Christopher and colleagues, Our project has been using a program called Camelot to process camera trap photos (https://gitlab.com/camelot-project/camelot; http://camelot-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/camelot-project). This java-based program runs in a web-browser and assists in organzing and tagging photos with species IDs. Multiple species and numbers of individuals can be tagged in each photo. It is built to export a variety of CSVs to programs like PRESENCE and the CamTrapR package in R. I have not yet started analysis, but we've tagged ~70,000 pics of our >80,000 for the year, and thus far it seems to be really useful in organizing and tagging pics. The support for the software is also excellent, with really fast fixes for bugs encountered. I also like that multiple users can tag photos at once. There are more functionalities that I haven't used yet and so won't describe here, but so far I'd recommend the software.
Cheers, Alex Alex Wolf Associate Research Specialist Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Box AB 2801 Sharon Turnpike Millbrook, NY 12545 845-677-7600 ext. 179 *Date:* Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:37:00 -0400*Reply-To:* Chris Lortie <[log in to unmask] <https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3Dind1709b%26L%3Decolog-l%26P%3D6169>>*Sender:* "Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news" <[log in to unmask] <https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3Dind1709b%26L%3Decolog-l%26P%3D6169>>*From:* Chris Lortie <[log in to unmask] <https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3Dind1709b%26L%3Decolog-l%26P%3D6169>>*Subject:* ten simple steps to process cam trap photos: advice on how to automate*Content-Type:* text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Dear Colleagues, Our research team is a fan of #rstats and automation; however, we have not fully moved all of our processes over to this philosophy and revised our workflows. We have a relatively high volume of cam trap photos to process, and in the past, we did manually using this workflow: http://www.ecoblender.org/cam-trapping-ten-simple-steps-to-process-all-those-amazing-photos/ We would really appreciate any advice, input, or experiences with your successes in automating the process of translating the photos into dataframes. The R-package 'camtrapR' looks promising, and we will will explore it now. However, we would like to know if there are any other ideas/tools/general workflows we should consider examining. We also approached Zooniverse to engage the public in our photos as well, but we certainly would like a better process for our team. Thank you in advance. cheers, christopher lortie
