58 CWMP 2013-2014 Winter Field Season Report
Remote Camera Data Sheet and Online Photo Submission
Photos should be processed following the guidelines in the Remote Camera
Photo and Data Management Guidelines (available online at
http://www.conservationnw.org/files/field-team-photo-managment-guidelines.pdf).
Below is a synopsis of this process. Refer to full document for details.
Process Remote Camera photos: Review and tag photos in Picasa
1. Download Photos to your computer.
2. Open Photo Folder in Picasa (Under the "File" menu select "Add Folder to
Picasa and navigate to the folder on your computer with remote camera
photos").
3. Determine if you have any series of photos taken by false triggers such as
light changes, temperature changes, waving branches, etc. Delete all false
triggers (carefully inspect images before deleting to ensure not missing
something subtle). Sometimes these can number in the hundreds or
thousands and we do not need to catalogue or store them. Note that you can
select multiple photos at once to delete when in the screen with rows of
thumbnails.
4. In Picasa using the "tags" feature (found in the lower right corner of the
screen) to tag all photos with species ID using the labeling conventions
guidelines listed at the bottom of this document. Note that you can tag
multiple photos at once by selecting as many as you want to tag at once in
the screen with rows of thumbnails than adding a tag. Follow guidelines for
tagging photos in the Remote Camera Photo and Data Management
Guidelines.
Upload photos to Google Drive
5. Navigate to the folder on Google Drive labeled with the team leader name
and camera location name, which should be set up for you already by
Conservation Northwest. If this folder has not been set up you can create it
and share it with wildlifemonitoringproject@gmail.com or you can send an
email to Alison Huyett (ahuyett@conservationnw.org) asking for help setting
up this shared folder. Once you have found this folder you can add it to "My
Drive" on Google Drive so it is easy to locate in the future.
6. Each time you upload new photos from a camera check you will need to
create a folder within the folder mentioned above for each camera you check
(most teams will have two camera sites) within the above folder. The folder
will need to be labeled as such:
Location_XXX (previous visit date)-XXX (current visit date)
Example: Mt. Rainier Camera #1_12AUG12-30AUG12
And for second site:
Mt. Rainier Camera #2_12AUG12-30AUG12
7. If applicable you can include a note in each camera folder (via word
document or google text document) for any instances of runaway photo taking
