Project Settings

General

  • Name: name of your project. We recommend something that covers your project’s research questions in a few words.

  • Location: set a location for your project. This can be anywhere so doesn’t have to match your actual study area. This location is used to plot your project on a public map, if your project is set to public.

  • Default UTC offset: this sets a timezone for your project. Set it to prevent having to enter this for each deployment manually. If your location observes daylight saving time you can adjust the timezone to match. For example: if you run your cameras in Western European summertime, you can set the offset to +2. The description for each timezone are indicative only, and not exhaustive.

  • Description: write a few lines about your project. We recommend to include: the aim of the study, the sampling strategy and the location. For example: ‘We study the community composition of predators in Bardiya National Park, Nepal. A permanent grid of 50 cameras, spaced 1 km apart, was installed. Each camera was checked monthly.’ This text is shown on the public pages, if your project is set to public.

  • Image: here, you can upload an image that is shown on the project’s tile. This image is shown on the public pages, if your project is set to public.

  • Restricted images: this setting controls whether your project’s assets can be accessed publicly by using their URLs. When checked, image URLs in data exports/published data will not be accessible to external users and require authentication by an user that have access to the project. Sequences that contain one or more framed with humans always require authentication.

  • Restricted project: this setting controls whether your project’ s name, description and location can be shown publicly. When checked, your project will be hidden from the public homepage and portals on agouti.eu.

  • Restricted locations: This controls the visibility of locations by users in our project. When unchecked, deployment locations can be seen by all project members. When checked, photo processors and volunteers will only see the locations for their own deployments.

  • Deployments are assigned: by default, all users (except view-only) can annotate all deployments. If you like to have control over who annotates what deployment, enable this setting. Principal investigators and project coordinators can then assign deployments to users. Volunteers, photo processors can only annotate those deployments and the ones they uploaded themselves. Principal investigators and project coordinators can see what deployments are assigned to them, but can still annotate all deployments at all times.

  • Owner: set this to the person that is responsible for the project.

  • PI: set this to the person that is coordinating the project. Often the same as the owner.

  • Organization: set this to the organization running the project. Contact agouti@wur.nl if your organization is not listed.

Sampling design

  • Baits: here, you can select none, one or more baits used in your project. The options are a controlled list defined as part of the Camtrap DP standard. *Quiet period: if you set your camera to be inactive for some time after each trigger, you can add that setting here.

  • Sampling design: here, you can select the sampling design used in your project. The options are a controlled list defined as part of the Camtrap DP standard.

Annotation

  • Sequence cut-off: this setting controls the division of images into sequences. The time difference between subsequent images is used. IF the time difference is equal to or smaller than this cut-off, the images are put in the same sequence. If the time difference is greater than this setting, a new sequence is started. The default setting of 120 seconds work well for most projects. Should you wish to change it, please contact agouti@wur.nl. Changing this setting does not affect existing data and is only applied to uploads made after the change.

  • Automatic annotation: here, you can select an AI model to automatically process your deployments. After selecting a model, a button ‘Annotate by AI’ will show up for each deployment listed on the Annotate page. For more details, please see the dedicated Reference automatic annotation page.

Species

The main taxonomic list we used is the Catalogue of Life. You can add class, order, family, genus, species and subspecies from this main list to your project, making them available for selection during annotation. Including higher taxonomic levels is helpful for hard to distinguish groups of species, such as rodents, or allows you to quickly process species groups that are not of interest to your project. Bu editing a species you can add common names in all supported languages. These are used in the project when users have selected common names in their personal settings. If you find a species is missing form the main list, please contact agouti@wur.nl and mention the link to CoL page.

Behaviour

Here, you can define behaviours for your project. Each behaviour has a name and description. These behaviours are available during annotation. You can select none, one or multiple behaviours for each observations.

Individuals

To keep track of individual animals, add them here. An individual always has a name, species and description.