Thermal Imaging for Wildlife Applications

Kayleigh Fawcett Williams

Description

Thermal imaging is exciting technology that can act as a powerful tool in a growing number of wildlife research, ecology and management applications. It allows us to see things difficult or even impossible to detect using conventional methods, opening a window onto the worlds of cryptic, nocturnal, secretive and otherwise challenging species. This can offer a range of benefits such as increased accuracy, reduced costs, better efficiency and improvements to health and safety conditions. Yet the relevant information is often largely inaccessible to most wildlife professionals.

Thermal Imaging for Wildlife Applications brings together key findings from academic research and applied field protocols, along with the author’s wealth of practical experience, to inform and guide the reader in an approachable and understandable format. This comprehensive handbook includes chapters covering the fundamentals of the technology, methods, equipment and detailed discussion of application types, as well as specific sections that focus on terrestrial mammals, bats, marine mammals and birds.

The final chapter explores some of the many potential future uses of thermal imaging, before a thorough literature overview and a list of resources ensure that this will be the standard work on the subject for years to come.

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1 How it works

1.2 History of thermal imaging for wildlife applications

1.3 Advantages of using thermal imaging

1.4 Challenges and limitations of thermal imaging

2. Foundations

2.1 Setting the thermal scene

2.2 Detectability

3. Methods

3.1 Operations workflow

3.2 Levels of use

3.3 Deployment methods

3.4 Combining techniques

3.5 Expertise requirements

4. Equipment

4.1 Important specifications for device selection

4.2 Accessories

4.3 Calibration

5. Application Types

5.1 Detection, classification and counting

5.2 Human–wildlife interactions

5.3 Behavioural studies

5.4 Health and rehabilitation

5.5 Thermoregulation, thermal biology and thermal ecology

5.6 Communication, education and awareness

6. Wildlife Applications

6.1 Mammals

6.2 Birds

6.3 Bats

6.4 Marine mammals

7. Future Possibilities

7.1 Further development of thermal-imaging technologies

7.2 Automation

7.3 Data storage and handling

7.4 Sustainability

Appendix

Tables

Resources

Supplier Directory

References

Index

Sujets

• Loisirs
• Arts Numériques
• Imaging Systems
• Sciences et techniques
• Thermoregulation
• Wildlife
• Technology
• Engineering
• Wild Life
• Animals

Informations

• Publié par: Pelagic Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781784273880
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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