Measuring

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• Measuring
• Heartbeats of a nest

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Nestbox heartbeat Monitor
1 day
1 week
- Activity level periodic - Varies over time
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Biological Drivers Bird Behavior

• Finding factors that influence
• Decision to occupy one box versus another
• Success rates in terms of raising young
• Interaction with other species of bird
• Quantify
• When a bird starts nesting and for how long
• -Number of eggs laid, how many hatched, and how
  many of those fledged
• Low-power embedded Imagers (Cyclops)
• - Spatially diverse, local observations

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Nestbox States
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Ever Changing heartbeat
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Nesting States


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Nesting States




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Nesting States



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Deployments
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In Pursuit of a Scientific Instrument

• Offline processing of images
• - Develop embedded vision algorithms
• - Determine models for bird behavior
• Local quantification
• - Scalable (storage, bandwidth)
• - Feedback mechanism to allow for local
  adaptation