Monitoring with Cameras

We’re collaborating with the University of Montana and University of Idaho in the continued development of remote camera-based methods for monitoring wildlife populations.

When it is unfeasible or impossible to physically count individual animals in an area of interest, we need reliable methods to estimate the number of animals that we can’t physically count.  

More traditional methods required a large number of individual animals to be captured and marked.  

The new, camera-based methods we are working on are some of the first that do not require a large sample of marked animals to estimate numbers.  

We’re designing camera arrays that will be able to simultaneously get estimates for all big game in an area.