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Population dynamics

Working with Wageningen University & Research and the Belgian government, Twentynext developed a platform for ecosystem analysis. Using data science and AI it recognises mammal species and their movement patterns automatically, delivering insight into ecological processes for the conservation and management of ecosystems.

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Field research station overlooking a Dutch river landscape

Recognising species and movement patterns automatically

To know how an ecosystem is doing, you first need to know what lives there and where it moves. That counting work is labour-intensive, and exactly the part that can be automated.

What the platform does

  • Automatically recognise mammal species in observation data.
  • Count populations and distinguish individual animals within a population.
  • Track movement patterns and changes in habitat use over time.

What it is for

The counts and patterns are the evidence on which conservation managers base their choices: which species are declining, where protection is working and where it is not. The platform was developed with a Dutch life sciences university, as a research project: the interpretation stays with the ecologist.

Species recognition reaches an accuracy above 98 per cent. The work started in 2018 as the MIT Zuid feasibility project Intelligente Wildstand Monitor: EUR 62,400 in project costs, of which EUR 24,960 MIT funding. A reference is available on request.

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The people who build it also run it afterwards. Eindhoven, since 2014.

Martijn van Grieken

Martijn van Grieken

Director Data & AI

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