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Tools and resources

Tools, standards, datasets, models, communities and commercial products that projects here have used. Each one links to the projects that used it.

NameKindUsed by
Arbimon
Rainforest Connection's platform for storing and analyzing sound recordings from nature to monitor biodiversity.
tool1 project
Copernicus Sentinel-1
European radar satellites whose images, free to use, can show ships and structures at sea through cloud and darkness.
dataset1 project
MegaDetector
A free, open-source model that finds animals, people and vehicles in camera-trap photos, so teams can throw away the empty frames.
model1 project
NatureLM-audio
Earth Species Project's open model for analyzing animal sounds, described by its makers as the first large audio-language model built...
model1 project
SCI for AI (Green Software Foundation)
A specification for measuring the carbon emissions of an AI system across its life, from preparing data and training to answering...
standard0 projects
SpeciesNet
An open-source model from Google that suggests which species appears in a camera-trap photo. It builds on MegaDetector's output.
model1 project
WAVR Technologies
A Las Vegas company, spun out of UNLV, that pulls drinking water out of very dry air. It says its systems work better paired with places...
commercial product0 projects
WILDLABS
An online community where conservation technologists share questions, tools and lessons.
community0 projects
Wildlife Insights
An online platform where conservation teams upload, store and classify camera-trap photos with AI help.
tool0 projects