Glossary

One of the goals of Wildlife Insights is to bring data collected by people all over the world together into one central, standardized database. Although terminology may differ between organizations, Wildlife Insights defines terms as described here:

Burst: A group of images taken within a short user-defined time interval (0-600 seconds) from one another. Bursts allow users to efficiently assign the same identification to multiple images that contain the same animals or objects.

Cameras: An autonomous camera trap device that is triggered by changes in motion and/or heat. The same camera may be used to sample different locations at different times.

Camera Deployment: A unique spatial and temporal placement of a camera trap device to sample wildlife. For example, a camera trap placed at location x,y between January 1-15, 2019, is a different camera deployment than the same (or different) camera device placed at the same location but between January 1-15, 2018.

Identified objects: An identified object is any item that can be identified in an image, which can include animal species and non-animal objects such as automobiles, bicycles, etc.

Images and Image Projects: Images are individual photographs that each are given their own separate identification based on what appears in that specific image. Image projects are projects that record data for each individual image separately, meaning each photo is assigned its own identification.

Initiatives: An initiative is a group of projects that share similar objectives, data and analytics. Initiatives can include projects from one or more organizations.

Locations: A camera location is the physical position in space (latitude and longitude) of a camera trap device.

Organizations: Entities comprising one or more people that share a particular purpose and objectives.

Projects: A project is a set of camera deployments within a limited spatial and temporal boundary. Each project has defined objectives and methods.

Sampling days: The number of days a camera trap is set out to sample wildlife.

Sequences and Sequence Projects: Sequences are groups of contiguous images taken within 60 seconds of each other that are given a single identification assignment, which may include multiple species. If there are two or more species in a sequence, each can be recorded separately within the same sequence along with its corresponding group size (i.e., how many animals are captured within the sequence). Sequence projects are projects that record data using sequences rather than individual images, where the AI model returns the most common identification result for each 60-second image sequence.

Species: The number of unique wild and domesticated species in a set (humans not included).