David D. Hofmann

Camera trap studies usually deal with thousands of camera trap images that have to be organized and sorted. In this blog-post, I’m going to illustrate how you can use Microsoft’s MegaDetector to automatically detect animals in camera trap images. This can be very useful to automate the identification and removal of images that do not contain any animals.

Elevation data is a crucial element of many ecological studies. Unfortunately, collecting, cleaning, and stitching tiles from a digital elevation model is often tedious. Thus, I’ll show you how you can access elevation data straight from within R. In addition, you’ll learn how to derive terrain features and how to use the rayshader package, a package for beautiful 3d plots.