Camera-based automated monitoring of flying insects (Camfi). I. Field and computational methods.

ABSTRACT: The ability to measure flying insect activity and abundance is important for ecologists, conservationists and agronomists alike. However, existing methods are laborious and produce data with low temporal resolution (e.g. trapping and direct observation), or are expensive, technically complex, and require vehicle access to field sites (e.g. radar and lidar entomology). We propose a method called "Camfi" for long-term non-invasive population monitoring and high-throughput behavioural observation of low-flying insects using images and videos obtained from wildlife cameras, which are inexpensive and simple to operate. To facilitate very large monitoring programs, we have developed and implemented a tool for automatic detection and annotation of flying insect targets in still images or video cl

SUBMITTER: Wallace JRA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10926415 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature