A small, low-cost, low-power wildlife tracking system. SnapperGPS is being developed at @UniOfOxford by @JonasBchrt, @AmandaMatthes and @alex_rogers_cs.
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I am excited to see this article, which I wrote with @AmandaMatthes & @GOSHCommunity member Pen-Yuan Hsing, published! We discuss the importance of open source hardware for ecology & conservation, including examples such as @SnapperGPS, @OpenFlexure, OpenCTD & more 🌿
New Research: Ecology and conservation researchers should adopt open source technologies frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #conservation
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Testing 2023 ocean tech @SnapperGPS alongside 1863 steam boat tech (HMS Warrior) here in Portsmouth at @arribada_i's office. That's 160 years later! @WILDLABSNET
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Wanna read more about @SnapperGPS? Check out our paper that the @journalopenhw published earlier this month 📜 openhardware.metajnl.com/art…
Joint work with @AmandaMatthes & @alex_rogers_cs ofc!
Kindly funded by @EPSRC and @aims_oxford.
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We are going to show @SnapperGPS at the Open Hardware Summit @ohsummit in NYC in April 👋
2023.oshwa.org/
Wanna know what to expect? We will likely bring...
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Check out this magical video of a turtle carrying a @SnapperGPS tag out on the reef. Looking forward to that data!
Thanks to Joana Hancock and her colleagues at @ORP_INDIANOCEAN for making this possible.
video by Denis Moser/Olive Ridley Project
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Testing @SnapperGPS with different low-cost GPS antennas - still, the results are looking 🔥🔥🔥
ALT Various low-cost GPS antennas.
ALT SnapperGPS boards with external antennas.
ALT SnapperGPS on a cycling helmet.
ALT Captured SnapperGPS track.
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.@SnapperGPS just got certified as
⚙️open source hardware⚙️
by the Open Source Hardware Association @oshwassociation
Check out why it takes more than uploading your schematics to GitHub to be considered open-source hardware on their website👉oshwa.org/sharing-best-pract…
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We accidentally made the @SnapperGPS PCB match the #GOSH2022 colour scheme.
#GOSH2022 @AmandaMatthes shows @SnapperGPS, an open-source location data logger for wildlife tracking! #OpenHardware #OpenScience
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Beautiful new @SnapperGPS turtle housing from @AmandaMatthes. This one will be used to trial inductive surfacing detection.
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SnapperGPS tags are lightweight, low-cost, and low-power, making them perfect for wildlife tracking. A single tag can log data for over 10,000 locations in one deployment and last for over a year on a small 40 mAh battery: bit.ly/3rjQye4
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Uploaded a preprint on our open-source wildlife tracking hardware @SnapperGPS to arXiv yesterday📜
We describe some design choices that aim at
🔋very low energy consumption,
⚖️low weight,
💲low costs, and
👱good usability.
Here's a summary thread🧵
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And that's a wrap for our @SnapperGPS deployments on incubating Manx Shearwaters. Here's a sneak-peek of the data. Now onto monitoring the chick-rearing period. Thanks to everyone in the Oxford Navigation Group who made this possible!
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The left picture that @alex_rogers_cs posted is actually a screenshot from our @SnapperGPS app. We draw a circle (radius = uncertainty) for each fix on a map powered by @LeafletJS, @openstreetmap, and @Mapbox.
Amazingly detailed @SnapperGPS track. This bird spent a few days catching fish off the Isle of Man before flying home. Really exciting to see data coming in from trial deployments. @AmandaMatthes @JonasBchrt
ALT Satellite view showing a SnapperGPS track from a bird that travelled to the Isle of Man to fish.
ALT Two SnapperGPS receivers ready to be deployed.
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Since our @SnapperGPS receivers and their companion app have been used for more wildlife tracking projects recently (@AmandaMatthes & @oxnav_group), I thought I talk a bit about design decisions for the app on this occasion. (1/12)
Code👉 github.com/SnapperGPS/snappe…
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Amazingly detailed @SnapperGPS track. This bird spent a few days catching fish off the Isle of Man before flying home. Really exciting to see data coming in from trial deployments. @AmandaMatthes @JonasBchrt
ALT Satellite view showing a SnapperGPS track from a bird that travelled to the Isle of Man to fish.
ALT Two SnapperGPS receivers ready to be deployed.
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@AmandaMatthes is travelling for our first @SnapperGPS deployment on the back of a bird. Waiting with @JonasBchrt to see the first data uploads.
ALT SnapperGPS fixes overlaid on a aerial photograph of an island.
ALT Comparison of two SnapperGPS boards.
ALT SnapperGPS board for bird deployment.
ALT SnapperGPS board for bird deployment.
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@AmandaMatthes took a walk around Skomer Island with a @SnapperGPS receiver.
ALT Aerial view of Skomer Island with pink position fix confidence circles showing the route of a walk.
ALT A circuit board with a GPS antenna and LiPo battery. This is a variant of our SnapperGPS board to be deployed on sea birds.
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More testing of @SnapperGPS boards. The final open-source reference design is complete and should be available in a few months (chip shortage allowing).
ALT A New Forest pony eating grass close to the SnapperGPS test site.
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Our sea turtle tracking project with @FMB_CaboVerde seems to be @UniofOxford's first research activity in Cape Verde research.ox.ac.uk/map Check out this map to see where else Oxford's researchers have been active 🌍
