organization | Center for Conservation Innovation | lead & collaborate on research on conservation laws & policies, develop new tech to collect & communicate actionable conservation data, advocate for science policy; maintain open data portal with code, repo's geospatial data & other documents | https://defenders-cci.org/ | Defenders of Wildlife | data management geospatial marine/aquatic networking terrestrial |
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| Organization | Centre for AI and Climate | organization focused on advancing applicaiton of data science & AI to accelerate action on climate change | https://www.c-ai-c.org/ | UK | AI/ML data analysis/viz climate software |
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| Organization | Cetalingua Project | citizen science platform to enable deep learning research focused on gaining a greater understanding of cetacean communication | https://cetalingua.com/ | Natalija Lace | AI/ML bioacoustics citizen science education marine/aquatic software |
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| Organization | Chorus Acoustics | dedicated to listening to marine ecosystems for conservation & sustainable development; operate underwater recorders & have developed data anlaysis software | https://chorusacoustics.com/ | Cedric Gervaise, Julie Lossent | Grenoble | France | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management hardware marine/aquatic software |
| Organization | Climate Engine | on-dem& cloud computing & visualization of climate & remote sensing data for decision support related to drought, water use, agriculture, wildfire, & ecology | http://climateengine.org/ | Justin Huntington - Desert Research Initiative & John Abatzoglou - UC Merced | Reno, Nevada; Merced, California | USA | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) | harnessing satellites & AI to advance green house gas emissions monitoring through direct observation & open data | https://www.climatetrace.org/ | Al Gore, CarbonPlan, Carbon Tracker, Earthrise Alliance, Hudson Carbon, OceanMind, Rocky Mountain Institute, Watt Time, Blue Sky Analytics, Hypervine | AI/ML climate remote sensing |
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| Organization | Connected Conservation | NGO bringing tech companies together to design, deploy & fund enabling network infrastructure for protected areas, including point to multi-point WiFi, LoRaWan, digital radios, cameras, sensors & operations hardware; enables threat detection, species monitoring & conservation operations | http://www.connectedconservation.foundation | NTT, Dimension Data and Cisco | UK (HQ) South Africa Kenya Botswana Indonesia | AI/ML camera trap consulting drones/AUV's funding geospatial GPS hardware IoT local capacity building networking remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Conservation Biology Institute | provide technical tools for conservation (geospatial data/analyses, conservation planning & management, statistical analyses, consulting, training), host bespoke decision support tools; host Data Basin (https://databasin.org/) - mapping & analysis platform; | https://consbio.org/ | Corvallis, Oregon | United States | climate consulting data analysis/viz data management education geospatial marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Conservation Drones | platform to share knowledge of building & using low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles for conservation-related applications; build local capacity | https://conservationdrones.org/ | Lian Pin Koh, Serge Wich | Australia USA Switzerland UK | drones/AUV's education hardware local capacity building |
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| Organization | Conservation Science Partners Analytics Lab | develop & prototype software, computation environments & data products to monitor l& use, analyze ecosystems, develop climate change projections, etc. | https://analytics-lab.org/ | HQ in California (other US offices as well) | USA | climate consulting data analysis/viz geospatial software |
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| Organization | Conservation Technology Information Center | promotes, supports & provides information on conservation technologies & sustainable agricultural systems | https://ctic.org/ | Mike Kromp (director) | West Lafayette, Indiana | USA | climate consulting education terrestrial |
| Organization | ConservationAI | detecting & classifying animals, evidence of illegal activity from pictures & thermal images collected by camera traps, drones (can use 3/4G comm's for real-time monitoring); upload data to site, models (TensorFlow) automatically run them & give you analytics dashboard | http://www.conservationai.co.uk | Paul Fergus, Serge Wich, Carl Chalmers, Steven Longmore | UK | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz drones/AUV's images remote sensing software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | ConservationX Labs | open source conservation tech projects; makers of Sentinel system: add-on to tech that facilitates embedded ML; NABIT - h& held device that compaes DNA sample to Barcode of Life Database; online makerspace community; launch lots of 'grand' challenge competitions; conservation curriculum toolkit (education) | https://conservationxlabs.com/ | Alex Dehgan, Paul Bunje | Washington DC & Seattle, Washington | USA | AI/ML camera trap data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics education funding hardware networking software |
| Organization | Conservify | making tools & technologies for conservationists & communities; makers of FieldKit datalogger | http://conservify.org/ | Shah Selbe | Los Angeles, California | USA | data-/bio-logging education hardware marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | Cos4cloud | project to boost citizen science technologies, improve citizen observatories; integrated with European Open Science Cloud; works with iSpot, Pl@netNet, Artportalen, Natusfera; facilitating networking between platforms, hosting bioblitzes, datathons, etc | https://cos4cloud-eosc.eu/ | EU Horizon | bioacoustics citizen science data-/bio-logging education events images networking video |
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| Organization | COVERAGE | provide improved, integrated & more seamless access to inter-agency, multivariate satellite data for sea surface temperature, ocean vector winds, ocean surface topography, ocean color radiometry | https://coverage.ceos.org/ | NASA, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, California Institute of Technology | data management geospatial marine/aquatic open-source |
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| Organization | CSIC | maintains open, online portals of monitoring data; has global change observatory that uses indices & indicators to assess status of the habitat | http://icts.ebd.csic.es/global-change-observatory | Do–ana Biological Reserve (Huelva & Sevilla) | Spain | climate data-/bio-logging data management open-source software terrestrial |
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| Organization | ctrees | platform to track carbon in every tree & forest on the planet; global monitoring system for robust carbon accounting | https://ctrees.org/ | Sassan Saatchi, Philippe Ciais, Martin Brandt, Phil Decola, Rasmus Fensholt, Jean-Pierre Wigneron | Pasadena, California | USA | AI/ML climate consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | DaRT | Data Reporting Tool for MEAs; provides private & secure national working spaces for national reporting to biodiversity-related conventions; provides framework of interrelated global & regional goals/targets; can collect & organize info, doc's for national reporting; store/archive info securely for long-term use; share info among collaborators | https://dart.informea.org/ | UN Environment Program & InforMEA | consulting data management networking software |
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| Organization | Deep Voice Foundation | implementing acoustic-based AI tools for marine mammals to fill in gaps for populations that have not been sufficiently researched. Initially focused on humpback whales in Mozambique. | https://www.deepvoicefoundation.com/ | Michael Faran | AI/ML bioacoustics marine/aquatic |
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| Organization | Development Seed | engineering & product company accelerating application of accessible geospatial analysis (Cloud Geo), planetary AI, etc. to make evidence-based decisions that benefit the planet | https://developmentseed.org/ | Washington DC Lisbon Ayacucho | USA Portugal Peru | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz geospatial hardware remote sensing software |
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| Organization | DINALAB (Digital Naturalism Laboratories) | jungle prototyping studio for biologists to build their own experimental tools, help designers explore new interactions with nature, & discover new ways of experiencing the natural world. | https://www.dinalab.net/ | Kitty Kelly, Andy Quitmeyer | Soberania Rain Forest, Gamboa | Panama | academic lab bioacoustics camera trap citizen science data analysis/viz education hardware images local capacity building mobile app networking open-source software |
| Organization | dob ecology | programs focus on forests & wetlands in Africa & South Africa; 4 themes - restoration of damaged ecosystems, connection of fragmented habitats, connection with local communities, new analysis methods | https://www.dobecology.nl/ | Veesen | the Netherlands | data analysis/viz local capacity building marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Organization | DOSITS (Discovery of Sound in the Sea) | educational resource hub for decision makers, scientists, educators, & more to learn about sound underwater. They offer webinar series, databases of sounds, archived educational videos, tutorials & many other resources for anyone to view. | https://dosits.org/ | The University of Rhode Island, Inner Space Center, Inspire Environmental, NSF, Office of Naval Research, NOAA | South Kingstown, Rhode Island | USA | bioacoustics education events marine/aquatic networking open-source |
| Organization | Dryad | provides ultra-early fire detection as well as health & growth monitoring solutions for public & private forests; uses Silvanet - large-scale IoT network wish solar-powered sensor nodes, that connect to LoRa distributed gateways; use cloud computing for ulta-early detection of forest fires during smoldering phase | https://www.dryad.net/ | Berlin & Eberswalde | Germany | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz geospatial hardware IoT remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | DynAIkon | AI tools for biodiversity monitoring - analytical (computer vision, image object detection), augmenting (annotating), learning (machine learning algorithms); specializes in movement & gesture recognition & description | https://dynaikon.com/ | London | UK | AI/ML data analysis/viz images software |
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| Organization | Earth Species Project | open-source collaborative & nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal communication | https://www.earthspecies.org/ | Aza Raskin, Britt Selvitelle, Katie Zacarian | bioacoustics open-source |
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| Organization | EarthRanger | protected area management platform, real-time data processing from ranger patrols, remote imaging, sensors; used to respond to threats, track animal movements, underst& l& use change | https://earthranger.com/ | Vulcan/Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | Seattle, Washington | USA | camera trap data analysis/viz data management geospatial images local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | eBioAtlas | creating global atlas of life for Earth's rivers & wetlands using eDNA; interfaces with IUCN RedList & GBIF, freely available | https://ebioatlas.org/ | NatureMetrics, IUCN | data management eDNA/genetics marine/aquatic software |
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| Organization | Ecosystem Service Opportunities | guidelines for selecting & planning policy & financing instruments to conserve ecosystems & enhance sustainable livelihoods | http://www.es-opportunities.net | Julian Rode | Leipzig | Germany | consulting |
| Organization | enviroLENS | Copernicus for law enforcement; ready-to-access evidence of environmental incidences & legal violations, eLENS alert system | https://envirolens.eu/ | GeoVille, IUCN, Sinergise, DLA Piper, AI Lab | geospatial local capacity building remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Evidensia | effort to make credible evidence about impacts & effectiveness of market-based sustainability approaches accessible to inform policy & practice | https://www.evidensia.eco/ | WWF, Rainforest Alliance, iseal | consulting software data management |
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| Organization | Eye on Earth | convergence of initiatives by different org's to collectively address global challenge of increasing access to info & improving decision making to support sustainable development | https://eye-on-earth.net/ | consulting data analysis/viz networking |
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| Organization | Field Papers | tool for digitizing field notes/annotations; make an atlas & print, take into the field & mark up, upload photo's of pages/atlas ("snapshots"), & it integrates with atlas it came from; don't need GPS/GIS skills | http://fieldpapers.org/ | Stamen Design, USAID | data management software |
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| Organization | FieldKit | accessible & scientifically validated open source environmental sensors, datalogger, Android/iOS app, data visualization/conversation platform | FieldKit.org | Conservify, Shah Selbe | Los Angeles, California | USA | AI/ML climate citizen science data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management hardware IoT marine/aquatic mobile app open-source software terrestrial |
| Organization | Flash Forest | developing tech for drone-based, automated reforestation | https://flashforest.ca/ | Bryce Jones, Angelique Ahlstrom, Cameron Jones | Toronto | Canada | drones/AUV's hardware tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | ForestMind | combines knowledge & expertise from agricultural & sustainability specialists, Earth observation data & isotopic analysis to help food retailers & producers eliminate products that have caused deforestation in food supply chains | https://sa.catapult.org.uk/projects/forestmind/ | Catapult Satellite Applications | Didcot, Oxfordshire | UK | AI/ML consulting geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | Foundations of Success | promote learning & collaboration in conservation community through conservation management framework | https://fosonline.org/ | Richard Margoluis, Nick Salafsky, Janice Davis | Europe, USA & Latin America branches | USA Uruguay the Netherlands | data management education funding networking software |
| Organization | Freestation | uses open source hardware, software & 3-D printing to build & deploy reliable, low-cost DIY environmental data loggers; sensors include fog gauges, wind driven rain gauges, soil moisture probes, water level sensors, etc. | http://www.freestation.org | Mark Mulligan (King's College London), AmbioTEK CIC | London | UK | academic lab data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education hardware IoT local capacity building open-source software |
| Organization | FruitPunch AI for Wildlife Lab | builds a community of AI engineers to engage in challenges related to machine learning projects for biodiversity protection | https://www.fruitpunch.ai/labs/ai-for-wildlife-lab | Fruitpunch AI | AI/ML bioacoustics camera traps software |
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| Organization | GeoKey | provides server-side components to run participatory mapping projects; can create custom data structures; integrate pictures & videos with maps; access data via open REST API for data collection, visualization & analysis; can manage access through user groups; has community platform for discussions & knowledge sharing | https://geokey.org.uk/ | Extreme Citizen Science group/Univ College London | London | UK | data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS images networking software video |
| Organization | GeoNature | web & mobile app for entering, managing & disseminating fauna & flora data in France; GeoNature (for web entry, data export), Occtax (mobile entry), GeoNature-citizen (open citizen data collection), TaxHub (managing taxonomy) | https://geonature.fr/ | National Parks of France | citizen science education mobile app networking open-source |
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| Organization | Global Airborne Observatory | Earth imaging tech; featuring AToMS (airborne taxonomic mapping system) which has VSWIR imaging spectrometer, wLiDAR scanner, VNIR imaging spectrometer, high-res imaging camera | https://gao.asu.edu/ | Center for Global Discovery & Conservation Science (Arizona State Univ) | data analysis/viz data management geospatial hardware images remote sensing |
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| Organization | Global Canopy | provides open-access data, metrics, actionable insights to companies, financial institutions, governments & non-profits to increase transparency & accountability in supply chains, markets; makers of Trase, Trase Finance, Forest 500, ENCORE & Task Force for Nature-related Finncial Disclosures | https://globalcanopy.org/ | Oxford | UK | climate consulting data analysis/viz open-source software |
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| Organization | Global FinPrint | world's largest shark & ray survey; using baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVS) to survey coral reefs around the world | https://globalfinprint.org/ | Florida International University, Stony Brook University, James Cook University, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Curtin University, Dalhousie University | North Miami, Florida | USA | camera traps citizen science marine/aquatic video |
| Organization | Global Fishing Watch | create & share knowledge about human activity at sea to enable fair & sustainable use of oceans; monitoring vessels, compliance/transparency, open-source datasets, data viz & analysis tools | https://globalfishingwatch.org/ | Oceana, SkyTruth, Google | data analysis/viz data management geospatial marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative | GFBI studies & manages largest tree-level forest inventory database; >1.2 million plots from 70+ countries; you can contribute your data or request data already in the database | http://www.gfbinitiative.net | China Switzerland USA Spain | data analysis/viz data management networking open-source terrestrial |
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| Organization | Global Forest Watch | open source platform that uses satellite imagery & other data sources to monitor forests around the world; GLADD deforestation notifications, fire alerts, interactive map seeing how l& is being used, forest cover | https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ | World Resources Institute (WRI) | Washington DC | USA | data analysis/viz geospatial images mobile app open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | Global Mangrove Watch | provides remote sensing data & tools for monitoring mangroves to protect & restore them; near real-time info on mangroves worldwide; gives info on topography, soil conditions, hydrology | https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org/ | World Resources Institute (WRI), Global Mangrove Alliance, Vizzuality | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz education geospatial remote sensing |
