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  • Gardeners of the Galapagos
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    • Proper installation of environmental sensors in the field.
    • Finding qualified personnel to monitor and read data from installed environmental sensors.
    • Managing malfunctions in environmental sensors installed in the field.
    • Cost of obtaining environmental sensors.
    • Costs associated with installing environmental sensors (travel, lodging, etc.)
    • Costs associated with long-term monitoring of environmental sensors (be that staffing, travel, or technology costs).
    • Volume of data collected.
    • The length of time needed to label data.
    • Lack of qualified personnel (taxonomists) needed to label data.
    • Quality of data collected.
    • Existence of unexplained anomalies.
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  • Open data is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
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  • Bycatch data are data collected from a study that are not the primary focus of the study. These data may have no value to the researchers who collected them, but may be useful to other people, for different reasons.
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  • If you represent an organization as a administrator/advisor, etc., please answer this question from the point of view of your organization.
  • This survey is designed to study the feasibility of installing and maintaining a comprehensive array of connected environmental sensors on the Galápagos Islands to serve as a data-collecting infrastructure for comprehensive environmental monitoring.

    The infrastructure would include:

    • Fully automated, telemetered image, video, sound, soil, air, and water sensors continuously streaming research-grade data;
    • a robust, open data platform managed by data scientists available to partner with field researchers; and
    • software and apps for remote monitoring.

    While focused on the Galápagos, results from the research may be considered a model for other ecosystems around the world. As such, the following questions are applicable regardless of the geographic location of your field research.

    For the purposes of this survey, assume the sensors and data would be deployed, monitored, and maintained in such a way to meet/exceed rigorous scientific standards.

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  • For the purposes of this survey, AI technologies includes anything from smart devices able to learn over time to complex convolutional neural networks.

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  • Your email address will not be shared with anyone, nor will it be used for any reason other than infrequent communication regarding this research project.

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