Caring for Camera Trap Data Additional Details

Caring for Camera Trap Data

Issued by Charles Darwin University

Indigenous rangers will learn to care for camera trap data, including storing, processing, bilingually tagging, exporting, and translating data, and compiling a report from monitoring of significant species on country. Training will be delivered on the job through collaborative research projects or monitoring programs under Elder authorisation. This badge links to the Site Survey Using Camera Traps badge, where rangers gain skills in setting up camera traps to collect data.

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Understand cultural protocols for caring for camera trap data. Collaborate with Traditional Owners to: ensure the right people are present and have provided authorisation for digital technology and AI to be used on camera data collected on their country; and to discuss and agree on locally specific rules for processing and using camera data.
  • Learn how to store camera trap data on the computer. Set up files on the computer in the right format for storing and processing camera trap data and upload the data to the correct folders.
  • Process camera trap data with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Set up free-to-access AI technology to process camera images, to reduce the manual workload of identifying each image, as guided by local data protocol discussions during Activity 1.
  • Set up a database for the camera images in free-to-access software (e.g. CPW Warehouse or Timelapse), import the data files and templates, and add bilingual animal names to the software system ready for tagging.
  • Bilingually tag species of local importance. Verify (and add or edit) the AI generated species tags for locally identified species of importance and undertake additional checks for data accuracy.