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| Organization | Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) | global system of observing tools & technology, information systems, scientific analysis & forecasts to support climate science; observational backbone for operational forecast systems | https://goosocean.org/ | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, World Meteorological Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, International Science Council | Paris | France | climate consulting data-/bio-logging data management drones/AUV's geospatial GPS hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing networking tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | GloBAM | uses weather radar data to quantify the biomass flows of aerial migrants across Europe & North America | https://globam.science/ | Swiss Ornithological Institute, Univ of Exeter, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Univ of Amsterdam, Finnish Meteorological Institute, INBO | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz funding geospatial software tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Green Earth Alliance | creates perpetual funding for conservation projects through Web 3.0 technologies like NFTs, IoT, AI/ML & robotics | https://greenearthalliance.org/linktree/ | Yelka Mikolji | Delray Beach, Florida | United States | consulting funding |
| Organization | Group on Earth Observations (GEO) | runs GEO BON programs; intergovernmental partnership improving availability, access & use of Earth observations for a sustainable planet; building GEOSS - Global Earth Observation System of Systerms (geoportal.org); also runs Global Forest Observation Initiative, Global Ecosystem Initiative, Global Network for Observation & Info in Mountain Environments (GNOME); early warning system for algal blooms, soils map for Africa, global monitoring system for mangroves, natural capital & ecosystems accounting | https://earthobservations.org/index.php | iDiv, German Science Foundation | consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial marine/aquatic networking remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Hack the Poacher | make smart camera traps to detect poachers in protected areas, sends alerts to rangers; on-board image processing/edge computing using AI for real-time detection | https://www.hackthepoacher.com/ | Thijs Suijten, Tim van Deursen (Hack the Planet, Q42) | The Hague | the Netherlands | AI/ML camera trap IoT wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | ICARUS | International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space; "Internet of Animals" interactive platform that allows users to track animals around the world in near-real time; scientists working to develop a satellite-based system to track animals, particularly migratory ones | https://www.icarus.mpg.de/en | Martin Wikelski & Uschi MŸller (Max Planck), Olga Solomina (Russian Academy of Sciences), Movebank/Konstanz, Germany | data-/bio-logging data management geospatial marine/aquatic networking terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | IFREMER (French National Institute for Ocean Science) | research center exploring, understanding & predicting changes in ocean & fisheries using variety of sensors; host marine data portal (SeaDataNet); coordinate Euro-Argo | https://wwz.ifremer.fr/en/ | Franois Houllier | France | climate data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data-/bio-logging data management drones/AUV's hardware education marine/aquatic networking |
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| Organization | Impact Observatory | AI products for entities to use with tools like carbon mapping, human & biodiversity impacts, sustainability, carbon reduction, l& use/cover maps | https://www.impactobservatory.com/ | Steve Brumby, Sam Hyde | Washington DC & Santa Fe, New Mexico | USA | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz geospatial software |
| Organization | Instant Wild | brings citizen science users live images & videos from cameras around the world, users can tag animals to help conservation research; app & online; requires consensus between multiple users for image to be put into research database; currently in Brazil, Croatia, Borneo, Italy, Mexico, Kenya, Costa Rica, Russia, UK, some others | https://instantwild.zsl.org/ | Zoological Society London (ZSL) | London | UK | camera trap citizen science data management data analysis/viz images mobile app software video |
| Organization | International Barcode of Life | reference library of DNA barcodes for >9 million species of fauna, flora & fungi; tracking ecosystems & revealing symbiomes | https://ibol.org/ | data analysis/viz data management eDNA/genetics |
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| Organization | Key Conservation | helping conservationists gain critical funding & global support through mobile app that provides real-time updates on day-to-day campaigns; matching those with money, skills, etc. with conservation organizations working on particular projects | https://www.keyconservation.org/ | Megan Cromp | education funding local capacity building mobile app networking software |
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| Organization | KoBoToolbox | suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments; free & open-source; initially built for use in humanitarian crises; consists of Form Builder app, KoBoCollect data collection app (online & offline); Analysis app that creates summary reports, visualizes data, disaggregates data; accessed through KoBo API | https://www.kobotoolbox.org/ | Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | data analysis/viz data management mobile app open-source software |
| Organization | Kopernik | help organizations navigate the seemingly complex world of digital tech; a free, online catalog of affordable, simple tools for data collection, communication & measurement/evaluation; has categories of mobile data tools, GIS tools, remote sensors, & data analysis/viz tools | http://impacttrackertech.kopernik.info/ | Impact Tracker Tech | data management education GPS local capacity building mobile app software |
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| Organization | Landscale | helps companies assess & communicate sustainability impacts at landscape scale | https://www.landscale.org/ | Rainforest Alliance for Business | consulting geospatial |
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| Organization | Living Planet Technology Hub | directory of conservation tech resources, projects & tech challenges; 6 cons tech areas - camera traps, eDNA, conservation drones, remote sensing technology, ML & AI, blockchain tech | https://techhub.wwf.ca/ | World Wildlife Fund (WWF-Canada) | AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz drones/AUV's eDNA/genetics education funding geospatial local capacity building marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | LoRa Alliance | non-profit tech alliance enabling large-scale deployment of low power wide area networks, IoT, through development of LoRaWAN open standard; standardized & accredited certification scheme to deliver inter-operability; LoRaWAN is a networking protocol designed to wirelessly connect battery-operated things to the internet in regional, national, etc. networs & targets IoT requirements | https://lora-alliance.org/ | Fremont, California | USA | data management education events IoT networking software |
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| Organization | Luc Hoffman Institute | projects include gamifying nature conservation, redefining conservation NGOs, responses to corruption in natural resource management, alternatives to eco-tourism | https://luchoffmanninstitute.org/ | Luc Hoffman | Gland | Switzerland | AI/ML consulting education events funding local capacity building |
| Organization | MAAP | Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project; real-time monitoring of 85% of Amazon using remote sensing technologies, drones, radar, analytical algorithms; technology delivers actionable information that provides a transformational tool for governments & local people to rapidly detect deforestation as it is happening | https://maaproject.org/en/ | Amazon Conservation Association | data analysis/viz drones/AUV's geospatial GPS hardware images local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | MAMBO Project | provide knowledge & tools for monitoring wildlife & habitats in a more automated and cost-efficient way by integrating sensor development, deep learning, acoustics, ecology, remote sensing, citizen science & ecological modelling | https://mambo-project.eu/ | Toke Thomas H¿ye | Aarhus | Denmark | AI/ML bioacoustics camera traps climate drones/AUV's geospatial hardware images software |
| Organization | MapX | open-source cloud solution for mapping & monitoring the sustainable use of natural resources; partnered with UN Environment & the World Environment Situation Room, their data & knowledge platform; has online data workspace | https://www.mapx.org/ | UNEP, World Bank, Global Resource Information Database | data analysis/viz data management geospatial open-source remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Marxan | decision-support tool that helps structure, design & evaluate spatial planning projects for conservation by balancing objectives such as protecting biodiversity & its benefits, with socio-economic, cultural & political realities; has community forum; integrating with Azure for cloud computing/storage; has learning library of online resources, tutorials | https://marxansolutions.org/ | IPBES | AI/ML data management education networking open-source software |
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| Organization | Miradi Share | project management software for conservation practitioners to practice evidence-based conservation at scale; complements Conservation Standards; has online & desktop versions | https://www.miradishare.org/ux/home | Foundations of Success, Sitka Tech Group, Conservation Measures Partnership, Benetech | data management education local capacity building software |
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| Organization | Movement of Life | advance research & conservation of mobile species; using marine acoustic telemetry, PIT tags/geo locators/ satellite transponders for avian tracking, GPS for terrestrial tracking; ctmm R package for analyzing animal tracking data (also as a GUI); analysis tools for home range estimation, energy expenditure, encounter rates | https://movementoflife.si.edu/ | Smithsonian Institute | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz GPS R/Rstudio marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Organization | National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab | Developing & deploying extreme environment technologies that provide unprecedented insights into some of the most extreme & inaccessible environments & cultural heritage sites on Earth. | https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/labs/ | National Geographic | AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap drones/AUV's geospatial hardware images marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry video |
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| Organization | Nature Bytes | build your own Raspberry Pi wildlife cameras - Cam Kit | http://naturebytes.org/ | Stephen Mowat, Alasdair Davies, Jon Fidler | camera trap hardware images open-source video |
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| Organization | Nature Counts Foundation | builds AI-enabled underwater cameras & deploys them to collect biodiversity data for coral ecosystem restoration; building open-source data set of underwater imagery & video footage | https://www.nature-counts.org/ | David Lunsford | Zurich | Switzerland | AI/ML camera traps data-/bio-logging data management hardware images marine/aquatic open-source video |
| Organization | Nature4Climate | advocating for & demonstrating breadth of l& management options, facilitating dialogue around nature-based solutions, sharing knowledge, providing communications resources | https://nature4climate.org/ | climate education networking |
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| Organization | NatureMetrics | eDNA leader, co-running the eBioAtlas (see also their industry report on use of eDNA for biodiversity | https://www.naturemetrics.co.uk/ | Surrey | UK | data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Organization | NatureServe | America's-focused, has conservation database, standards & methods, mapping (hotspots, at-risk, biodiversity indicators dashboard), iMapInvasives, climate change vulnerability index | https://www.natureserve.org/ | Arlington, Virginia | USA | climate data management geospatial remote sensing software |
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| Organization | NatureSpy | citizen-science platform for camera-trap data; makes own trail cam ($100), WiFi-enabled; has 'camera trap chooser' tool; have trail cam trainings | https://www.naturespy.org/ | Llangollen | Wales | camera trap education events hardware images terrestrial video |
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| Organization | NICFI Satellite Data Program | through NorwayÕs International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI) users can access PlanetÕs high-resolution, analysis-ready mosaics of the worldÕs tropics (97 countries) to help combat deforestation & climate change, conserve biodiversity | https://www.planet.com/nicfi/ | NorwayÕs International Climate & Forests Initiative, Planet | data analysis/viz data management education geospatial images local capacity building open-source remote sensing |
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| Organization | Ocean Conservation Research | researching solutions to human-generated noise pollution & impact on marine animals; projects include hydrophone studies, whale tracking in shipping lanes, etc. | https://ocr.org/ | Michael Stocker | Lagunitas, California | USA | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | Ocean Discovery League | expanding access to deep sea exploration by developing AI tools to analyze ocean video & imagery, low-cost deep-ocean sensors, global capacity with local communities | https://www.oceandiscoveryleague.org/ | Katy Croff Bell | Saunderstown, Rhode Island | USA | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz education hardware local capacity building marine/aquatic remote sensing |
| Organization | Ocean Observatories Initiative | science-driven ocean observing network that delivers real-time data from >800 instruments to address critical science questions regarding oceans | https://oceanobservatories.org/ | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Washington, Oregon State University | Woods Hole, Massachussetts | United States | climate data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management hardware marine/aquatic |
| Organization | Ocean Visions | network linking resources, expertise & people to develop applied solutions to ocean challenges; projects include: ocean carbon dioxide removal, coastal solutions for climate resilience, circular ocean bioeconomy | https://oceanvisions.org/ | Georgia Tech, Smithsonian, Scripps Institute, Stanford, Univ of Georgia, UC Santa Barbara, Birch Aquarium, Woods Hole, MIT, Georgia Aquarium, MBARI, Monterey Bay Aquarium | climate consulting hardware local capacity building marine/aquatic |
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| Organization | Ocean+/Ocean Plus | platform providing world's decision-makers & communities of practice with the best possible global info, knowledge & tools to manage & conserve ocean ecosystems; Ocean+ Library, Ocean_ Habitats, Protected Planet-Marine, Ocean Data Viewer | https://www.oceanplus.org/ | GEO BON, Proteus, UNEP WCMC, Protected Planet | consulting data analysis/viz data management education marine/aquatic software |
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| Organization | OceanMind | powers marine enforcement & compliance to protect the ocean using satellites & AI | https://www.oceanmind.global/ | Didcot | UK | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz data management images marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Oceans Unmanned | facilitating the use of unmanned technologies & promoting their safe & environmentally conscious operation through education and outreach; makers of ECO-drone; developed best-practices, policies for drone use with wildlife | https://oceansunmanned.org/ | Matt Pickett, Brian Taggart | Santa Barbara, California | United States | drones/AUV's education tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | Open Acoustic Devices | maker of the AudioMoth (passive acoustic recorder, $60 on GroupGets, $85/unit for direct buy on LabMaker), also AudioMoth Dev (dev board); uMoth (5g); waterproof cases for AudioMoth $40 (can buy with units); has desktop & mobile apps for firmware, configuration | https://www.openacousticdevices.info/ | Alex Rogers, Andrew Hill, Peter Prince, Jake Snaddon, Evelyn Pi–a Covarrubias, Patrick Doncaster, Lydia Katsis | bioacoustics hardware mobile app software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Open Data Kit (ODK) | app to build offline forms to collect data wherever needed; open-source, analytics built-in | https://getodk.org/ | data analysis/viz mobile app open-source |
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| Organization | Open Ecoacoustics | open ecoacoustics platform to share & aggregate data, analyses & tools, & inter-operate with downstream devices | https://openecoacoustics.org/ | Paul Roe, Susan Fuller | Brisbane City, Queensland | Australia | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management local capacity building open-source software |
| Organization | Open Foris | free open-source solutions for environmental monitoring; set of software tools that include: Arena, Collect, Collect Earth (survey design, data mgmt), Collect mobile (app), Calc (data analysis), SEPAL (earth observations, data access & processing), Earth Map (Google Earth Engine access without coding); host events & webinars; has online user forum | http://www.openforis.org/ | UN FAO, World Bank, Forest Carbon Partnership, Servir, Int'l Climate Initiative & gov'ts of Finland, Germany, Norway | data analysis/viz data management events mobile app open-source software |
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| Organization | OpenCollar | design, support & deploy open-source tracking collar hardware & software for widlife monitoring projects; starting with an Elephant collar with Smart Parks-Elephant Edge; GPS-LoRaWAN collars | https://opencollar.io/ | Smart Parks | GPS hardware IoT terrestrial open-source |
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| Organization | OpenDroneMap | drone mapping software with WebODM user interface & ODM (from comm& line); for processing, analyzing & displaying aerial data from drones; can do orthomosaics, point clouds, elevation models, 3D models, measurements, contours, multispectral images, etc.; connects to Cloud, has Python SDK, FIELDimager R package, Node.js API; also has community forum | https://www.opendronemap.org/ | data analysis/viz data management drones/AUV's geospatial networking open-source python R/Rstudio remote sensing |
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| Organization | ORG.one | supports equitable, faster & more locally-based genetic sequencing of endangered species; data generated uploaded to open-access database; high quality de novo draft assemblies of genomes | https://org.one/oo | Oxford Nanopore Technologies | data analysis/viz data management eDNA/genetics funding local capacity building open-source |
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| Organization | Panorama Solutions | partnership promoting examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation & development topics to enable cross-sectoral learning & upsacling of successes | https://panorama.solutions/en | UNEP, IUCN, Rare, GEF, World Bank Group | education local capacity building networking |
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| Organization | Planet Tracker | non-profit think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries by investigating risk of market failure related to environmental limits (focusing on oceans, food & l& use, textiles, plastics) | https://planet-tracker.org/ | Investor Watch | UK | consulting climate data analysis/viz |
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| Organization | Policy Support Systems | makers of web-based policy support systems based on high-resolution spatial datasets; includes Co$stingNature (natural capital accounting & analysing ecosystem services) Eco:Actuary (green infrastructure investments), WaterWorld (land & water resource management related policies) | http://www.policysupport.org | Mark Mulligan (King's College London), AmbioTEK CIC | London | UK | academic lab consulting data analysis/viz data management education geospatial remote sensing software terrestrial |
