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to be labeled as such in all the data sheets and photo folders submitted. See above for guidelines for
labeling discreet installations. If you are using the Coordinate recording feature in a remote camera be
sure to reset the coordinates to your new location when putting in a new installation.
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 Aleah Jaeger (aleah@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: Rainier 1_12AUG12-30AUG12
And for second site:
Rainier 2_12AUG12-30AUG12
7. For wolverine run pole camera sets where two cameras are set for the same installation, within the
folder you create for each site visit, place the photos from each camera into a separate folder
labeled: "polecam" and "vicinity".
