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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
9. Download Photos to your computer.
10. 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").
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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 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.
14. 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