| Organization | Preferred by Nature | NGO supporting l& management & business practices that benefit people, nature & climate (sustainability certification services, awareness raising, capacity building) | https://preferredbynature.org/ | offices in 25 countries | climate consulting data management local capacity building |
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| Organization | Previsia | platform that uses AI to indicate areas at risk of deforestation (topography, l& cover, roads, infrastructure, socioeconomic data) in the Brazilian Amazon; provides data viz & analytics dashboard | https://previsia.org/ | Imazon, Microsoft, Fundo Vale | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Organization | Project Canopy | databases, maps, analytics & interactive tools to assemble & distribute data about forest cover, threatened species & carbon stores in Congo Basin | https://www.projectcanopy.org/ | Jules Caron, Misha Lepetic | Geneva | Switzerland | AI/ML consulting geospatial images remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | Project CETI | Cetacean Translation Initiative; applying ML & gentle robotics to decipher the communication of sperm whales; have a marine conservation fellowship program | https://www.projectceti.org/ | David Gruber | Dominica USA | AI/ML bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz drones/AUV's education funding marine/aquatic open-source |
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| Organization | Project Dhvani | uses sound to detect biodiversity & understand relationship between biodiversity & land cover, land uses & resource management using automated detection methods | http://www.projectdhvani.org/ | Ruth DeFries | India | bioacoustics local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Organization | Protected Planet | most up to date & complete source of data on protected areas & other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), updated monthly with submissions from governments, ngo's, communities, etc.; hosts World Database on Protected Areas, World Database on OECMs, Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness; has lots of data viz tools | https://www.protectedplanet.net/en | UNEP WCMC, IUCN | data analysis/viz data management education geospatial local capacity building marine/aquatic networking open-source software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Radiant Earth Foundation | open, neutral Earth imagery for programmers & geospatial community to support decision-makers working on global development challenges; develop Earth observation machine learning libraries & models through open source hub; fosters community of practice to develop standards around machine learning for Earth observation & provide info on progress in Earth observation marketplace | https://www.radiant.earth/about/ | Washington DC | USA | AI/ML data management education geospatial networking open-source remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Rainforest Connection (RFCx) | develops acoustic monitoring tech that enables partners to protect vulnerable rainforests and wildlife by detecting threats (like illegal logging) & monitor biodiversity to inform conservation efforts & minimize worsening climate change | https://rfcx.org/ | Bourhan Yassin | Katy, Texas | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics consulting data analysis/viz data management hardware remote sensing software wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | REDD+ | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation; carbon offsets framework that creates financial value for carbon stored in forests (aim is to reduce deforestation through voluntary action); use independent, third-party standards for evaluation, validation, monitoring & auditing | https://www.reddimpact.com/ | United Nations | climate consulting data analysis/viz local capacity building funding geospatial |
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| Organization | Reef Life Survey | interactive digital tool for tracking the health of vital reef ecosystems globally (but Australia focused); train citizen science divers to collect data; maintain Reef Species of the World database; Reef Life Explorer - online interactive map with different indicator variables; all survey data open-access through online database | https://reeflifesurvey.com/ | Tasmania, Australia | citizen science data management education events geospatial images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | ReefBase | maker of ReefGIS, global information system for coral reefs; has global database of coral reef research; can create custom maps in online GIS system; has webinars & events | http://www.reefbase.org/main.aspx | WorldFish | data-/bio-logging education events geospatial GPS marine/aquatic networking software |
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| Organization | RESOLVE | working with local, multi-sector constituencies for targeted l& protection & restoration; designs conservation tech; makers of the TrailGuard AI camera (stop poachers & protect parks), quick response fund for nature; maintains Global Safety Net map | https://www.resolve.ngo/ | Washington DC Vancouver Colombier | USA Canada Switzerland | AI/ML camera trap data management funding hardware local capacity building images geospatial wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Resource Watch | cloud-based platform with hundreds of datasets on state of planet's resources & citizens; has dashboards for forests, oceans, food, society, climate, energy, cities & water; can create personalized alerts; open-access data | https://resourcewatch.org/ | WRI in collab w/ 20 other companies & org's | camera trap climate data analysis/viz data managament local capacity building geospatial marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Restor | informing & connecting the global restoration movement; map-based, open-source platform that combines on-the-ground knowledge, ecosystem research & satellite imagery to plan, manage & monitor restoration projects; currently 50,000 sites registered | https://restor.eco/ | Thomas Crowther (ETH Zurich) | Zurich | Switzerland | data management geospatial images open-source remote sensing software |
| Organization | Revive & Restore | enhancing biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered & extinct species | https://reviverestore.org/ | Ryan Phelan | Sausalito, California | USA | eDNA/genetics |
| Organization | Rhino Force | direct-action organization using innovative surveillance & anti-poaching tech to preserve rhino genes (maintain cryo/biobank), prevent rhino killings & expose illegal wildlife activities in Southern Africa | https://rhino-force.org/index.html | South Africa, Zimbabwe | eDNA/genetics remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Robots4Whales | monitor presence of marine mammals from ocean-going robots that automatically detect animal sounds, identify the species & report it to scientists on shore via satellite in near real time | http://robots4whales.whoi.edu/ | Mark Baumgartner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Woods Hole, Massachusetts | United States | bioacoustics data analysis/viz hardware IoT marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | SAFE Acoustics | automating biodiversity monitoring in Borneo via passive acoustics (use real-time acoustic monitoring units that they developed; based off RasPi, powered by solar panels & connected to internet via 3G phone signal, so can continuously record & upload data for long durations; this hardware is open-source with step-by-step instructions at rpi-eco-monitoring.com | http://acoustics.safeproject.net/ | SAFE Borneo | Borneo | bioacoustics hardware open-source |
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| Organization | Sapelli | open-source project that facilitates data collection across language or literacy barriers through highly configurable icon-driven user interfaces; mobile app & online platform; ZSL has a project with them for reporting wildlife crime | http://www.sapelli.org/ | Extreme Citizen Science group at Univ College | London | UK | data management local capacity building mobile app open-source software wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | SeaMonitor | using "smart" buoys, acoustic receivers between Ireland & Scotland to create spatial models for marine mammals & fish, oceanographic models & contribute to management plans | https://www.loughs-agency.org/managing-our-loughs/funded-programmes/current-programmes/sea-monitor/ | Loughs Agency | Carlingford, Derry | Ireland | bioacoustics geospatial hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | SECORE | refining coral restoration methodologies using coral breeding & creating novel tools that allow for the implementation of large-scale restoration | http://www.secore.org/site/our-work/detail/engineering-restoration.60.html | Dr. Dirk Petersen | Ohio | USA | climate eDNA/genetics education hardware marine/aquatic networking |
| Organization | Senckenberg Center for Wildlife Genetics | develop new molecular marker systems for genetic wildlife monitoring, including eDNA & SNP-panels optimized for genotyping of forensic & non-invasively collected material | https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/senckenberg-research-institute-natural-history-museum-frankfurt/division-river-ecology-and-conservation/center-for-wildlife-genetics/ | Senckenberg Research Institute, Carsten Nowak | Frankfurt | Germany | data-/bio-logging eDNA/genetics |
| Organization | SEPAL | system for earth observations, data access, processing & analysis for l& monitoring; allows users to query & process satellite data quickly & efficiently; tailors product for local needs; produces sophisticated & relevant geospatial analyses quickly via cloud-based computing; has integrations with R, Shiny, Jupyter, Google Earth Engine, Open Foris | https://sepal.io/ | UN FAO, Open Foris team | consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing software |
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| Organization | Serendipity Wildlife Foundation | assisting conservationists with wildlife forensics & wildlife crime investigations; provides & coordinates volunteers to assist with wildlife projects | https://www.csiwildlife.org/ | Ravi Perera | Fullerton, California | USA | citizen science consulting eDNA/genetics images wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | Skylight | helps improve maritime transparency & provides actionable intelligence (IUU fishing) to protect oceans & wildlife; real-time tracking; can identify suspicious vessel behavior & alert authorities who can investigate & take enforcement/compliance action when necessary | https://www.skylight.global/ | Vulcan/Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | Seattle, Washington | USA | data analysis/viz marine/aquatic software tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | SkyTruth | uses remote sensing, satellite imagery & digital mapping to alert citizens, journalists, researchers, policymakers & conservation groups to the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment; 4 program areas - freshwater, oceans, biodiversity, climate; use data from 8 satellites; use AI, ML, AIS, cloud computing to create maps & data viz products | https://skytruth.org/ | John Amos | AI/ML climate consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Organization | SMART | Spatial Monitoring & Reporting Tool; online, desktop & mobile platform for protected area management; SMART Mobile/Collect for collecting ranger-based data (has survey plug-in for managing ecological surveys; Desktop can process, store, evaluate & visualize data; Connect - for storing, sharing, managing data on web-connected database | https://smartconservationtools.org/ | WCS, WWF, GWC, ZSL, NC zoo, FZS, Panthera, Peace Parks | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management events local capacity building mobile app networking software tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Smart Parks Network | has hardware (ear tags, collars, acoustic sensors, gate sensors, vehicle tracker); deploying sensor/comm's networks (LoRa) in parks to track wildlife, monitor illegal activity, etc; data uploaded to web app to provide real-time info | https://www.smartparks.org/ | Tim van Dam, Jeroen de Looze, Steve Roest, Laurens de Groot | bioacoustics camera trap data-/bio-logging data management hardware IoT local capacity building mobile app remote sensing software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | SmartBuoys | autonomous systems that are moored, automated, multi-parameter recording platforms used to collect marine environmental data | https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/smartbuoys/ | UK | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic |
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| Organization | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | long-term datasets to track decades of environmental change including plant & animal databases for the US & beyond | https://serc.si.edu/environmental-data | Smithsonian | Washington D.C. | USA | climate citizen science data-/bio-logging data management education images marine/aquatic open-source terrestrial |
| Organization | Sound Earth Legacy | aiming to preserve the sounds of the earth & support bioacoustic research; collaborates with "planetary artists" to spread conservation messages | https://soundearthlegacy.org/ | Andrea Lamount | Barcelona | Spain | bioacoustics education |
| Organization | Sounding Wild | creating immersive sound-led wildlife experiences (lots of VR stuff) | https://www.soundingwild.com/ | Axel Drioli | bioacoustics images video software |
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| Organization | Soundscapes to Landscapes | advancing animal biodviersity monitoring via Earth-observing satellites; coupled with passive acoustic monitoring; citizen-science based, then upload data for soundscape analysis | https://soundscapes2landscapes.org/ | Andrea Lamount | Barcelona | Spain | bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | SPOTT | supports financial sector & supply chain stakeholders to manage ESG risk through transparency assessments of soft commodity producers & traders; currently assesses for palm oil, natural rubber, timber & pulp | https://www.spott.org/ | Zoological Society London | London | UK | consulting data analysis/viz |
| Organization | Sri Lankan Turtle ID Project | uses pattern recognition systems in order to create a digital ÒfingerprintÓ for turtles found in Sri Lankan waters | https://turtleidsrilanka.org/ | Chathurika Munasinghe & Randunu Dimeshan - Collaboration between Polhena Diving Center and OCEA Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | AI/ML citizen science data analysis/viz education images marine/aquatic software |
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| Organization | Station B | ocean tech development facility & field station; turnkey engineering labs to develop & rapidly iterate ocean sensing, protection & exploration tools for deployment & testing in Bermuda's marine eco- systems | http://www.station-b.org | Jean-Pierre Rouja, Allan Adams | Sandys Parish | Bermuda | education hardware local capacity building marine/aquatic |
| Organization | Swarm | low-cost, 2-way, affordable global satllite conectivity for IoT devices | https://swarm.space/ | Sara Spangelo, Ben Longmier | Mountain View, California | USA | hardware IoT local capacity building |
| Organization | Swiss Data Cube | support the Swiss government for environmental monitoring & reporting & enable Swiss institutions to facilitate new research using SDC datasets & Earth observation data | https://www.swissdatacube.org/ | GRID-Geneva, University of Geneva | Switzerland | consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial open-source software |
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| Organization | Synature | developing next-gen, real-time wildlife monitoring technologies using AI, smart microphones; get live updates of selected species on external devices | https://www.synature.ch/en/home | Olivier Stahli, Miya Ferrisse, Noah Schmid, Adrian, Jorg | Switzerland | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz hardware IoT software terrestrial |
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| Organization | Tagging of Pelagic Predators | allows users to view & interact with animal tracking data (from camera GPS tags), oceanographic datasets & marine life observation; uses Google Earth Engine; tagged species include sharks, tuna, seals, sea turtles; also buoy & glider dataloggers | http://www.topp.org/ | camera trap data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz geospatial GPS hardware images marine/aquatic remote sensing tracking/telemetry video |
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| Organization | TagLab | aquatic biotelemetry tag maker - biologging camera tags, iTag for soft-bodied invertebrates, dTag for acoustic recording; online tracking data viewer for Shark Cam & Turtle Cam | https://www2.whoi.edu/site/taglab/ | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Woods Hole, Massachusetts | USA | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging GPS hardware images marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | Tech 4 Conservation | delivers technologies like machine learning, LoRaWAN, edge computing and more, to conservationists; work on African Carnivore & North American Wildbooks, Conflict Mitigation Kit; wildlife crime risk detection software | https://www.t4c.org/ | Maureen Reilly | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada | GPS hardware IoT open-source software terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | Tech for Forests | support land & forest defenders by recommending them free & open-source software (FOSS) designed to help their daily lives against climate change; interview developers, to understand needs & challenges | https://techforforests.org/ | Narrira Lemos, Luciana Ferreira, M‡rcia N—brega, Bruno Rigonato | data analysis/viz networking open-source software |
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| Organization | Tech to the Rescue | platform to unite climate-oriented nonprofit organizations & tech companies to build impactful pro bono solutions to mitigate climate change | https://www.techtotherescue.org/ | Jacek Siadkowski, Daniel Di Gusto | Warsaw | Poland | climate consulting funding networking |
| Organization | TerrAdapt | cloud-based platform that uses the remote sensing & AI capabilities of Google Earth Engine to dynamically monitor habitat & connectivity, project future conditions given future climate & land-use scenarios & prioritize areas for conservation actions; web-based mapping and reporting tools | https://terradapt.org/ | Carly Vynne, Andrew Shirk | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz data management geospatial remote sensing |
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| Organization | The Big Wild | specialize in large-scale collection & process of wildlife data utilizing AI & ML; maintain conservation tech data libraries | https://thebigwild.com/ | Alayna van Dervort, Tanya Berger-Wolf | AI/ML consulting networking |
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| Organization | The Nature Conservancy Agility Lab | rapid prototyping lab for solutions related to wildlife conservation, forest health, floodplain management, water security, etc. | https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/technology-and-innovation/agility-lab/ | Boulder, Colorado | United States | climate data analysis/viz data management local capacity building marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Organization | Trends.Earth | platform for monitoring & tracking l& change (productivity, l& cover, soil organic carbon) using earth observations in a desktop + cloud-based system | https://trends.earth/docs/en/ | Conservation International | data analysis/viz geospatial GPS remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Trillion Trees | joint venture to scale up reforestation, restoration; advocate for reforestation policy | https://trilliontrees.org/home | WCS, WWF, Birdlife International | data analysis/viz education geospatial networking |
