Data Analytics
Monitoring projects can generate hundreds, if not thousands, of detections per season from whole cohorts of tags potential spread across several study locations. Establishing simple presence/absence of an individual can be daunting, saying nothing of riverwide movement spanning seasonal changes, hydrology and the like.
Through custom built software, Vagoferus organizes individuals, species and sites into accessible and manipulable spreadsheets and journey maps. Want to know how hydrology shifts, photo period, or moon phase affect movement? It can all be integrated for a descriptive look at what occurred throughout the seasons for your species.
Monitoring Design
Long before data analysis can take place, monitoring arrays must be installed into sites throughout the study area. But the placement- both across the river scape and within the water column, design, number and tag type can greatly affect the project’s efficacy. Specific species of interest may call for different placements, depending on life history, or highly variable flow events might frequently reform the channel.
Vagoferus can assist in determining the ideal placement and design for an antenna array on a given monitoring project, and inform on decisions such as tag types, site considerations, even solar power options.
Monitoring Implementation
Have a recently installed fish passage about who’s efficacy you’re wondering, or maybe the movement of a species of concern through a difficult river corridor but lack the manpower for full implementation? From installation of antenna arrays, to PIT tagging events, array maintenance and data uploads, all the way through to data analysis, Vagoferus can help find answers with full service monitoring plans.
Cloud Service
Monitoring projects can produce vast quantities of data between array detections, individual tag information, hydrological data, and more, often from a variety sources, especially when long term projects see collaborations between agencies or across state lines. To keep all such data centralized and up to date, information can be uploaded and centralized to Vagoferus’ cloud service. This self-service interface allows immediate access for clients to both upload data, and to constantly evolving journey reports and outcomes.
Explore the discoveries waiting in your data and your rivers
Be it data management or full scale installation, greater information leads to better conservation.