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Introduction to WildObs 

Webinar / Q&A Session

In this online webinar, the WildObs team will provide an introduction to the project, which aims to address the challenge of standardising and coordinating camera trap data nation-wide to provide actionable insights.

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Lights, Camera … Conservation Action!

Camera traps are widely used across Australia to study wildlife, and initiatives like WildObs are helping transform large image collections into usable, shareable data for research and conservation.

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From snapshot to supercharged science data

WildObs works across many research projects to curate verified camera trap datasets, and we’ve collaborated with them to mobilise data using CamtrapDP. This then allows the ALA to provide the infrastructure behind the WildObs Tagged Image Repository and makes the camera trap data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

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New WildObs paper highlights challenges and opportunities in camera trap research

A decade-long review of Australian camera trap data in Biological Reviews highlights WildObs' potential to enhance wildlife research, improving efficiency, quality, and scale while reinforcing Australia’s leadership in wildlife monitoring.

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QCIF to build cutting-edge data processing infrastructure for wildlife research

QCIF is partnering with Planet RDC to scale up WildObs, a collaborative initiative involving scientists, government agencies, and environmental groups focused on using machine-based observations to monitor wildlife.

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Unleashing Camera Trap Data to Monitor Australia’s Wildlife with the Planet Research Data Commons

The ARDC Planet Research Data Commons is partnering with QCIF to scale-up the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs), a collaborative initiative involving scientists, government agencies, and environmental groups focused on using machine-based observations to monitor wildlife. 

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Turn camera trap images into scalable insight 

Keep up to date with platform updates, new features, and developments across Australia’s wildlife camera data infrastructure.

Working together at national scale

WildObs partners with leading Australian research and conservation organisations to support large-scale monitoring, data sharing, and ecological research across Australia.

WildObs is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the Planet Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/bvg2-b035). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

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