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| Organization | UN Biodiversity Lab | provides access to global public data on people & planet; democratizes access to spatial data & analytic tools; supports decision-makers to leverage spatial data; empowers stakeholders to use spatial data for monitoring & reporting; offer free workspaces for stakeholders to use its tools in a secure (virtual) environment | https://unbiodiversitylab.org/ | UNDP, UN Environment & CBD Secretariat | consulting data management geospatial local capacity building open-source remote sensing software |
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| Organization | USAID GeoCenter | uses geospatial technology, data analytics & visualization techniques to improve the strategic planning, design, monitoring & evaluation of Agency programs; incorporates economic, demographic & geographic information to generate custom analyses & maps for USAID field Missions | https://www.digitaldevelopment.org/geocenter | US Agency for International Development (USAID) | Washington DC | USA | data analysis/viz education geospatial GPS remote sensing software |
| Organization | Visipedia | building joint large-scale computer vision systems around communities of experts; outputs include the Seek by iNaturalist app, the Merlin Bird ID app, & the Fine Grained Visual Categorization Workshop challenges | https://visipedia.github.io/ | Led by Pietro Perona and Serge Belongie, members include Oisin mac Aodha, Grant van Horn, Sara Beery, Elijah Cole | AI/ML bioacoustics camera trap mobile app |
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| Organization | Waterbear | video on-dem& platform dedicated to the future of the planet; free membership, no subscription fees, no ads; 100s of nature/environmental documentaries; can also connect to ngo's featured in films, take specific actions | https://www.waterbear.com/ | ? | education marine/aquatic terrestrial video |
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| Organization | Whale Seeker | leverage AI to deliver better, simpler & faster whale detection data (uses aerial, satellite & infrared data); Mobius-aerial images analysis tool | https://www.whaleseeker.com/ | Emily Tissier, Antoine GagnŽ-Turcotte, Bertrand Charry | Montreal | Canada | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial images marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
| Organization | Wild Me | builds open software & artificial intelligence for the conservation research community; offer free & paid services, including: Azure cloud hosting of Wildbooks, annotation of photographic data, custom computer vision/ML model development; host Wildbooks, which track individual animals using markings, citizen science engagement, ML pattern matching for photo IDs (Flukebook, MantaMatcher, GiraffeSpotter, Whiskerbook, etc.); have fully-configured, public Docker images | https://wildme.org/ | Jason Holmberg | Portland, Oregon | USA | AI/ML camera trap citizen science data analysis/viz data management images marine/aquatic open-source python terrestrial software video |
| Organization | Wild Spotter | citizen science project engaging the public to help find, map & prevent invasive species in America's wild places; has mobile app; tools to id invasive plants, animals & pathogens | https://wildspotter.org/ | US Forest Service, Wildlife Forever, Univ of Georgia | Georgia | USA | citizen science data management education images marine/aquatic mobile app software terrestrial |
| Organization | Wildbyte Technologies | telemetry hardware maker; make Daily Diary Tags (accelerometer + magnetometer + temperature/pressure/depth/light); 2-3g; have motion visualization software (OpenCV, OpenGL) that calculates different metrics, has behavioral builder for annotating behaviors in motion data; | http://www.wildbytetechnologies.com/ | Swansea University | Swansea | UK | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Organization | WildCount Australia | uses motion-sensitive digital cameras at 200 sites in eastern New South Wales to track changes in wildlife over 10 years; aim to detect change in target wildlife populations significant enough to trigger listing change on the IUCN RedList | https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/surveys-monitoring-and-records/native-animal-monitoring | New South Wales government | New South Wales | Australia | camera trap data analysis/viz hardware images terrestrial video |
| Organization | WildEye | provide AI-focused assistance to conservationists; creators of TrapTagger & Elephant Survey System | https://wildeyeconservation.org/about/ | Paul Maritz | South Africa | AI/ML camera traps geospatial images local capacity building mobile app software terrestrial |
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| Organization | WildHealthNet | supports the development of national wildlife health surveillance systems, incorporating community building, skill building, technology & local response to threats | https://oneworldonehealth.wcs.org/Initiatives/WildHealthNet.aspx | Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, New York | USA | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data management eDNA/genetics education local capacity building networking open-source |
| Organization | Wildlife Protection Solutions | makers of wpsWatch - mobile & desktop app that provides 24/7 wildlife monitoring wildlife reserves using custom camera traps & software which can detect threats; wpsArchive - data management system; wpsPortal - info database; wpsApps - free monitoring & education mobile apps | https://wildlifeprotectionsolutions.org/ | Denver, Colorado | USA | camera trap data management education mobile app software tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Wildlife tracks (seaturtle.org) | wildlife tracking data visualization tool for marine birds/waterfowl, sea turtles, sharks & marine mammals | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/ | seaturtle.org | data analysis/viz education geospatial GPS marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | Wildlife.ai | developing ML solutions for conservation; projects include pattern recognition software to individually identify frogs, identify fish species; make smart trail cam for ground-dwelling animals (Weta Watcher) with edge computing to ID animals | http://wildlife.ai/ | New Plymouth | New Zealand | AI/ML education images IoT marine/aquatic open-source software video |
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| Organization | WildTech DNA | developing a fast, low-cost & accessible species detection kit for combatting illegal wildlife trade, doing environmental impact assessments, etc | https://wildtechdna.com/ | Natalie, James, Keith | Ontario | Canada | eDNA/genetics hardware wildlife crime prevention |
| Organization | WildTechDNA | developing fast, portable, low-cost & accessible species detection DNA kit | https://wildtechdna.com/ | Natalie, James, Keith | eDNA/genetics hardware |
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| Organization | WildTrack | FIT (footprint identification technique), develop algorithms to ID footprints for non-invasive monitoring of endangered species; integration with iNaturalist | https://wildtrack.org/ | Zoe Jewell, Sky Alibhai | AI/ML data management images software tracking/telemetry |
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| Organization | WWF Conservation Tech Program | providing practitioners with accessible & freely available, peer-edited guidance; give detailed recommendations on how to use different tech to meet various goals | https://www.wwf.org.uk/project/conservationtechnology | World Wildlife Fund (WWF) | AI/ML bioacoustics camera traps education geospatial images remote sensing |
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| Organization | WWF Space Science | apply state-of-the-art geo-spatial technologies for conservation; involved in projects such as PandaSat, Marelitt, seascape mapping, mapping land cover, forest biomass with LiDAR, Global Observation and Biodiversity Information Portal webGIS, forest governance monitoring; monitoring gold mining | https://space-science.wwf.de/ | World Wildlife Fund | Germany | data analysis/viz geospatial images local capacity building marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Organization | Xylo Systems | cloud-based software to plan & track conservation projects with automated AI data processing, insights, reports; maintains online collaboration network; compare impact to international/national benchmarks | https://www.xylosystems.org/ | Camille Goldstone-Henry | Australia | AI/ML data management networking software |
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| Tool | 13S: Interactive Individual Identification System | free computer-aided photo-id app that uses natural marks to identify individual animals | https://reijns.com/i3s/ | Jurgen den Hartog, Renate Reijns | AI/ML data analysis/viz images marine/aquatic open-source software |
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| Tool | AcceleRater | web application for supervised learning of behavioral modes from acceleration measurements | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337760/ | Yehezkel Resheff, Shay Rotics, Roi Harel, Orr Spiegel, Ran Nathan | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz open-source python software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Acoustic_Indices python package | Python library to extract global acoustic indices (14 common ones included) from an audio file for use as a biodiversity proxy, within the framework of ecoacoustics | https://github.com/patriceguyot/Acoustic_Indices | Patrice Guyot, Alice Eldridge | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python |
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| Tool | AIDE | Annotation Interface for Data-driven Ecology, image labeling software, detection from camera trap annotations, segmentation & classification of aerial imagery, has Detectron2 & other deep learning models built in, open model marketplace | https://github.com/microsoft/aerial_wildlife_detection | Benjamin Kellenberger, Microsoft AI for Earth | AI/ML camera trap images geospatial open-source software |
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| Tool | AMI-trap | platform for long-term, autonomous monitoring of moths; combines robust lighting, high resolution cameras, computer vision & autonomous imaging system to capture images, locate moths in the image & classify them to species | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/ukceh-ami-trap-automated-monitoring-insects | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford | UK | AI/ML camera traps hardware images terrestrial |
| Tool | amt | to manage & analyze animal movement data; includes methods to calculate home ranges, track statistics (e.g. step lengths, speed, or turning angles), prepare data for fitting habitat selection analyses & simulation of space-use from fitted step-selection functions. | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/amt/index.html | Johannes Signer, Brian Smith, Bjoern Reineking, Ulrike Schlaegel, John Fieberg, Josh O'Brien, Bernardo Niebuhr, Scott LaPoint | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Animal Scanner | software for classifying humans, animals, & empty frames in camera trap images | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4747 | Hayder Yousif | camera trap data management images software |
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| Tool | Animal Tracker app | allows the public to follow movements of animals being tracked by GPS using live feeds in Movebank; project owners can privately or publicly share data; users can contribute info/photos for citizen science | https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/animal-tracker | Movebank | citizen science data analysis/viz education GPS mobile app networking open-source tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | ANIMAL-SPOT | animal-independent deep learning software framework that addresses bioacoustic signal identification scenarios such as binary target detection, multi-class species identification & call type recognition; uses ResNet CNN backbone in PyTorch | https://github.com/ChristianBergler/ANIMAL-SPOT | Christian Bergler et al. | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python |
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| Tool | Animl | open-source, cloud-based platform for managing camera trap data; can configure custom machine learning pipelines; advanced querying; automated alerts of species detections | https://animl.camera/ | The Nature Conservancy (TNC) | camera traps data analysis/viz data management images open-source software |
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| Tool | Arbimon | free web-based platform to store, manage, process & analyze large acoustic datasets; offers diverse set of supervised & unsupervised analytical tools, AI models & soundscape analyses; explore & visualize results in user-friendly interface that enables detection of threats & monitoring biodiversity to inform conservation efforts | https://arbimon.rfcx.org/ | Rainforest Connection (RFCx) | Katy, Texas | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management images software wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | artemis | aids in design & analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) data by offering a custom suite of Bayesian latent-variable, truncated data models for quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) data from extracted eDNA samples; models fit using Stan | https://fishsciences.github.io/artemis/index.html | Matt Espe, Myfanwy Johnston | data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | ascr | fits spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models to estimate animal density from acoustic surveys | https://github.com/b-steve/ascr | Ben Stevenson | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | ASMSpotter | tool to automatically detect artisanal mining activity in the Amazon using artificial intelligence/deep learning & public data from Sentinel-2 satellites | https://dida.do/asmspotter-demo | Matthias Werner, Robert Heesen, William Clemens (Dida); Adam Rolfe, Victoria Gronwald (Levin Sources); Justus Freer (RWTH Aachen University) | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database | national, centralized passive acoustic telemetry repository (data from underwater hydrophones 2007-present), >1000 active receivers, 9800 tagged animals | https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/ | Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) | Australia | bioacoustics data-/bio-logging data management GPS marine/aquatic open-source tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Auto Arborist dataset | multi-view, fine-grained visual categorization dataset with >2 million trees (300+ genus-level categories in 23 cities across US, Canada) built to foster development of robust methods for large-scale urban forest monitoring | https://google.github.io/auto-arborist/ | Sara Beery, Guanhang Wu, Trevor Edwards, Filip Pavetic, Bo Majewski, Shreyasee Mukherjee, Stanley Chan, John Morgan, Vivek Rathod, Jonathan Huang | AI/ML data management geospatial GPS images open-source remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Tool | Autonomous Camera for Kraken Baiting and Recording (ACKBAR) | deep-sea camera trap that can generate virtual reality (VR) content | https://www.kolossal.org/ | KOLOSSAL, SubC Imaging, Global Ocean Design | camera trap drones/AUV's hardware images marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | AviaNZ | free & open-source birdsong analysis software with tools for manual annotation, automated detection (has built-in recognizers); video tutorials online | http://www.avianz.net/index.php | Isabel Castro, Stephen Marsland | New Zealand | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management education open-source software terrestrial |
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| Tool | awesome-forests | curated list of ground-truth/validation/in situ forest datasets for the forest-interested machine learning community; list targets data-based biodiversity, carbon, wildfire, ecosystem service, you name it! analysis | https://github.com/blutjens/awesome-forests | Bjšrn LŸtjens | AI/ML data management education geospatial images open-source remote sensing terrestrial |
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| Tool | bambird package | Python package that provides workflow to create your own labelling function to build cleaner bird audio dataset; mostly based on scikit-maad package | https://github.com/ear-team/bambird | EcoAcoustics Research team at the Museum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) de Paris | bioacoustics data analysis/viz python software |
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| Tool | banter R package | Bio-Acoustic eveNT classifiER (BANTER) is a package for creating hierarchical acoustic event classifiers out of multiple call type detectors | https://github.com/EricArcher/banter | Eric Archer | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio |
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| Tool | BatSound | bat sound analysis software; has automatic detectors, parameter extraction feature (~$270/license) | https://batsound.com/ | Pettersson Elektronik | Uppsala | Sweden | bioacoustics data analysis/viz software terrestrial |
| Tool | Bee Living Sensor | camera system with environmental sensors for monitoring bee colonies; uses AI to annotate video, evaluate pollen loads | https://en.beelivingsensor.org/ | Daniel Boschung, Clemens Mader | Zurich | Switzerland | AI/ML images software terrestrial video |
| Tool | Biome | citizen science app for crowdsourcing nature observations | https://earthshot.eco/product | Earthshot Labs | climate citizen science data-/bio-logging mobile app terrestrial |
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| Tool | Biosounds | web application for ecoacoustics that archives & organizes soundscape collections, hosts reference recording collections, generates navigable sound spectrograms & allows annotation of animal vocalizations or other sounds; has user guide | https://github.com/nperezg/biosounds | Noemi Perez & Kevin Darras, University of Goettingen | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management open-source software |
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| Tool | Bird Migration Atlas | online map that tracks & analyzes movements in time & space of 300 bird species (individuals & populations) between Eurasia & Africa; collaboration with Movebank & EURING | https://migrationatlas.org/ | Stephen Baillie, Wolfgang Fiedler | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Bird Migration Explorer | data visualization & map guide to the migrations of >450 North & South American bird species & conservation challenges they face | https://explorer.audubon.org/home | Melanie Smith, John Mahoney, Erika Knight, Lotem Taylor, Chat Witko, Miguel Jimeniz, Connor Bailey, Nat Seavy, William DeLuca, Jill Deppe, Chad Wilsey, Marco Carbone, Gadalia O'Bryan, Nalini Rao, Nicolas Gonzalez | New York, New York | USA | data analysis/viz education GPS software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | Bird Sounds Global | web portal that aims to produce training & testing material for machine learning induced automated bird species recognition using citizen science & expert validations | https://bsg.laji.fi/ | LIFEPLAN (University of Helsinki) | bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz software terrestrial |
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| Tool | BirdCast | real-time predictions of different bird species' migrations across North America (when they migrate, where they migrate & how far they fly) | https://birdcast.info/ | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Colorado State University, U Mass Amherst | Ithaca, New York | USA | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz geospatial GPS software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | BirdNet | "shazam" for birds; recognizing birds by sound at scale; supports various hardware (Arduino, RasPi, web, smartphones, cloud); citizen science platform + analysis software for very large audio datasets; currently feature 1000 common species in N. America & Europe | https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ | Stefan Kahl (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) | bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz data management hardware software terrestrial |
