Early birds: "In the Netherlands, a major study into the decline of insects was started this week. It is a world first. Hundreds of specially designed camera traps will measure which insects pass by at different places in town, nature and countryside. The special thing about these cameras is that they work with image recognition. The technique behind the automatic cameras has been trained with thousands of photos of insects from amateurs and professionals who made the images available on waarneming.nl. At the same time the weight (biomass) of the insects is measured".
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...
