Part of UKCEH UKCEH logo
UKCEH website
Andrews, C.; Dick, J.

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

Download/Access
PLEASE NOTE: By accessing or using this dataset, you agree to the terms of the relevant licence agreement(s). You will ensure that this dataset is cited in any publication that describes research in which the data have been used.

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Download the data

Bulk download options

You can use WGET to download data. For example
wget --user=YOUR_USERNAME --password=YOUR_PASSWORD --auth-no-challenge https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

Further information and help »

https://doi.org/10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93
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.
Publication date: 2023-03-20
61 downloads *
967 views *

More information

View numbers valid from 01 June 2023 Download numbers valid from 20 June 2024 (information prior to this was not collected)

Formats

Comma-separated values (CSV), jpeg

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2010-01-01    to    2022-12-31

Provenance & quality

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.

Licensing and constraints

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Andrews, C.; Dick, J. (2023). Motion-activated camera trap images from the ECN Cairngorm long-term monitoring site, 2010-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b0c13df5-f606-4bf2-9397-a9c51a7e8d93

Related

This dataset is included in the following collections

Environmental Change Network (ECN) data holdings

Supplemental information

'Timelapse: An Image Analyser for Camera Traps' software

Correspondence/contact details

Chris Andrews
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Bush Estate
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0QB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Andrews, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Dick, J.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other contacts

Rights holder
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
Allt a'Mharcaidh , Artificial intelligence , Biodiversity , Cairngorms (ECN site) - United Kingdom , Camera trap , ECN , environmental change , Environmental Change Network , image classification , Images , Motion activated , Object detection , wildlife
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
NatureScot
Last updated
27 February 2024 16:22