02154nas a2200253   4500008004100000245007000041210006900111300001200180490000700192520133300199653002601532653001201558653002301570653002901593653001201622100001701634700002001651700001901671700001601690700001801706700001701724700001401741856014501755       2009                        eng d00aCamera Traps as Sensor Networks for Monitoring Animal Communities0 aCamera Traps as Sensor Networks for Monitoring Animal Communitie  a811-8180 v343 a<div class="article">
<p>Studying animal movement and distribution is of critical importance to addressing environmental challenges including invasive species, infectious diseases, climate and land-use change. Motion sensitive camera traps offer a visual sensor to record the presence of a species at a location, recording their movement in the Eulerian sense. Modern digital camera traps that record video present new analytical opportunities, but also new data management challenges. This paper describes our experience with a year-long terrestrial animal monitoring system at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. The data gathered from our camera network shows the spatio-temporal dynamics of terrestrial bird and mammal activity at the site-data relevant to immediate science questions, and long-term conservation issues. We believe that the experience gained and lessons learned during our year long deployment and testing of the camera traps are applicable to broader sensor network applications and are valuable for the advancement of the sensor network research. We suggest that the continued development of these hardware, software, and analytical tools, in concert, offer an exciting sensor-network solution to monitoring of animal populations which could realistically scale over larger areas and time spans.</p>
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10abiological techniques10acameras10avideo surveillance10awireless sensor networks10azoology1 aKays, R., W.1 aKranstauber, B.1 aJansen, P., A.1 aCarbone, C.1 aRowcliffe, M.1 aFountain, T.1 aTilak, S.  uhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5355046&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5355046