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Scripts and issues to manage the SnapshotSerengeti images and metadata.
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Get site metadata for all camera locations #2

Open mkosmala opened 9 years ago

mkosmala commented 9 years ago

A number of sites are missing Trail/Shade/Trees/Grass/Poles and direction facing, perhaps others. It would be good to collect this metadata if it's unknown and to put it into the database.

mkosmala commented 9 years ago

@aliburchard Do you know what the status of this is?

aliburchard commented 9 years ago

Most of the sites should have these metadata (except direction facing, which I gave up on pretty quickly because it seemed silly at the time and I had decided to limit to the 4 cardinal directions which didn't begin to capture accurately where the camera was facing).

Trail I really only paid attention to in the first season because I had learned from folks who camera trapped in the woods. But game trails in Serengeti are primarily made by wildes running single file in the wet season, and then not really used by anything thereafter.

But any site that actually had cameras up should have shade/grass/trees/poles values. I'll look into this at some point and see why they're missing/what they should be. If those data are really missing, we should definitely have it collected in the field...

mkosmala commented 9 years ago

Direction facing would be useful for automatic image processing. If we want to do something like extract vegetation metrics from photos it will be useful to know the direction facing so we know if we're looking into the sun or not in a given photo.