Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2363
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Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; object detection; conservation; e-health
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Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; computer vision; technology in conservation and e-health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue on the use of Sensors and Artificial Intelligence in Wildlife Conservation. We are soliciting submissions for both review and original research articles related to the novel use of data obtained from sensors (camera traps, cameras, microphones, unoccupied vehicles (aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic)) and any other sensor platforms you think would support wildlife conservation) combined with AI, to manage and protect wildlife globally. The Special Issue is open to contributions ranging from systems that combat poaching and protect wildlife, support wildlife management and conservation, enable animal counting and tracking, monitor and protect the environment, support biodiversity assessments, monitor forest health and quality, as well as novel approaches to sensor fusion for remote sensing. Original contributions that look at integrated sensor-based technologies and wide-area communications across remote sensing platforms (land, sea, airborne and spaceborne) are also encouraged.
For your reference, you may refer to publications in Volume I of this Special Issue series.
Prof. Dr. Paul Fergus
Dr. Carl Chalmers
Prof. Dr. Serge Wich
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multispectral remote sensing
- hyperspectral remote sensing
- LiDAR
- sensor fusion
- land-, sea-, air-, and space-based monitoring
- machine learning
- convolutional neural networks (1D, 2D, 3D, etc.)
- high-performance inference
- time-series analysis
- poaching
- wildlife conservation
- animal counting
- forest monitoring
- land-use/cover change
- environment monitoring
- robotics
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