Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Hi michele.mks!

  • maricksu by maricksu moderator

    Great to hear that you have loved Snapshot Serengeti and have been classifying since it has started. Welcome to this season to help with this great project! 😃

    I assume, the next season will be again from cameras in Seronera long-term study area in Serengeti NP, with 3-frame shots motion effect.

    We have now started the Extended Survey season, a special edition of Snapshot Serengeti and thus very different and interesting in many ways. This season is connected to a different research. We have noticed that different type of cameras have been used and that images are 1-frame shots. These images are also from wide time-period, seem to be at least from 2012-2015.

    You find a lot more info about this season and the research-project from our Blog

    https://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/?_ga=1.13991607.1014146594.1449503413

    and about special images we see, also from this link

    https://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/?_ga=1.48764710.1014146594.1449503413#/boards/BSG0000006/discussions/DSG0001l9y

    This season images are from new locations and wider area in the Serengeti Ecosystem.
    While helping the researchers in their important and interesting research, we have now an unique chance during this season to see images from many different areas in Serengeti NP. We can see e.g. the more wooded and hilly areas in west and north, with some different kind animal concentrations, e.g. much more Topi. We see images also from farther south and east. We have already seen e.g. great shots of the migrating herds, which go through and use all these different areas during the year. We can also see some images outside the Park. Those areas are essential to Serengeti NP, which is a part of the huge Serengeti Ecosystem.

    Don’t worry too much about possibly missing some distant animals, when no motion effect to help. As always, make you best guess to all animals you see. Actually, in some images distant herds may be a bit easier to see, cause these cameras are placed at variable heights. When cameras are high you can see farther. Also while classifying more images, the backgrounds will become more familiar. We all do this together, helping each other in Talk and also this way learn more while enjoying this special season 😃

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  • tam10 by tam10 scientist in response to maricksu's comment.

    maricksu thanks for the great run down, and michele.mks thanks for your help classifying over the years. Yes, there are some important (and interesting) differences between the current Snapshot season and those from the past, mostly due to different research questions. We chose to collect only 1 photos per trigger rather than 3-photos mostly as a measure to save storage space on the camera. These cameras were set in fairly remote parts of the park (much more remote than the ongoing grid of cameras in Central Serengeti), so we could only get to them every 3-4 months. But, it's really good to hear feedback about how users classify images, and that a sequence of 3 is easier than only 1!

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