Wildlabs: Quick introduction to Firetail 9
Our contribution to the Wildlabs Variety hour is now available. The full event can be found here:
Entries by Tobias Petri
Firetail at the Wildlabs Variety Hour
We’re glad to join the Wildlabs Variety Hour: Firetail developer Tobias Petri will outline key features of Firetail and FireSOM and of course we’ll have the possibility to address requirements and questions. Register for free: https://www.wildlabs.net/event/wildlabs-variety-hour-august
Firetail 9 – now available
We are proud to present Firetail 9! For incredibly fast visualization and annotation of Movebank data, GPS tracks, acceleration sensors, IMU orientation data and much more. Perfect for movement ecology, biologging and conservation projects. Download from https://www.firetail.de What’s new? – selected features 1. Version 9 features many performance and stability improvements boosting your daily […]
New Tutorial: Advanced Annotation Procedures
We are happy to present a new part of our tutorial series on Firetail techniques! In this part you will learn how to segement acceleration data subdivide and refine predicted categories save your models and apply them to other individuals, tags or deployments The tutorial has two parts. Firstly, a short lecture to introduce the […]
Firetail 8 released
We proudly present Firetail 8! Firetail features state-of-the art visualization of GPS records, acceleration data, inert magnetic unit (IMU) data and sensor data for wild animal tracking. Firetail 8 ships with an improved version of FireSOM for machine-learning assisted annotation, featuring new powerful workflows for behavioral prediction and prediction refinement. Firetail 8 can work with […]
Modern animal tracking: the Movebank newsletter
The latest Movebank newsletter is out. A perfect overview for all that would like to get an insight into the current study landscape regarding animal observation, behavioral analysis and conservation. ICARUS and Firetail news are included, as well as recent collaborations, high-ranking publications and analyses. Enjoy reading! Newsletter, Feb 2022
FireSOM: AI assisted annotation of acceleration data in Firetail
We are glad to present a new part of our tutorial series on Firetail. This time we talk about “FireSOM: AI assisted annotation” The most recent Firetail Release 7 includes a AI-based segmentation of acceleration data that allows for the annotation of complete datasets in a few steps. It is our mission to offer a simple […]
Andean Condor Fledglings
A fascinating project on Andean condor fledglings is discussed in the recent newletter from our good friends over at e-obs. We are grateful that Firetail Release 7 was featured along with this exciting project. This is a great honor for us. Thank you e-obs! State-of-the art data from the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and high-resolution acceleration data work […]