Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

M Besson, J Alison, K Bjerge, TE Gorochowski… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of
global change and biodiversity declines. While real‐time and automated monitoring of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of deep learning techniques for detecting animals in aerial and satellite images

Z Xu, T Wang, AK Skidmore, R Lamprey - International Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep learning is an effective machine learning method that in recent years has been
successfully applied to detect and monitor species population in remotely sensed data. This …

[HTML][HTML] From crowd to herd counting: How to precisely detect and count African mammals using aerial imagery and deep learning?

A Delplanque, S Foucher, J Théau, E Bussière… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid growth of human populations in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a simultaneous
increase in the number of livestock, often leading to conflicts of use with wildlife in protected …

Elephants and algorithms: A review of the current and future role of AI in elephant monitoring

L Brickson, L Zhang, F Vollrath… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) present revolutionary opportunities to
enhance our understanding of animal behaviour and conservation strategies. Using …

Landscape connectivity for African elephants in the world's largest transfrontier conservation area: A collaborative, multi‐scalar assessment

R Naidoo, P Beytell, A Brennan, J Carter… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape connectivity operates at a variety of scales, depending on the geography of the
area in question and the focal species or ecological process under consideration. Most …

Wildlife detection, counting and survey using satellite imagery: are we there yet?

A Delplanque, J Théau, S Foucher… - GIScience & Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Wildlife surveys are key to assessing the health of global biodiversity. Traditional field and
aerial methods however have significant limitations, including high costs, substantial time …

WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification

S Kumar, B Zhang, C Gudavalli… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce WildlifeMapper (WM) a flexible model designed to detect locate and identify
multiple species in aerial imagery. It addresses the limitations of traditional labor-intensive …

Updated review of the conservation status of Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) in Kenya

AB Muneza, JS Kavutha, MW Muruana, T Ikime… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Giraffe (Giraffa spp.) numbers and their habitat have drastically declined throughout Africa
over the last century due to various threats linked to anthropogenic impacts including habitat …

Effectiveness of wildlife underpasses and culverts in connecting elephant habitats: a case study of new railway through Kenya's Tsavo National Parks

B Okita‐Ouma, M Koskei, L Tiller, F Lala… - African Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transportation networks can be a major impediment to wildlife movements. We assessed
the use of wildlife underpasses and culverts along a newly constructed railway in Kenya's …

[HTML][HTML] Will artificial intelligence revolutionize aerial surveys? A first large-scale semi-automated survey of African wildlife using oblique imagery and deep learning

A Delplanque, J Linchant, X Vincke, R Lamprey… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Large African mammal populations are traditionally estimated using the systematic
reconnaissance flights (SRF) with rear-seat observers (RSOs). The oblique-camera-count …