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| Tool | BirdScan | compact radar/bio-monitoring system that measures bird & bat movement using a rotating horn antenna; offers real-time classification & quantification represented as mean traffic rate | https://www.swiss-birdradar.com/birdscan-mr.html | Swiss BirdRadar | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz geospatial hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | BirdVox | aims to investigate ML techniques for automatic detection & classification of bird species from their vocalizations; code on Github; ultimate goal to deploy a network of acoustic sensors for real-time monitoring of bird migratory patterns | https://wp.nyu.edu/birdvox/ | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, NYU Music & Audio Lab | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics education open-source software terrestrial |
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| Tool | BOX21 | platform that supports dataset management & image annotation to automatically complete labeling tasks; support for storing, managing, & automating data annotation workflows on images | https://box21.ai/ | Jorrit van Gils, Ramon Hollands | Wageningen, Gelderland | the Netherlands | AI/ML camera traps data management images software |
| Tool | Brackish dataset | bounding box annotated underwater image dataset from 89 videos & 6 classes of marine organisms | https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/aalborguniversity/brackish-dataset | Mathias Gudiksen, Lasse Hansen | Aalborg | Denmark | camera traps images mobile app open-source video |
| Tool | Bristlemouth | open connectivity standard that provides plug-and-play functionality for all marine sensing systems | https://www.bristlemouth.org/ | Office of Naval Research, DARPA, Sofar Ocean, Oceankind | San Francisco, California | USA | data-/bio-logging hardware IoT |
| Tool | BTO Acoustic Pipeline | cloud pipeline to allow audio recordings to be uploaded to a remote server & processed to find & identify biological sounds, & return results back to your computer. Can identify 24 species of bats, 13 small mammal species, & 11 bush-cricket species. | https://app.bto.org/acoustic-pipeline/public/login.jsp | British Trust for Ornithology | Norfolk, England | UK | AI/ML bioacoustics data management software terrestrial |
| Tool | Bugg | intelligent real-time ecoacoustic monitoring hardware & software system | https://www.bugg.xyz/ | Dr. Sarab Sethi | London, England | UK | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz hardware open-source software terrestrial |
| Tool | Bumblee Radar | low-power, mote-scale pulsed dopplar radar sensor board from Samraksh's suite of wireless sensor networks; $100-$400 | https://samraksh.com/index.php/products/sensors/32-product-pages/products-sensors/71-bumblebee-radar | Samraksh Company | data-/bio-logging geospatial hardware IoT remote sensing |
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| Tool | Camera trap distance sampling example | analysis of camera trapping data using distance sampling; example analysis with Ivory Coast MaxwellÕs duiker; using Distance R package | http://examples.distancesampling.org/Distance-cameratraps/camera-distill.html | Eric Howe, Eric Rexstad (University of St Andrews)) | St Andrews | Scotland | academic lab camera traps data analysis/viz education images open-source R/Rstudio |
| Tool | CamTrap Detector | interface/GUI for running MegaDetector (v5) without need for internet | https://github.com/bencevans/camtrap-detector#readme | Benjamin Evans | UK | camera traps data analysis/viz images open-source software |
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| Tool | camtrapR | package for camera trap data management in R; assists in image organization, species & individual identification, data extraction from images, tabulation & visualization of results & export of data for subsequent analyses | https://github.com/jniedballa/camtrapR | JŸrgen Niedballa, Rahel Sollmann, Alexandre Courtiol, Andreas Wilting | camera traps data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | Carnivore Spotter | check with your local zoo or for wildlife maps in your local area to see if there are existing resources where you can help label images or upload your own wildlife sightings | https://carnivorespotter.org/ | Woodland Park Zoo | Seattle, Washington | USA | citizen science education images software terrestrial video |
| Tool | Chhimeki Chara | app to help people identify & count birds you see & hear in your neighborhood; made for Nepalese Neighborhood Bird Counts | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chhimekicharaapp | Bird Conservation Nepal | Nepal | citizen science education images mobile app |
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| Tool | CITES Wildlife TradeView | interactive online tool for exploring & visualizing CITES trade data over time, by species or by country; to visualize trends in international wildlife trade | https://tradeview.cites.org/ | CITES, United Nations Environment Programme | data analysis/viz software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | CLIMFILL | framework for intelligently gap-filling Earth observations; fills gaps in gridded geoscientific observational data by accounting for spatial neighborhood, temporal context & multivariate dependencies; functions for interpolation, feature engineering, clustering, regression learning | https://github.com/climachine/climfill | Verena Bessenbacher | climate data analysis/viz geospatial images open-source python remote sensing |
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| Tool | Cloud for Sustainability | combines tools to help companies track emissions, environmental impact | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sustainability | Microsoft | consulting climate software |
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| Tool | Community Forestry (CommFor) app | mobile app for monitoring the performance of community forestry interventions & to collect multi-country temporal data on community forestry | https://www.forestlivelihoods.org/community-forestry-commfor-data-collection-app-pilot-project/ | Forests & Livelihoods Assessment, Research, and Engagement (FLARE), Arun Agrawal, Ashwini Chhatre, Daniel C. Miller, University of Michigan, Indian School of Business, University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, Indiana | USA | climate citizen science data-/bio-logging mobile app open-source terrestrial |
| Tool | Congo Basin Community Atlas | providing easy access to accurate geographical info on community presence, posession & use in the Congo | https://cbca.mappingforrights.org/ | Mapping for Rights, indigenous communities, Rainforest Foundation UK | countries of Congo Basin | Africa | data management geospatial GPS local capacity building open-source software |
| Tool | conservationist.io | apps platform (Collaborative Mapper to edit maps within a team, Habitat Patrol to detect landscape cover changes), in beta testing now | https://conservationist.io/landing | Defenders of Wildlife | geospatial mobile app remote sensing software |
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| Tool | Coral Reef Mapping Robot | "Scoutbot" is a semi-autonomous boat used to map shallow coral reefs & monitor marine protected areas; has remote control capacity & route planning with GPS; incorporates AI models to identify corals | https://cesarjungharada.com/cjh/coral-reef-mapping-robot | AI/ML drones/AUV's GPS hardware images marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | CoralNet | open-source data repository & collaboration/data-sharing platform for benthic images analysis; site deploys deep neural networks for full & semi-automated image annotation; can have public or private datasets saved | https://coralnet.ucsd.edu/about/ | Oscar Beijbom, Stephen Chan, Devang Sampat | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management geospatial images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software |
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| Tool | crawl | fit continuous-time correlated random walk models with time indexed covariates to animal telemetry data; model fit using the Kalman-filter on a state space version of the continuous-time stochastic movement process | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/crawl/index.html | Devin Johnson, Josh London, Kenady Wilson | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | crowsetta Python Package | package to work with any format for annotating animal vocalizations and bioacoustics data | https://crowsetta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html# | David Nicholson | Washington DC | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management open-source python software |
| Tool | ctmm | R package for analyzing animal tracking data as continuous-time stochastic processes; features include FFT variogram & Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis, perturbative REML estimation, Kriging, simulation, & autocorrelated kernel-density home-range estimation | https://biology.umd.edu/movement | Christen Fleming, Justin Calabrese | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | CyberTracker | app for GPS field data collection, with icon user interface design, integration with ArcGIS, SMART, EarthRanger, GDM+; can customize based on your sampling scheme; developing a worldwide environmental monitoring network | https://www.cybertracker.org/ | Louis Liebenberg, Justin Steventon | Cape Town | South Africa | GPS mobile app software tracking |
| Tool | Deep Audio Segmenter (DAS) | tool for annotating song in audio recordings and using neural networks to estimate probability of finding particular song type; implemented in Tensorflow; can be used through graphical user interface or via command line/python code; online tutorials | https://janclemenslab.org/das/ | Kevin Michael Boergens, Jan Clemens, Elsa Steinfath | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python |
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| Tool | DeepLabCut | toolbox for marker-less pose estimation of of user-defined features with deep learning for all animals including humans, performing various tasks | https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut | Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Jesse Lauer, Tanmay Nath, | data analysis/viz open-source python software video |
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| Tool | DeepMeerkat | tool for background subtraction & image classification for stationary cameras in ecological videos using machine learning models | http://benweinstein.weebly.com/deepmeerkat.html | Ben Weinstein | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz images open-source software video |
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| Tool | Digikam | open-source platform for photo management & storage | https://www.digikam.org/ | Gilles Caulier, Maik Qualmann, Marcel Wiesweg, Mario Frank, Simon Frei | camera trap data management images open-source |
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| Tool | Diopsis | camera trap set-up designed for insects; has 4G connectability & solar-powered; COSMONiO deep learning software id's insect taxa & draws bounding boxes in images; can estimate insect weight | https://diopsis.eu/en/camera/ | Naturalis Center | the Netherlands | camera trap data analysis/viz hardware images software terrestrial video |
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| Tool | Distance Estimation Toolbox | can automatically detect animals in camera trap images & measure their distance to the camera, to later perform abundance estimation using CTDS, REM, etc. | https://timm.haucke.xyz/publications/distance-estimation-animal-abundance | Timm Haucke | Bonn | Germany | AI/ML camera traps images python software terrestrial |
| Tool | DynAIkonTrap | AI-enabled camera trap design targeted at Raspberry Pi platform; analyzes continuous stream from camera attached to Raspberry Pi to detect animals, so system doesn't rely on secondary sensors like PIR | https://dynaikon.com/trap-docs/ | camera trap data analysis/viz education hardware images open-source terrestrial video |
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| Tool | Earth HQ | planetary data visualizer with near-real-time data, has climate alerts (fires, coral reef bleaching, etc.); combines scientific data & engaging visualization techniques with storytelling power of environmental news media | https://earthhq.org/ | Global Commons Alliance, Mongabay, nullschool.earth, World Resources Institute | climate data analysis/viz education geospatial software |
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| Tool | Earth Map | web-based tool for quick multi-temporal environmental & climate analysis based on Google Earth Engine; can overlay many geospatial layers over time | https://earthmap.org/ | United Nations FAO's Open Foris Initiative | climate data analysis/viz geospatial open-source remote sensing |
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| Tool | eBird | citizen science mobile app to track your bird lists & photos, ID sightings; data document bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, trends through checklist data | https://ebird.org/home | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Ithaca, New York | USA | academic lab bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz data management education images mobile app networking video |
| Tool | Echidna | terrestrial lidar instrument (from CSIRO) allows rapid acquisition of vegetation structure data that can be integrated with airborne & spaceborne lidar to create 3-D reconstructions | https://www.umb.edu/spectralmass/lidar/evi | U Massachusetts | Boston, Massachusetts | USA | data analysis/viz geospatial hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | EcoAssist | no-code interface for using the MegaDetector ML model to analyze camera trap images | https://github.com/PetervanLunteren/EcoAssist | Peter van Lunteren | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz images open-source software terrestrial |
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| Tool | Ecosounds | repository of environmental audio recordings; facilitates management, access, visualization & analysis of environmental acoustic data; uses Acoustic Workbench software open source on GitHub | https://www.ecosounds.org/ | QUT Ecoacoustics Group | Queensland | Australia | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management software |
| Tool | EDD MapS (Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System) | web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species & pest distribution; maximize the effectiveness & accessibility of invasive species observations recorded | https://www.eddmaps.org/ | Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health @ University of Georgia | Georgia | USA | citizen science data-/bio-logging education geospatial images local capacity building software terrestrial |
| Tool | EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry & Exploration) | flexible classroom teaching modules using large, publicly available datasets to engage students in STEM & improve their quantitative reasoning | https://serc.carleton.edu/eddie/index.html | Catherine O'Reilly, Cailin Huyck Orr, Thomas Meixner, Dax Soule, Rebekka Darner | USA | climate education open-source |
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| Tool | eDNA R Shiny app | for modeling eDNA scores (number of positive qPCR replicates); accounts for probabilities of false positive & false negative errors in field & lab when estimating probability of species presence using single-species eDNA data; model fitted using Bayesian approach | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/edna/ | Alex Diana, Jim Griffin, Eleni Matechou, Richard Griffiths, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis, Andrew Buxton, | data analysis/viz eDNA/genetics open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | Elephant Survey System (ESS) | suite of open-source software & hardware that can be used to reduce the manual effort & resources involved in aerial surveys of elephants | https://wildeyeconservation.org/elephant-survey-system/ | WildEye & Innoventix | South Africa | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management geospatial hardware images open-source remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Tool | Elephant Tracking & Geofencing | elephant tracking collars for real-time GPS locations to avoid elephant-human conflict; alert system when data abnormal (potential poaching event); have geofences set up that ping locals/stakeholders when an elephant passes the fence | https://www.savetheelephants.org/project/tracking-real-time-monitoring-app/, AND https://www.savetheelephants.org/project/geo-fencing/ | Save the Elephants | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware local capacity building terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | eMammal | data management system & archive for camera trap research projects; citizen scientists aid scientists in photo collection; 110 projects from 22 countries; eMammal Lite is animal ID game | https://emammal.si.edu/ | Smithsonian | Washington DC | USA | camera trap citizen science data management education images mobile app software video |
| Tool | ESRI Elephant Detection Package | deep learning model to detect elephants in aerial imagery trained on 2019 Aerial Elephant Dataset | https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4976292298c440e686aa339e52da2dbb | ESRI Analytics Team | Redlands, California | United States | AI/ML geospatial images open-source python remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | European Biodiversity Portal | offers access to biodiversity observations & ecological data (& essential biodiversity variables), statistics, & analyses of changes over time, along with tools for sharing or discovering data & products generated by scientific & analytical processes; aquamaps, citizen science projects, species distribution models | http://biodiversity.eubon.eu/home | EU BON | citizen science data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education geospatial GPS images marine/aquatic networking open-source remote sensing software terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | FathomNet | open-source image database that can be used to train, test & validate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms to help us underst& our ocean & its inhabitants | http://fathomnet.org/fathomnet/#/ | Kakani Katija, Ben Woodward, Grace Young, Gilbert Montague, Genevieve Flaspohler, Joshua Gyllinsky | Moss Landing, California | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management education images marine/aquatic open-source |
| Tool | Fin Finder | AI tool to identify shark or ray species when users upload a photo of a fin; app analyzes the shape and patterns on the fin. | https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/new-app-launched-to-help-in-fight-against-illegal-trade-of-shark-and-ray-fins | The National Parks Board, Conservation International, Microsoft Singapore | Singapore | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz images local capacity building marine/aquatic mobile app |
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| Tool | Firetail | movement ecology & bio-logging software that has functions for GPS annotations, interpreting accelerometer data, visualize animal tracks; can work offline; integrated with Movebank, different sensor types/manufacturers | https://www.firetail.de | SchŠeuffelhut Berger | Unterhaching, Bavaria | Germany | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management GPS software tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | Fisheries Analytical Capacity Tool | fisheries intelligence management & analytical system; capturing & analysing the identities & characteristics of the global fishing fleet & the companies that operate it; looking at vessel movements, identity, authorisations, operators, if vessels/companies are involved in violations of fisheries law | https://www.tm-tracking.org/our-tools | Trygg Mat Tracking | Oslo (HQ) | Norway (HQ) | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management GPS marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
