Paper Info
Title
WildSense: Monitoring Interactions among Wild Deer in Harsh Outdoor Environments Using a Delay-Tolerant WSN.
Abstract
Biologists and ecologists often monitor the spread of disease among deer in the wild by using tracking systems that record their movement patterns, locations, and interaction behavior. The existing commercial systems for monitoring wild deer utilize collars with GPS sensors, deployed on captured and rereleased deer. The GPS sensors record location data every few hours, enabling researchers to approximate the interaction behavior of tracked deer with their GPS locations. However, the coarse granularity of periodically recorded GPS location data provides only limited precision for determining deer interaction behavior. We have designed a novel system to monitor wild deer interaction behavior more precisely in harsh wilderness environments. Our system combines the functionalities of both GPS and RF-radio sensors with low-cost and minimal-resource motes. We designed and built our system to be able to operate robustly for a period of up to several months for continual tracking and monitoring of the locations and interaction behaviors of wild deer in harsh environments. We successfully deployed six deer collars on six wild deer that were captured and rereleased in the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area of northern Colorado over a one-month period. In this paper, we describe how we designed and built this system and evaluate its successful operation in a wilderness area.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1155/2016/1693460
JOURNAL OF SENSORS
Field
DocType
Volume
Remote sensing,Tracking system,Location data,Wilderness area,Global Positioning System,Engineering,Wilderness
Journal
2016
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1687-725X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junho Ahn1736.61
Akshay Mysore220.71
Kati Zybko300.34
Caroline Krumm400.34
Sravan Thokala501.01
Xinyu Xing637035.71
Ming Lian700.34
Richard Han82771200.83
shivakant mishra91521138.23
Thompson Hobbs1000.34