Monitoring small and elusive animals is a complex challenge. Video recordings and camera trapping techniques are widely used in wildlife monitoring but are often considered unreliable for small mammals such as bats. We are developing and testing a camera trapping technique that should allow to efficiently monitor activity around bat roosts.
In this project, you will acquire data both with continuous video surveillance and camera traps and compare the efficiency and accuracy of these methods.
Tasks
- Acquire simultaneous video recordings of bat roosts with continuous surveillance and PIR-sensor camera traps
- Calibrate and validate the accuracy of camera traps for bat emergence
- Explore automatic video processing techniques to enhance the efficiency of processing large datasets from continuous recording
Who can apply?The project is open to BSc students
Who should I contact?Andrea Fogato and Dina Dechmann, Ephemeral Resource Adaptations Group