| Tool | Fishnet.ai | AI training data for fisheries, from boats carrying electronic monitoring systems, creating open library of training data to accelerate implementation of AI in fisheries | https://www.fishnet.ai/ | The Nature Conservancy | AI/ML data analysis/viz marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | FishSounds | comprehensive, global inventory of fish sound production research as well as recordings library that includes 1100+ species observed | https://fishsounds.net/index.js | Audrey Looby, Amalis Riera, Sarah Vela, Kieran Cox, Santiago Bravo, Rodney Rountree, Francis Juanes, Laura K. Reynolds, Charles W. Martin, University of Victoria, University of Florida, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Meridian, FishBase | bioacoustics data management marine/aquatic open-source software |
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| Tool | FlightR | R package to position animals with solar geolocation archival tags | https://github.com/eldarrak/FLightR | Eldar Rakhimberdiev, Julia Karagicheva, Jordan Biserkov, Auriel Fournier | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Flora Incognita | take of picture of a plant & upload, app uses AI to ID the plant (currently for >4800 species); links to plant fact sheets; people can save observations for citizen-science based research | https://floraincognita.com/ | Patrick MŠder, Jana WŠldchen | AI/ML citizen science mobile app terrestrial |
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| Tool | FlukeBook's Tweet-a-Whale project | take a picture of a whale in the wild & tweet it to @tweetawhale, theyÕll help you identify it; works for 8 whale species | https://www.flukebook.org/ | WildMe | AI/ML citizen science data analysis/viz education images |
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| Tool | Force for Nature Ranger app | designed by rangers, for rangers to share knowledge, channel resources, improve support, connect with the community | https://www.forcefornature.org/rangers | Jamie McCallum (Peace Parks) | London | UK | education local capacity building mobile app networking wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | Forest Inspector | map-based presentation of timber transports in real-time with transparency on forest management plans & harvest authorizations; users can report illegal activity & trucks/companies not listed, https://eia-global.org/videos/20200428-how-to-use-forest-inspector | https://inspectorulpadurii.ro/#/ | Romanian government | Romania | citizen science data analysis/viz education GPS mobile app wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Forest Scanner app | iPhone/iPad application that allows LiDAR-based tree measurement; diameter at breast height error within 2cm; record GPS coordinates; Android app under development | https://forest-scanner.com/ | Mapry, Inc. | Tamba-shi, Hyogo-ken | Japan | data analysis/viz GPS images mobile app remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | Forest Watcher | brings online forest monitoring & alert systems of Global Forest Watch offline & into the field to monitor areas of interest, view deforestation & fire alerts, navigate to a point & collect info, regardless of connectivity | https://forestwatcher.globalforestwatch.org/ | Global Forest Watch/WRI | data analysis/viz geospatial local capacity building mobile app remote sensing software |
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| Tool | FOSSA (Free and Open Source Software for Acoustics) | streamlined approach to analyzing passive acoustic data, including species classification; Two packages: PAMpal (incorporates acoustic detections generated in PAMGuard with visual survey data), BANTER (event-based classification) | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/fossa | NOAA Southwest Acoustic Ecology Lab | La Jolla, California | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics citizen science data analysis/viz images marine/aquatic open-source software |
| Tool | Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) | geospatial platform & registry of restoration initiatives (aggregates data from different sites); official monitoring platform for tracking global progress & disseminating good practices for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration | https://ferm.fao.org/ | United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) | data management geospatial images open-source remote sensing software |
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| Tool | GDL2/GDL3 | miniaturized geolocator tracker; 0.5g device for exclusive recording of positioning data & 1.3g device with additional sensors for temperature, air pressure, acceleration, etc. | https://www.vogelwarte.ch/en/projects/bird-migration/tracking-devices-miniaturized-geolocators | Swiss Ornithological Institute & Bern Univ of Applied Sciences | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | GeoEye | Earth-imaging satellite; revisits any point on Earth at least once every 3 days | https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/geoeye-1 | DigitalGlobe | USA | geospatial hardware remote sensing |
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| Tool | GFS Marine Manager | online open-access portal to monitor activity in marine environments, design & implement protected areas, improve governance of fisheries, sensitive habitats and maritime activity globally | https://globalfishingwatch.org/map/marine-manager | Global Fishing Watch | data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS local capacity building marine/aquatic remote sensing software |
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| Tool | gibbonR | R package for classification, detection & visualization of acoustic signals using machine learning; makes commonly used signal processing techniques & various machine learning algorithms readily available via R | https://github.com/DenaJGibbon/gibbonR-package | Dena Clink, Holger Klinck | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | Global Biodiversity Explorer | large database of datasets, imagery, tools related to biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide | https://spatialagent.org/Biodiversity/ | World Bank | data analysis/viz education geospatial open-source remote sensing |
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| Tool | Global Environmental Crime Tracker | central public database of illegal wildlife & timber activity (pulls from publicly available info, media coverage); currently for Asia, Africa & Europe | https://eia-international.org/global-environmental-crime-tracker/ | Environmental Investigation Agency | data management education local capacity building open-source terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Google Earth Engine | combines multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery & geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities & makes it available to anyone; tools include: timelapses, ready-to-use datasets, API in Python & Java, web-based code editor, all on Google's cloud computing platform | https://earthengine.google.com/ | AI/ML climate data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS marine/aquatic python remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Tool | GOOS BioEco Metadata Portal | open-access, online platform that visualizes data from global ocean observation & monitoring programs of biological & ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables | https://bioeco.goosocean.org/ | GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) | Paris | France | climate data analysis/viz data management education geospatial marine/aquatic open-source software tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | GUANO | Gr& Unified Acoustic Notation Ontology for Bats; universal, open medata format for acoustic recordings | https://guano-md.org/ | bioacoustics data management open-source terrestrial |
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| Tool | Horizon | open source plug-and-play solution for those who want to develop their own custom telemtery solutions; used to track plastic waste; developer kit includes GPS, bluetooth, 9-axis accelerometer, 3G cellular & Argos Arctic transmitter; can configure/modify settings using Python tools over USB or bluetooth | https://arribada.org/horizon/ | Arribada Initiative | data-/bio-logging data management GPS hardware open-source python tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Hotspot Chiangrai | pulls hotspot data from the NASAÕs MODIS satellite-based sensor to visualize, in near real time, fire hotspot locations; sends alerts to firefighters & communities and plots shortest path to fire, details admin boundaries | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geolabth.hotspot_chiangrai&hl=en&gl=US | Nion Sirimongkonlertkul | Chiang Rai | Thailand | citizen science GPS local capacity building mobile app remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | i of the Elephant | mobile app for anyone to use to report where ivory is being illicitly sold; reports & images submitted may be reported to wildlife authorities for investigation | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/i-of-the-elephant/id1330680069 | Biologists without Borders | San Rafael, California | USA | citizen science mobile app software wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | iBeaver | data collection tool that can record the location of a userÕs observation & prompt them to answer series of survey questions to collect data on beaver presence/absence & suitable habitat | https://defenders-cci.org/publication/ibeaver/ | Center for Conservation Innovation, Defenders of Wildlife | Washington DC | United States | citizen science data management GPS mobile app tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | iButton | dataloggers ($20-$100); small, low-cost sensor that can log temp/humidity in field for long-term deployments | https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/ibutton-one-wire/ibutton.html | Maxim Integrated | San Jose, California | USA | data-/bio-logging hardware |
| Tool | IDtrees | machine learning ready datasets for tree detection & species classification. Benchmark dataset on tree detection: https://github.com/weecology/NeonTreeEvaluation & a past data science competition: https://idtrees.org/competition/ | https://idtrees.org/ | Weecology Lab - University of Florida | Florida | USA | academic lab AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial open-source terrestrial |
| Tool | iNaturalist | citizen science app to record wildlife sighting observations, share with other users, discuss findings; data shared with GBIF to help scientists use the data; runs bioblitz eventzs | https://www.inaturalist.org/ | National Geographic, California Academy of Sciences | bioacoustics citizen science data management education events images mobile app networking video |
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| Tool | Instant Detect | threat monitoring system combining low power sensors, camera traps & acoustic sensors to detect humans & wildlife; data sent in real-time via satellite to online data management tool; early warning system of illegal activity like packing | https://www.zsl.org/conservation/how-we-work/conservation-technology/instant-detect | Zoological Society London (ZSL) | London | UK | bioacoustics camera trap data analysis/viz data management hardware images IoT remote sensing software video wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | INSTINCT | automatic event detection framework for passive acoustic archival data | https://github.com/DanWoodrich/INSTINCT | Daniel Woodrich (NOAA) | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz marine/aquatic open-source software |
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| Tool | Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool | host & maintain IUCN Red List, Protected Planet database on Protected Areas, World Database of Key Biodiverity Areas; authoritative biodiversity data for decision-making | https://www.ibat-alliance.org/ | UNEP WCMC, IUCN, Conservational International, BirdLife International | consulting data management education geospatial |
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| Tool | Investeggator | artificial sea turtle eggs that house GSM-GPS tracking devices; placed in nests that are at high risk to poaching; after eggs extracted from a nest, their movements will be monitored & mapped to combat illegal egg trade | https://investeggator.com/ | Paso Pacifico | data-/bio-logging GPS hardware remote sensing tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | IPCC Interactive Atlas | tool for flexible spatial & temporal analyses of observed & project climate change info from IPCC 6th assessment, including regional synthesis for climatic impact-drivers | https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/ | IPCC | climate consulting data analysis/viz |
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| Tool | iris (Intelligently Reinforced Image Segmentation) | python package for manual image segmentation & classification of satellite imagery (or any images); accelerates creation of machine learning training datasets for Earth Observation; flask app run locally | https://github.com/ESA-PhiLab/iris | European Space Agency Phi-Lab | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial images open-source python remote sensing |
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| Tool | Ishmael | open-access bioacoustic analysis software; includes displays of waveforms & spectrograms, recording capability for real-time input, methods for acoustic localization, beamforming, several methods for automatic call recognition & sound annotation facility; | http://bioacoustics.us/ishmael.html | David Mellinger, CIMRS Bioacoustics Lab, Oregon State University | Newport, Oregon | United States | bioacoustics data analysis/viz software |
| Tool | IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology Data Visualization Tool | comprehensive classification framework for EarthÕs ecosystems to help identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management & human wellbeing | https://global-ecosystems.org | David A. Keith, JosŽ R. Ferrer-Paris, Emily Nicholson, IUCN | Australia | data analysis/viz geospatial marine/aquatic terrestrial |
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| Tool | Kaleidoscope | bioacoustic analysis software, $200/year; has built in cluster analysis, SPL analysis, ecoacoustic indix calculations tools | https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/products/kaleidoscope-pro | Wildlife Acoustics | bioacoustics data analysis/viz software |
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| Tool | Kapikaat | solar-powered bioacoustic sound system to repel monkeys from crop-raiding, invading agricultural land | https://katidhan.com/wildlife-tech/kapikaat/ | Katidhan | Bengaluru, Karnataka | India | bioacoustics hardware terrestrial |
| Tool | Ketos python package | software package for acoustic data analysis with neural networks; developed with a particular eye to detection and classification tasks in underwater acoustics; uses TensorFlow, NumPy | https://meridian.cs.dal.ca/2015/04/12/ketos/ | MERIDIAN Data Analytics Team, Institute for Big Data Analytics, Dalhousie University | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python |
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| Tool | KiloCam | low-cost time-lapse camera designed to make habitat monitoring more accessible; fits inside GoPro or third-party housings for easy waterproof deployment | https://www.ecologisconsulting.com/products/p/kilocam-pcb-v10 | EcoLogis | Honolulu, Hawaii | United States | camera traps data-/bio-logging hardware images marine/aquatic terrestrial |
| Tool | Koogu | python package for developing & using machine learning solutions in animal bioacoustics | https://pypi.org/project/koogu/ | Shyam Madhusudhana | Ithaca, New York | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management python software |
| Tool | Lab-on-a-Fish | autonomous mobile biotelemetry sensor that combines edge computing with wireless sensing of in vivo physiological, behavioral & environmental variables; capable of transmitting raw data in real time & storing on-board; can provide 3-D locations of tagged animal | https://www.pnnl.gov/available-technologies/lab-on-a-fish | Pacific Northwest National Lab | Richland, Washington | USA | data-/bio-logging hardware marine/aquatic tracking/telemetry |
| Tool | LandPKS | L& Potential Knowledge System (PKS); free mobile app for anyone to monitor their l& over time; tracks soil health, vegetation cover, l& management, etc.; can collect, share & analyze site-specific data; also has desktop data portal | https://landpotential.org/ | USAID | climate citizen science data-/bio-logging data management local capacity building mobile app open-source software |
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| Tool | LILA BC | Labeled Information Library of Alexandria: Biology & Conservation (LILA BC); repository for data sets related to biology & conservation; hosts labeled/annotated training & test datasets, mostly images but some acoustic datasets as well | https://lila.science/ | Zooniverse, Evolving AI Lab, Snapshot Safari, Microsoft AI for Earth, Univ of Minnesota | AI/ML bioacoustics data management images marine/aquatic open-source terrestrial video |
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| Tool | Macaulay library | wildlife media archive for photos, videos & audio; data available for research, educational & commerical use; individuals can contribute their media to the archive; integrated with eBird | https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/ | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | bioacoustics data managament images marine/aquatic software terrestrial video |
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| Tool | Manta ID | underwater camera trap for identifying manta rays; Arduino-based; currently not in development? | https://ando.xyz/work/manta-id | Ando Shah, Daan van Duinkerken | camera traps hardware images marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | Mapbox | app with real-time map visualizations, turn-by-turn routing, studio to design your own custom maps, data dashboard, movement data, etc. | https://www.mapbox.com/ | data analysis/viz geospatial mobile app |
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| Tool | Mapeo | free digital toolset for documenting, monitoring & mapping different types of geospatial & observational data; offline functionality, open source, mobile app; used by many Indigenous groups | https://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/ | Digital Democracy | citizen science geospatial GPS local capacity building mobile app open-source software |
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| Tool | Mataki | GPS tracking system; tag device (10g or 3g option) with unique ID# attached to animal & tracking info collected by tags sent to base station over radio link; data uploaded from base station to PC | http://www.debuginnovations.com/mataki/home.html | Debug Innovations Ltd. | geospatial GPS hardware remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Mbaza AI | desktop application that allows conservation researchers to classify camera trap animal images & analyze the results | https://github.com/Appsilon/mbaza | Appsilon | camera traps data analysis/viz images python terrestrial |
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| Tool | Megadetector | image detection software for processing camera trap data; can detect animals, people & vehicles; integration with TimeLapse, eMammal, digiKam; cloud computing (Azure); can be packaged into API's for real-time detection | https://github.com/microsoft/CameraTraps/blob/master/megadetector.md | Sara Beery, Microsoft AI for Earth | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management images python software |
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| Tool | Merlin Sound ID | listens to birds & shows real-time suggestions for species singing; can compare your recordings to calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard | https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/ | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | bioacoustics citizen science software mobile app |
