Identification

Title

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

Abstract

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

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

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

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental change

Artificial intelligence

Object detection

Camera trap

Images

Wildlife

Motion activated

Allt a'Mharcaidh

Environmental Change Network

ECN

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.86

East bounding longitude

-3.8

North bounding latitude

57.118

South bounding latitude

57.076

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2010-01-01

End position

2022-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2023-03-20

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-04-28T08:55:06

Metadata language

eng