Data collection for counting individuals and habitat characterization

Author

Dessart, Nathalie ; Hunel, Philipe ; Gros-Desormeaux, Jean-Raphael

Author_Institution

LAMIA Lab., Univ. des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique, France

fYear

2013

fDate

7-10 July 2013

Abstract

Decrease in the number of individuals of a species is an indicator of the state of biodiversity in a region. It is difficult to estimate this decline in the traditional way. We suggest to use ICT to measure this phenomenon. We propose using a distributed algorithm to count individuals in a population and to collect abiotic factors in order to characterize habitat. The first phase consists of detecting the presence of individuals from mapping ecotopes, the second allows counting the number of individuals and the last aggregates the numbers of individuals over several paths. We propose an approach that uses a wireless sensor network built on a linear architecture based on the concept of green tunnel. Here, each mote has a successor and a predecessor.

Keywords

biology computing; wireless sensor networks; zoology; ICT; abiotic factors; biodiversity; data collection; distributed algorithm; ecotopes mapping; green tunnel; habitat characterization; individual counting; individual presence detection; linear architecture; mote; wireless sensor network; Birds; Laboratories; Monitoring; Sociology; Statistics; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network; distributed decision; environment monitoring; mapping ecotopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2013 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Split

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2013.6754924

Filename

6754924