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| Tool | MERMAID | Marine Ecological Research Management AID; online/offline platform that allows scientists anywhere in the world to collect, analyze & share field-based coral reef surveys | https://dashboard.datamermaid.org/ | WCS, WWF, Sparkgeo | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management images software |
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| Tool | MLWIC2 | can be used to automatically classify camera trap images or to train new models for image classification; contains two pre-trained models: one identifies 58 species & empty images & the one distinguishes between images with animals & those that are empty; also contains Shiny apps for running the functions | https://github.com/mikeyEcology/MLWIC2 | Michael Tabak, et al. | data analysis/viz images open-source python R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | momentuHMM | R package for analysis of telemetry data using generalized multivariate hidden Markov models of animal movement | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/momentuHMM/vignettes/momentuHMM.pdf | Brett McClintock, Theo Michelot | open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | monitoR | acoustic template detection & monitoring database interface; create, modify, save, & use templates for detection of animal vocalizations; upload a MySQL schema, manage survey metadata, write & read templates & detections locally or to database | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/monitoR/index.html | Sasha Hafner, Jon Katz | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | move | contains functions to access movement data stored in movebank.org, tools to visualize & statistically analyze animal movement data, calculate dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models, to address movement ecology questions | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/move/index.html | Bart Kranstauber, Marco Smolla, Anne Scharf | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | MoveApps | no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data using data from Movebank or cloud storage; can build, share & publish analysis workflows | https://www.moveapps.org/ | Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | data analysis/viz data management GPS networking open-source tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Movebank | free, online database of animal tracking; to manage, share, protect, analyze & archive wildlife tracking data; can explore open data with visualization tool; has data on >1000 species, billions of location points | https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-main | Max Plank Institute of Animal Behavior | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz data management geospatial open-source software remote sensing |
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| Tool | moveHMM | provides tools for animal movement modeling using hidden Markov models; includes processing of tracking data, fitting hidden Markov models to movement data, visualization of data & fitted model & decoding of the state process | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/moveHMM/index.html | Theo Michelot, Roland Langrock, Toby Patterson, Brett McClintock, Eric Rexstad | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | moveVis | provides tools to visualize movement data (e.g. from GPS tracking) & temporal changes of environmental data (e.g. from remote sensing) by creating video animations | http://movevis.org/index.html | Jakob Schwalb-Willmann | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | MovingPandas | Python library for handling movement data; provides trajectory data structures & functions for movement data exploration & analysis | https://anitagraser.github.io/movingpandas/ | Anita Graser | data analysis/viz open-source python software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | MSTrIPES | a platform to assist effective patrolling, assess ecological status & mitigate human-wildlife conflict in & around tiger reserves | https://ntca.gov.in/our-work-m-stripes/#m-stripes | National Tiger Conservation Authority | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS images local capacity building mobile app remote sensing software terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | My Gorilla Family app | app to get all-access pass to a real mountain gorilla family, with updates from rangers, daily statuses, etc.; meant as alternative (to tourism) revenue-generating mechanism & to increase awareness, interest & direct involvement in gorilla conservation | https://gorilla.family/ | The Naturalist | Uganda | education mobile app terrestrial |
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| Tool | Name That Fish | can upload underwater videos & ML model will draw bounding boxes & classify species | https://www.namethatfish.com/ | Jake Easterling of Scubotics | AI/ML images marine/aquatic software video |
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| Tool | Nature Conservation Databases List | list of conservation databases compiling resources & data from different sources | https://rubberbootsdata.com/resources/nature-conservation-databases/ | Frank van der Most | Tallinn | Estonia | citizen science data management education marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | NatureCounts | biodiversity data repository; contains data on distribution & abundance of Canadian bird species; online platform data viz platform& mobile app | https://naturecounts.ca/nc/default/main.jsp | Birds Canada, Avian Knowledge Network | Port Rowan, Ontario | Canada | citizen science data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz data management education local capacity building mobile app |
| Tool | Natusfera | digital citizen science platform for Europe; record plant/animal observations, connect with other users, & report invasive species | https://atlasofthefuture.org/project/natusfera/ | CREAF (Barcelona), GBIF | Spain | citizen science education networking open-source software |
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| Tool | Nocturnal Bird Flight Call Database | quick-reference guide to nocturnal flight calls of many North American birds, collected via passive acoustic recordings | https://nocturnalflightcalls.com/ | Tessa Rhinehart, John Kearney | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz terrestrial |
| Tool | Nocturnal Bird Migration GitLab | developing a tool to optimize the use of bioacoustics to follow birds' nocturnal migration | https://gitlab.com/nbm.challenge/nbm-nocturnal-bird-migration | Adrien Pajot, Biophonia, Natural Solutions | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source terrestrial |
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| Tool | OBIS-SEAMAP | Ocean Biodiversity Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations; center for marine mammal, seabird, sea turtle, shark & ray distributions with >7 million records from 1500+ datasets; includes individual ID datasets for cetaceans (fins) & sea turtles; marine protected area maps/modeling tools to visualize species density; publishes to GBIF | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/ | Duke University | bioacoustics camera trap citizen science data-/bio-logging data management geospatial GPS images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Observation.org | the iNaturalist of Europe (started in the Netherlands), citizen science-based global observation system with species registry (GBIF) for data collection of validated field data from anyone | https://observation.org/ | Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Natuurpunt, Natagora, Zostera | bioacoustics citizen science data management education images mobile app networking software video |
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| Tool | Ocean Vision AI | gamified platform where people can help annotate underwater imaging for training/improving machine learning models; creating data aggregation & processing pipelines | https://www.mbari.org/ocean-vision-ai-announcement/ | Kakani Katija, MBARI | Moss Landing, California | USA | AI/ML camera traps citizen science data analysis/viz data management education images marine/aquatic networking video |
| Tool | ohun R package | facilitate the automated detection of sound events, providing functions to diagnose & optimize detection routines; can use reference annotations for detection diagnostics & optimization & use signal detection theory indices to evaluate detection performance | https://marce10.github.io/ohun/index.html | Marcelo Araya-Salas | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management R/Rstudio |
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| Tool | Open Ocean Cam | underwater camera trap, 1-4 weeks battery life, 2TB storage, smartphone app, 1080p images/videos, up to 400m depth, open-source; can upload data to cloud & run AI model to classify species | https://openoceancam.com/ | AI/ML camera trap hardware images marine/aquatic open-source video |
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| Tool | Open Soundscape | free, open-source software for analysis of bioacoustic recordings; allow users to train custom species classification models & predict presence/occupanyc/etc; can be run on single computer, cluster or cloud | http://opensoundscape.org/en/latest/ | Kitzes Lab, Univ of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python software |
| Tool | OpenTreeMap | platform for crowdsourced urban tree inventory & community engagement | https://github.com/OpenTreeMap | Justin Walgran, Rocky Breslow, Michael Maurizi, D Boyer | citizen science data-/bio-logging education local capacity building |
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| Tool | OrcaSound | open source project building web interface for listening to orcas as they swim past different hydrophones in the Puget Sound; citizen scientists can also listen to live underwater recordings & label orca calls & other interesting sounds that they hear | https://www.orcasound.net/ | Sound Action, Pacific Mammal Research, Center for Whale Research, Whale Trail, FOLKS, Oceans Initiative, Whale Scout, Cetacean Research Tech, Orca Behavior Institute & others | bioacoustics citizen science data management marine/aquatic software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | PAMGuard | open-source PAM software based on platform-independent, flexible, modular architecture; extensive documentation & support for users & developers (has API); aimed at marine mammals but can be used for terrestrial; has detection models built in | https://www.pamguard.org/ | Heriot-Watt Univ, Ecologic, E&P Sound & Marine Life Program, Oregan State Univ, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | AI/ML bioacoustics open-source software |
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| Tool | PAMpal | R package for processing passive acoustic data; currently supports data collected using Pamguard; built to organize your acoustic detections into events | https://taikisan21.github.io/PAMpal/ | Taiki Sakai, (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | United States | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management marine/aquatic open-source R/Rstudio |
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| Tool | Parabraksh | solar-powered autonomous light deterrent system to non-invasively keep wild animals (elephants, tigers, etc.) away from crop & livestock land; programmed flashing patterns deter animals & protect fields | https://katidhan.com/wildlife-tech/parabraksh/ | Katidhan | Bengaluru, Karnataka | India | hardware remote sensing terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | Pika Patrol App | allows you to record observations of American pikas; teaches you to identify them by sight, calls, scat, etc. | https://pikapartners.org/pikapatrol/ | Colorado Pika Project, Dr. Johanna Varner | Colorado | USA | bioacoustics citizen science data-/bio-logging education images mobile app terrestrial |
| Tool | Pl@ntNet | identify plants from a picture; citizen science app; 28,000 species identified | https://plantnet.org/en/ | Floris'Tic | citizen science educationimages images |
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| Tool | Planetary Computer | combines multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs & apps; has data catalog, Hub (development environment)-open-source; integrated apps - Marxan, PrevisIA, Impact Observatory's system, forest carbon tracking | https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/ | Microsoft | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS marine/aquatic remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Tool | PoacherCam | anti-poaching trail cam with motion-triggered detection system to instantly distinguish between people & animals; has invisible infrared flash, sends images & locations to law enforcement officials in real-time via wireless networks | https://www.panthera.org/conservation-technology/poachercam | Panthera | AI/ML camera trap data management images IoT video wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Polar Bear Tracker | open-source, Argos- & Iridium-based tracking device (ear tag) for polar bears; has automated release mechanism; battery life up to 6 months; internal antenna | https://github.com/MistyWest/polarTracker | Misty West, IDEO, USA Fish & Wildlife Services, World Wildlife Fund | GPS hardware IoT open-source remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Polytrack 2.0 | designed to track multiple species of insect pollinators in complex environments & monitor their pollination behavior; uses a combination of foreground-background segmentation & deep learning-based detection | https://github.com/malikaratnayake/Polytrack2.0 | Malika Ratnayake | AI/ML data analysis/viz images open-source python software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Project Inambari | open mapping platform using publicly available Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite imagery combined with other data streams (like drone images) for detecting tropical forest mining | https://www.artisanalminingchallenge.com/semi-finalists/project-inambari | Bjorn Bergman, Christian Thomas, Dan Cogswell, John Amos, Alice Foster, Ryan Covington, Amy Mathews, Jorge Caballero, Miles Silman, Paœl Pauca, Sarra Alqahtani | Houston, Texas Shepherdstown, West Virginia Santa Fe, New Mexico Boston, Massachusetts Milwaukee, Wisconsin Puerto Maldonado Winston-Salem, North Carolina | USA Peru | data analysis/viz drones/AUV's geospatial local capacity building open-source remote sensing software terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | Project SEEKER | multi-species AI model to detect illegal wildlife trafficking at airports; can be installed into luggage/cargo scanners & automatically alert enforcement agencies when it detects an illegal wildlife item; 70% success rate in trials so far, particularly good for ivory products | https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2021/11/18/first-of-its-kind-multispecies-ai-model-to-detect-illegal-wildlife-trafficking-is-ready-to-roll-out-to-airports/ | Microsoft, Smiths Detection, United for Wildlife | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz images software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Protection Assistance for Wildlife Security (PAWS) | builds predictive models based on past poaching activity; now a feature in SMART- Predictive Patrol Planning; provides an automated approach that generates efficient & randomized patrol schedules; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119376866.ch10 | https://github.com/lily-x/PAWS-public | Lily Xu, Milind Tambe (Harvard), Microsoft | AI/ML data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz geospatial local capacity building open-source software terrestrial wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | RangerBot | autonomous underwater vehicle project focused on developing deployable robotic systems to help reef managers & other conservation groups upscale underwater monitoring of reefs; developing real-time image processing techniques | https://research.qut.edu.au/qcr/Projects/rangerbot/ | QUT Centre for Robotics & Great Barrier Reef Foundation | AI/ML camera trap data analysis/viz hardware images marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | Raven (Lite, Pro) | bioacoustic analysis software; has energy-detection models built-in, great for extracting bioacoustic measurements | https://ravensoundsoftware.com/software/raven-pro/ | Cornell Center for Conservation Bioacoustics | Ithaca, New York | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz software |
| Tool | Raven-X | Matlab-based tool set to integrate high-performance computing (HPC) technologies and bioacoustics data-mining capabilities; hardware-independent solution/framework for processing large acoustic data sets | https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/raven-x/ | Cornell Center for Conservation Bioacoustics | Ithaca, New York | United States | bioacoustics data analysis/viz data management software |
| Tool | Reference-less Distance Estimation | automatically measures distances to animals & tracks them in camera trap images/video without needing reference footage; may be used for estimating animal abundance using camera trap distance sampling (CTDS), random encounter model (REM), etc. | https://github.com/PJ-cs/DistanceEstimationTracking | Peter Johanns | Bonn | Germany | AI/ML camera traps images open-source python software video |
| Tool | Reforestation Directory | global directory of reforestation & tree-planting projects is a starting point for people wanting to fund reforestation; uses 36 criteria in different categories: context, ecological, economic, social, institutional | https://reforestation.app/ | Mongabay | data analysis/viz education funding geospatial |
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| Tool | Regreening Africa App | providing evidence on where restoration is happening, methods used & who are the beneficiaries; can locate where exotic tree species are replacing indigenous species & recommends actions based on evidence | https://www.worldagroforestry.org/blog/2021/01/13/mobile-application-helps-african-farmers-manage-and-restore-their-land | Regreening Africa | Nairobi | Kenya | climate data management geospatial local capacity building mobile app software terrestrial |
| Tool | Restoration Barometer | tool to track the progress of restoration targets across all terrestrial ecosystems; used by 22 countries thus far; for governments to simplify & streamline reporting on their restoration commitments | https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tool/restoration-barometer | IUCN | data analysis/viz data management local capacity building remote sensing software terrestrial |
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| Tool | RhoDIS (Rhino DNA Index System) | database that will match seized rhino horns with carcasses/reference DNA samples from national parks, reserves, game farms, zoos | https://www.wwfindia.org/news_facts/feature_stories/rhodis_india_forensic_science_to_the_rescue_of_rhinos/ | University of Pretoria, South African National Parks | South Africa | data management eDNA/genetics GPS terrestrial tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Ropeless Fisher | ropeless fishing system using pop-up buoys & acoustic sonar to transmit signal when vessel is near, triggers acoustic release mechanism so buoys/traps float to surface; offshore & coastal systems | https://www.desertstar.com/ropeless-fishing | Desert Star Systems | consulting drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | satellite-image-deep-learning | repository of datasets, learning materials, methods for deep learning applied to satellite & aerial imagery | https://github.com/satellite-image-deep-learning | Robin Cole | UK | AI/ML data analysis/viz education geospatial GPS open-source remote sensing |
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| Tool | scikit-maad | dedicated to the quantitative analysis of environmental audio recordings; designed to load & process digital audio, segment & find regions of interest, compute acoustic features & estimate sound pressure level; to measure acoustic properties & identify key patterns in soundscapes | https://scikit-maad.github.io/ | Juan Sebastian Ulloa, JŽr™me Sueur, Thierry Aubin, Sylvain Haupert, Juan Felipe Latorre | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python software |
