DIOPSIS
An advanced, modern system for fully automated insect photography, identification and monitoring.
Photography and identification
Hi-tech monitoring of biodiversity
Autonomous and intelligent system
Day and night, 7 days a week, in the Netherlands
The system consists of an intelligent camera (with screen) placed outside in the field. Photos are transferred to a central server via a data connection. There the photos are analysed.
Works everywhere, including the rest of the world
So far, the camera has been used for detecting flying insects, but it can also be used for crawling insects and other invertebrates.
Trends of insect species & populations
The ultimate goal is to monitor the numbers and biomass of different types of insects in order to identify and understand the trends in insect decline.
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Autonomous data collection
on-site
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Determine species, numbers and biomass
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Monitoring and trends
of populations
News
Insect monitoring in ARTIS, a test with DIOPSIS
Naturalis is collaborating with three other organizations (University of Amsterdam, University of Twente and Westerdijk Institute) on ARISE, a national research infrastructure for identifying...
Tropical test for the DIOPSIS camera
Not only in the Netherlands do we want to know better how insect stocks are doing, there is also a lot of international attention on the development of cameras to monitor insects. DIOPSIS is...
DIOPSIS in the spotlight on the cover of Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Technological advances open new possibilities for monitoring biodiversity. In a new article in the scientific journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution,...
Contact
For more information about the DIOPSIS insect camera and ordering options, please visit the website of Faunabit.
For general information about the DIOPSIS project and image recognition, please contact Chantal Huijbers (project leader) or Tamara de Reus (project assistant) at Naturalis Biodiversity Center: diopsis@naturalis.nl.