Motion-activated camera trap images from the ECN Cairngorm long-term monitoring site, 2010-2022

Motion activated camera traps were installed in pine woodland and regenerating heathland from 2010 as part of UK Environmental Change Network long-term monitoring in the Allt a'Mharcaidh catchment, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

The image catalogue contains 8050 wildlife images identified to species or group where possible. This forms part of the accompanying dataset which includes information on over 66,000 classified images, recording the presence of blank (empty) images, wildlife, people, dogs and mountain bikes. Furthermore it includes group identification where a series of images occur within five minutes of each other.

This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.

Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2023-03-20

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

Other citation details: Andrews, C., Dick, J. (2023). Motion-activated camera trap images from the ECN Cairngorm long-term monitoring site, 2010-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Chris Andrews

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Andrews, C.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dick, J.

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keywords

Cairngorms (ECN site) - United Kingdom
Biodiversity
Environmental change
Artificial intelligence
Object detection
Camera trap
Images
Wildlife
Motion activated
Allt a'Mharcaidh
Environmental Change Network
ECN

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Andrews, C., Dick, J. (2023). Motion-activated camera trap images from the ECN Cairngorm long-term monitoring site, 2010-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

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Distance: 10000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

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Biota

Begin date: 2010-01-01

End date: 2022-12-31

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data was collected and processed using a standardised methodology included as a supplementary file.

Images were collated directly from cameras into yearly named folders by year. Yearly collections were then processed through Microsoft’s object detection AI, MegaDetector (https://github.com/microsoft/CameraTraps/blob/main/megadetector.md), to streamline image content identification. Data extraction then took place using content filters within 'Timelapse: An Image Analyser for Camera Traps' software (https://saul.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/timelapse) with output data exported as a .csv file.

Any errors with time and date extracted from image EXIF, were corrected manually during the final processing step. The data was manually checked for errors but has not been through an exhaustive QC process which is recommended as good practice prior to use.

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Hierarchy level name: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-04-28T08:55:06

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK

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