DIOPSIS
An advanced, modern system for photographing, recognising and monitoring insects in a fully automated way.
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.
%
6 participating provinces in 2021
Cameras in 2021
Number of insect species in the Netherlands
1
Autonomous data collection
at all locations
2
Species, numbers and
biomass determination
3
Monitoring and trends
of populations
News
Webinar recording 'All insects count' 1 February 2022
Better methods of insect counting are badly needed in view of the recent observations that insect populations have declined tremendously over the past decades, with all the consequences that this has in ecosystems....
DIOPSIS camera in Klokhuis broadcast
"Things are not going well for insects. Just over the border in Germany, the number of flying insects has decreased by 75% in the last 30 years! How is it in the Netherlands? Researchers Robin and...
De Hoge Veluwe: News from forest ranger Henk Ruseler - October
29-SEP-2021 - Since 2020, a research project has started at Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe to permanently monitor the insect fauna with innovative monitoring. The DIOPSIS camera set-up is being...
Contact
Voor meer informatie over de camera en bestelmogelijkheden kunt u terecht op de website van Faunabit.
Voor algemene informatie over Diopsis of over het insecten monitoring project in zes provincies in Nederland kunt u contact opnemen met Chantal Huijbers: chantal.huijbers@naturalis.nl