Mammal Species Inventory - Goegap Nature Reserve - Report 1: March 2019-May2019

SnapshotSafari is a transnational program aiming at providing a greater knowledge about mammal populations accross southern Africa. Thanks to standardized camera traps (CTs) grid, deployed in various locations reflecting a diversity of conservation states (from protected areas to highly transformed areas), SnapshotSafari aims at describing mammal population abundances, diversities and spatial occurrences. The data provided will benefit Research, in fields as broad as Genetics, Ecology or conservation Biology, as well by providing to conservation planning a comprehensive synthesis of which species can be found in their location, with which abundance...etc. The project is coordinated in South Africa by Nelson by Mandela University’s Wildlife Ecology Lab. The images collected by the CTs (as much as thousands per site) are sent to the United States (University of Minnesota) to be processed via a participative science plateform (Zooniverse) and machine learning (a popular IT field that allows automatized recognition of elements in an image, for instance antelopes in a landscape photo).快照漫游（SnapshotSafari）是一项跨国科研项目，旨在增进人们对南部非洲全境哺乳动物种群的认知。该项目依托标准化布设的相机陷阱（camera traps, CTs）网格，布点覆盖从保护地到高强度人为改造区域等多种保护状态各异的生境类型，旨在刻画哺乳动物种群的丰度、物种多样性与空间分布特征。本项目产生的数据将为遗传学、生态学、保护生物学等诸多领域的研究提供支撑，同时可为保护规划工作提供详尽的物种分布与种群丰度综合参考资料等。 本项目在南非由纳尔逊·曼德拉大学野生动物生态学实验室牵头协调。相机陷阱（CTs）采集的影像（单站点可达数千张）将被送往美国明尼苏达大学，通过公民科学平台Zooniverse（participative science platform）与机器学习（machine learning）技术开展处理工作——机器学习作为当前热门的信息技术领域，可实现图像内容的自动化识别，例如识别景观照片中的羚羊等动物。