Can AI improve #cameratrap studies?

Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.

Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦡🦊🦌 We estimated density both on the field and in a simulation setting with two popular camera-trap models: Camera-Trap Distance Sampling (CT-DS) and Random Encounter Model (REM). Image classification was carried out both manually, and using two machine learning algorithms.