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| Tool | Scout | AI-enabled software app designed to support annotators & lab leads processing imagery for the KavangoÐZambezi Conservation Area aerial survey of animals | https://github.com/WildMeOrg/scout | WildMe | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management geospatial local capacity building open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Sea Turtle Photo ID app | citizen science mobile app to identify individual sea turtles from photos; also nest monitoring & bycatch modules of the map | https://baharihai.org/sea-turtle-photo-id/ | Bahari Hai | Watamu | Kenya | citizen science images local capacity building marine/aquatic mobile app tracking/telemetry wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | Seabird Tracking Database | largest collection/central database of seabird tracking data; can contribute your own data (has data sheet template) or request download from database; formerly 'Tracking Ocean Wanderers' | http://www.seabirdtracking.org/ | BirdLife International | data management GPS marine/aquatic terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | SEE Shell app | take a photo of a product you think could be illegal turtleshell & app will tell you instantly if it is or not with high degree of accuracy; contribute to studying illegal wildlife trade & identifying trade hotspots | https://www.seeturtles.org/see-shell | See Turtles | AI/ML citizen science images mobile app wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | SGAT | provides facilities for estimating broad-scale animal motions from archival or satellite tag data | https://github.com/SWotherspoon/SGAT | Simon Wotherspoon | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Shark Tracker | online real-time tracking platform for 430 tagged sharks from OCEARCH research expeditions on at-sea laboratory boat; also have mobile app (https://www.ocearch.org/app/) for tracking individual sharks | https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/ | OCEARCH, SeaWorld, Chris Fischer | data analysis/viz education GPS marine/aquatic mobile app remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | SharkTrace | digital traceability tool that tags & tracks sharks from capture to consumption to ensure transparency through supply chain; separate pages for onboard, offloading, in-transit, processing; trialled in Australia | https://www.traffic.org/sharktrace/ | TRAFFIC | consulting education marine/aquatic mobile app wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | SnapperGPS | location data logger system designed for wildlife tracking; in development; making a simple, low-power, low-cost system that can be accessible to conservationists globally | https://twitter.com/SnapperGPS | Amanda Mattes, Jonas Beuchert, Alex Rogers | UK | data-/bio-logging GPS marine/aquatic remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | SonoBat | bat call analysis software for automated classification of bat species in North America; free viewer app, licenses $380/year or $680-$1500 perpetual | https://sonobat.com/ | Joe Szewczak, Nick Szewczak | Arcata, California | USA | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz software terrestrial |
| Tool | Soundclim | scripts & modules to search for soundmarks in field audio recordings | https://github.com/PEM-Humboldt/soundclim | Instituto Humboldt Colombia | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python software |
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| Tool | Species Conservation Toolkit (SCTI) | "software for saving species"; makers of Vortex (extinction risk simulator), PMx (genetic/demographic management of captive populations), Outbreak (disease outbreak simulator), RAMAS & HexSim (population viability analysis) | https://scti.tools/ | Mgmt team: Jonathan Ballou, Robert Lacy, Onnie Byers, Sara Sullivan, Taylor Callicrate | data analysis/viz software |
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| Tool | Specky | spectrogram viewing Python app to label audio clips using combo of sound & spectrogram | https://github.com/rhine3/specky | Kitzes Lab at Univ of Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | USA | bioacoustics data analysis/viz python software |
| Tool | SpSeg (Species Segregator) | Megadetector-enabled machine learning tool (python) for species-level segregation/classification of camera-trap images; trained specifically for the Central Indian landscape | https://github.com/bhlab/SpSeg | BHLab | India | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz images open-source python terrestrial |
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| Tool | STOAT | Spatiotemporal Observation Annotation Tool; platform for annotation of spatiotemporal diversity data with values from remote sensing & other gridded environmental datasets | https://mol.org/stoat/ | Map of Life | geospatial data management remote sensing software |
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| Tool | TADARIDA | software toolbox allowing for detection & labelling of recorded sound events & to classify new acoustic data into known classes; made up of three modules (Detection, Labelling & Classification); deep learning module being developed | https://github.com/YvesBas?tab=repositories | Yves Bas, Emmanuel Leblond, Didier Bas, Charlotte Roemer | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | TALO database | global tree allometry and crown architecture database with geo-referenced & taxonomically standardized records of individual trees for which stem diameter, height and/or crown radius have been measured | https://github.com/selva-lab-repo/TALLO | Selva Lab, University of Bristol | Bristol | UK | academic lab GPS open-source R/Rstudio remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | Tank Watch | list of all commercially available, captive-bred saltwater fish in 'good fish' lists on mobile app to combat illegal trade; bad fish list has species taken unsustainably, not suitable for captivity, endangered, etc. | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ayslingdesign.tankwatch&hl=en&gl=US | For the Fishes | education marine/aquatic mobile app wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | TerrAdapt Cascadia | Dynamic Conservation Planning tool that provides up-to-date, climate-smart, regional-scale perspectives & local decision-making; based on monitoring lands, projecting future impacts | https://terradapt.org/regions/cascadia/ | TerrAdapt.org, Cascadia Partner Forum | Canada USA | AI/ML climate consulting data analysis/viz geospatial local capacity building remote sensing software |
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| Tool | Terrafuse AI | provides hyper-local climate risk scores powered by machine learning to prevent losses & boost decision-making accuracy; focuses on wildlife risk; use high-res earth observation datasets, models trained with 50+ environmental conditions; scores validated with historical/ground-truthed data | https://www.terrafuse.ai/ | Brian White, Hunter Connell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | California | USA | AI/ML climate consulting data analysis/viz geospatial remote sensing terrestrial |
| Tool | Tethys | free open-source temporal-spatial database for metadata related to acoustic recordings (started with marine mammal detection & localization) | https://tethys.sdsu.edu/ | NOAA, San Diego State Univ, Scripps Institute of Oceanography | USA | bioacoustics data management marine/aquatic terrestrial software |
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| Tool | The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) | low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or continuous power | https://conservationxlabs.com/nabit | Conservation X Labs, David Baisch, Hal Holmes | Seattle, Washington | USA | eDNA/genetics hardware wildlife crime prevention |
| Tool | TimberChain | from Preferred by Nature & iov42; combines blockchain tech, 3rd party certification & market knowledge for increasing traceability, ensuring data integrity, certifying/auditing timber supply chains | https://preferredbynature.org/blockchain | Preferred by Nature | consulting data analysis/viz software |
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| Tool | torchgeo | PyTorch domain library similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms & pre-trained models specific to geospatial data | https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo | Microsoft, Adam Stewart, Caleb Robinson, Isaac Corley, Anthony Ortiz, Juan Lavista Ferres, Arindam Banerjee | AI/ML data analysis/viz data management geospatial images open-source python remote sensing software |
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| Tool | track2KBA | comprised of functions that facilitate the identification of areas of importance for biodiversity, such as Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), based on individual tracking data | https://github.com/BirdLifeInternational/track2kba | BirdLife International, Jonathan Handley, Martin Beal, Steffen Oppel, Virginia Morera-Pujol, Lizzie Pearmain, | data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Trailguard | real-time anti-poaching camera-based alert system, camera trap with edge computing to detect poachers; sends pictures to authorities via GSM, long-range radio or satellite networks; variants - ForestGuard AI to detect logging trucks, WildEyes AI to detect animals to prevent human-wildlife conflict | http://impactatresolve.com/wildtech/ | WildTech@RESOLVE | AI/ML camera trap hardware images IoT video wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | Trajvis | visualise, animate & create videos of animal movement data from GPS tags | https://internetofelephants.github.io/trajvis/ | Internet of Elephants | GPS data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | TrapTagger | free, web-based app that uses AI to reduce workload for camera trap data annotation, organization & analysis | https://wildeyeconservation.org/traptagger/ | WildEye & Innoventix | South Africa | AI/ML camera traps data management images software terrestrial |
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| Tool | Trase | data-driven transparency initiative; supply chain & commodity mapping for corporate sustainability | http://www.trase.earth | Global Canopy | consulting data analysis/viz |
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| Tool | Triton | fisheries transparency portal; collaborative platform for regulators, enforcement, & society to explore ownership data behind worldÕs industrial fishing fleets; data viz & analytics functions | https://imsehawaii.org/2021-library/ewExternalFiles/Triton%20Portal%20Overview_IMCS_C4ADS.pdf | C4ADS | data analysis/viz data management marine/aquatic remote sensing software wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | TURT app | allows tour guides, snorkellers, scuba-divers, dive shops or any member of public to report sea turtle sightings; pictures added to database, uses pattern recognition software to identify individual turtles & monitor populations around the country | https://speseas.org/projects/sea-turtle-citizen-science/ | SpeSeas, Save our Sea Turtles | Trinidad & Tobago | AI/ML citizen science data management images marine/aquatic mobile app software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | TweetyNet | a neural network architecture that automates annotation of birdsong & other vocalizations by segmenting spectrograms & then labeling those segments | https://github.com/yardencsGitHub/tweetynet | Yarden Cohen, David Nicholson, Zhehao Cheng | AI/ML bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source python |
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| Tool | Twiga Tracker | largest GPS satellite tracking study ever for giraffe; developed giraffe-specific GPS tags | https://giraffeconservation.org/programmes/twiga-tracker/ | Giraffe Conservation Foundation | data-/bio-logging geospatial GPS hardware local capacity building remote sensing terrestrial tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | Video and Image Analytics for Marine Environments (VIAME) | open-source, do-it-yourself AI toolkit which allows biologists to train their own computer vision models without ML expertise; has web & desktop version & online annotation archive; used for object counting & identification for marine animals/censusing | viametoolkit.org, viame.kitware.com | Kitware, Inc | USA | AI/ML consulting data analysis/viz images marine/aquatic open-source remote sensing software video |
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| Tool | Vigie-Chiro | citizen science acoustic monitoring program targeting bats, insects & other ultrasound-producing nocturnal taxa; working with a web portal & AI (Tadarida/TadariDeep toolbox) | https://croemer3.wixsite.com/teamchiro/vigie-chiro | Yves Bas, Christian Kerbiriou, Jean-Franois Julien | Paris | France | academic lab AI/ML bioacoustics citizen science data management education open-source R/Rstudio software terrestrial |
| Tool | Wallace | modular, R-based, open-source platform for reproducible modeling of species niches & distributions; user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI); have user support forum, webinars | https://wallaceecomod.github.io/ | Jamie Kass, Gonzalo Pinilla Buitrago, Andrea Paz, Bethany Johnson, Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Cory Merow, Robert Anderson, Bruno Vilela | academic lab climate data analysis/viz data management education events geospatial GPS open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | warbleR | facilitates analysis of animal acoustic signals in R; workflow that facilitates spectrographic visualization & measurement of acoustic parameters | https://marce10.github.io/warbleR/ | Marcelo Araya-Salas | bioacoustics data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software |
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| Tool | WaveGlider | ocean surface robot; autonomous, unmanned surface vehicle powered by wave & solar energy; operates individually or in fleets delivering real-time data for up to a year with no fuel; open & extensible platform; hosts trainings, mission planning sessions, has launch, piloting, recovery services, 24/7 support | https://www.liquid-robotics.com/wave-glider/overview/ | Liquid Robotics | climate data-/bio-logging drones/AUV's hardware marine/aquatic remote sensing |
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| Tool | Wildbook | WildMe's open-source individual animal identification platform to support mark-recapture, molecular ecology studies; API for cross-platform data inport/export; animal biometrics platform | https://github.com/WildMeOrg/Wildbook | Jason Holmberg, WildMe | Portland, Oregon | USA | AI/ML data analysis/viz images marine/aquatic open-source python software terrestrial |
| Tool | Wildbook Image Analysis (WBIA) | open-source machine learning platform for individual animal detection, classification & identification; backend service supporting machine learning for wildlife conservation on Wildbook | https://github.com/WildMeOrg/wildbook-ia | Wild Me | Portland, Oregon | USA | AI/ML citizen science data analysis/viz data management images open-source python software |
| Tool | WildID | camera trap image processing for Southern African species using machine learning-based software | https://www.wildid.app/ | Cape Town | South Africa | AI/ML camera trap data management images software terrestrial |
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| Tool | Wildlife Insights | global cloud-based camera trap data processing platform with built in detection ML models, near-real time info, storage/sharing tools | https://www.wildlifeinsights.org/home | Conservation International, NC Museum of Natureal Sciences, Smithsonian, Map of Life, WWF, WCS, Google, ZSL | AI/ML camera trap citizen science data analysis/viz images local capacity building open-source software |
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| Tool | Wildlife Sentinel app | anonymous illegal wildlife trade reporting app to help staff at airports, airlines & aviation companies report suspected wildlife trafficking & corruption; available on Apple & Google Play stores in English, Spanish & Portuguese | https://www.traffic.org/news/new-mobile-reporting-app-is-helping-combat-corruption-and-wildlife-trafficking-in-the-aviation-industry/ | Crime Stoppers International, USAID Routes Partnership | consulting images mobile app wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | wildlifeDI | facilitates the calculation of indices of dynamic interaction for wildlife telemetry data; also functions for more advanced contact analysis | https://github.com/jedalong/wildlifeDI | Jed Long, Trisalyn Nelson, Stephen Webb, Kenneth Gee | data-/bio-logging data analysis/viz open-source R/Rstudio software tracking/telemetry |
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| Tool | WildSpot AR | augmented reality game takes place on National Park lands; science fiction landscape, players encounter alien organisms & phenomena threatening to leak into our dimension; can join quests to explore real-world areas of scientific interest at the Parks & be invited to join citizen science projects available through SciStarter | https://www.wildspot.app/ | AAAS, Innovative Learning Institute, Springtail Media | USA | citizen science education mobile app software terrestrial |
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| Tool | Wisblock | modular system that makes it easy to implement LPWAN into IoT solutions; based off WisBlock Base board (provides power supply, battery/solar panel supplies, charging block, connectors for programming & debugging), platform carrier that plugs-in to WisBlock Core processing board & multiple WisBlock modules | https://store.rakwireless.com/pages/wisblock | Rak Wireless | hardware IoT |
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| Tool | wpsWatch | protected areas can use camera traps w/AI to detect threats & monitor wildlife in real time, & volunteers can sign up to help monitor & review camera trap images | https://wildlifeprotectionsolutions.org/wpswatch/ | Wildlife Protection Solutions | AI/ML camera trap citizen science data management wildlife crime prevention |
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| Tool | YOLO-fine | one-stage deep learning-based detection model designed to be capable of detecting small objects with high accuracy & high speed, allowing further real-time applications | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/15/2501 | IRISA, Institut Charles Delaunay | France | AI/ML data analysis/viz geospatial images remote sensing software |
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| Tool | Z-ray drone | autonomous underwater vehicle developed by US Navy, Scripps Institute; ocean glider that collects acoustic data via 27-element hydrophone awway installed in sonar housing | http://www.navaldrones.com/ZRay.html | Naval Drones | bioacoustics drones/AUV's marine/aquatic |
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| Tool | Zamba Cloud | app that automatically detects what species are present in camera trap videos, can upload directly to site; has 23 species classes (bird, human, primate, reptile, rodent, etc.) + no-animal class; 94% accuracy in blank vs non-blank, 79% top-3 accuracy (correct label in top 3) | https://www.zambacloud.com/#what-is-zamba-cloud | Driven Data | AI/ML camera trap data management images mobile app python software video |
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| Tool | Zendo | AI agent that can be taught to identify & locate objects in camera-trap images using as few as 10 images to start | https://deepai.org/zendo | DeepAI | San Francisco, California | United States | AI/ML camera traps data analysis/viz images software |
| Tool | ZoaTrack | platform to calculate movement metrics & space use for individually marked animals; focused on Australasian region; open-access projects available; hosts different home-range density estimator tools which can overlaid with environmental layers; results can be exported into Google Earth or Esri | https://zoatrack.org/ | University of Queensland, Atlas of Living Australia | data analysis/viz data management geospatial GPS open-source remote sensing software tracking/telemetry |