In recent decades the biodiversity crisis has been characterised by a decline and extinction of many animal species worldwide. To aid in understanding the threats and causes of this demise, conservation scientists rely on remote assessments. Innovation in technology in the form of microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) has brought about great leaps forward in understanding of animal life. The MEMs are now readily available to ecologists for remotely monitoring the activities of wild animals. Since the advent of electronic tags, methods such as biologging are being increasingly applied to the study of animal ecology, providing information unattainable through other techniques. In this paper, we discuss a few relevant instances of biologging studies. We present an overview on biologging research area, describing the evolution of acquisition of behavioural information and the improvement provided by tags. In second part we will review some common data analysis techniques used to identify daily activity of animals.

Wild animals' biologging through machine learning models

Pucci, Rita
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Micheli, Alessio;Chessa, Stefano
2018-01-01

Abstract

In recent decades the biodiversity crisis has been characterised by a decline and extinction of many animal species worldwide. To aid in understanding the threats and causes of this demise, conservation scientists rely on remote assessments. Innovation in technology in the form of microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) has brought about great leaps forward in understanding of animal life. The MEMs are now readily available to ecologists for remotely monitoring the activities of wild animals. Since the advent of electronic tags, methods such as biologging are being increasingly applied to the study of animal ecology, providing information unattainable through other techniques. In this paper, we discuss a few relevant instances of biologging studies. We present an overview on biologging research area, describing the evolution of acquisition of behavioural information and the improvement provided by tags. In second part we will review some common data analysis techniques used to identify daily activity of animals.
2018
Pucci, Rita; Micheli, Alessio; Chessa, Stefano
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