D B Roy, J Alison, T A August, M Bélisle, K Bjerge, J J Bowden, M J Bunsen, F Cunha, Q Geissmann, K Goldmann, A Gomez-Segura, A Jain, C Huijbers, M Larrivée, J L Lawson, H M Mann, M J Mazerolle, K P McFarland, L Pasi, S Peters, N Pinoy, D Rolnick, G L Skinner, O T Strickson, A Svenning, S Teagle, T T Høye
Automated sensors have potential to standardize and expand the monitoring of insects across the globe. As one of the most scalable and fastest developing sensor technologies, we describe a framework for automated, image-based monitoring of nocturnal insects-from sensor development and field deployment to workflows for data processing and publishing. Sensors comprise a light to attract insects, a camera for collecting images and a computer for scheduling, data storage and processing. Metadata is important to describe sampling schedules that balance the capture of relevant ecological information against power and data storage limitations...
June 24, 2024: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences