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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"wildlife monitoring"”.
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Landscape-scale conservation planning and wildlife monitoring In Southeast Asia
… expanded the potential for landscape scale monitoring of biodiversity and the use of resulting insights for conservation planning. This collection of papers explores the use of modeling, monitoring, and conservation planning techniques to better facilitate landscape scale conservation in …
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Neural Region-of-Interest-Aware Video Compression for Wildlife Monitoring Under Edge Computing Constraints
Wildlife camera traps can produce far more video than is practical to store locally or transmit from remote sites. In many clips, the animal occupies only a small part of the frame, while most of the image is background. Standard whole-frame compression does not account for this imbalance and may …
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A Comparison of Wildlife Monitoring Techniques in Riparian Ecosystems of the Western United States
… the western United States have not implemented monitoring plans. This lack of wildlife monitoring has resulted in a loss riparian ecosystem services and missed opportunities to conserve them. Data collected from wildlife monitoring assists researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders in …
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Energy-efficient detection system in time-varying signal and noise power
… to greatly reduce the energy consumption for a wildlife monitoring application. Hardware implementation also consolidates the empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Mechanisms facilitating coexistence between leopards (Panthera pardus) and their competitors in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
… of original research on leopard ecology and monitoring, primarily within the framework of carnivore interactions. To this end, I focus on sympatric populations of wild, but habituated, lions (Panthera leo), leopards, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in …
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C@t : a language for programming massively distributed embedded systems
… MDES: responsive environments, smart buildings, wildlife monitoring, precision agriculture, inventory tracking, etc. These examples are compelling, however, developing applications for MDES remains complex due to the following issues: MDES consist of large number of resource constrained devices …
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Learning sparse features and metric in signal and image processing
… representation on a camera trap dataset for wildlife monitoring and demonstrate good performance of sparse features in a challenging real world scenario. Second, from a theoretical perspective, we show that the popular ℓ1-norm based methods break down in the presence of high coherence and …
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Negotiating the Panoptic Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve
… and thermal imagery for activities such as wildlife monitoring, anti-poaching, and law enforcement. In many respects surveillance is constitutive of modern society, especially in urban spaces (Lyon 1995) where its use has been widely discussed. In the conservation context, surveillance …
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A Comparison of Current Anuran Monitoring Methods with Emphasis on the Accuracy of Automatic Vocalization Detection Software
… exists that uses the described tools for wildlife monitoring, especially for anuran monitoring.</p> <p>In the study, there were two problems addressed relating to AVRS. The first was the poorly understood relationship between auditory survey methods and physical survey methods. I tested …
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Computational intelligence methods in wireless sensor networks
… dynamic sleep scheduling of WSN nodes for wildlife monitoring. Compact generalized neuron (GN) is investigated as a resource-efficient alternative to MLPs for classification, nonlinear function approximation and time series prediction. A recurrent GN (RGN) structure is introduced. The …
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Hierarchical Clustering Techniques for Energy-efficient Algorithms in WSNs
… RFID type mobile nodes are used. For example wildlife monitoring, condition monitoring, industrial applications and IoT. Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, Routing Protocols, Network Lifetime, Energy Consumption, Cluster-Head, Radio-frequency identification (RFID).
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Mitigating interference coexistence issues in wireless sensor networks
… of interest; example applications include wildlife monitoring and home automation systems. In order to cater for long network lifetimes without the need for regular maintenance, energy efficiency is paramount, alongside link reliability. To minimise energy consumption, WSN MAC protocols …
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Managing heterogeneous resources for dynamic energy-efficient sensing
… our approach to system design, using an acoustic wildlife monitoring task as the application driver. A hidden Markov model (HMM) approach to pattern recognition is adopted, where event arrivals and bird songs are modeled using a 30-state Markov chain, with transition parameters learned from data. …
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Detection, Occupancy, Abundance, and Mercury Accumulation of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) in Texas
<p>Land use practices and physical alterations of ecosystems result in habitat loss and fragmentation, while chemical alterations, such as pollutant input, reduce habitat quality and health of exposed organisms. Here, I investigated the effects of watershed- and local-scale environmental variables …