Software
We develop open source software tools
Bird migration flow visualization
JS An interactive flow visualization of bird migration as detected by weather radars. Inspired by air and developed for the European Network for the Radar Surveillance of Animal Movement (ENRAM). See Shamoun-Baranes et al. 2016 for a paper describing the visualization. It was also used to visualize bird migration over Europe for Nilsson et al. 2019 (download movie).
CartoDB visualizations
CartoDB See our blog posts on how we have visualized bird migration and tracking data with CartoDB.
CROW
JS CROW is an online tool to visualize birds detected by weather radars. It pulls real-time open data of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) and visualizes it in the browser.
LIFE MICA dashboard
The MICA dashboard gives a comprehensive overview of all muskrat and coypu observations (both catches and field observations) in Flanders, the Netherlands and certain areas in Germany. The available data is automatically refreshed daily from GBIF.
LIFE RIPARIAS early alert
The LIFE RIPARIAS early alert website allows field managers to be immediately aware when new observations of invasive species occur in Belgium by providing a flexible e-mail notification mechanism. The available data is automatically refreshed daily from GBIF.
Vespa-Watch
Python Vespa-Watch is a website where citizen scientists can submit observations of Vespa velutina, an invasive species in Belgium. The data are automatically synchronized with iNaturalist for verification and used to manage the spread of the species.
vptstools
Python vptstools is used in an operational pipeline to process incoming biological data derived from European weather radars. It reformats and deposits the data on the Aloft data portal, where it can be used by the radar aeroecology community.
Whip
YAML Whip is a human and machine-readable syntax to express specifications for data. We use it with the pywhip package to document and test if data provided by our partners meet the necessary requirements for publication. See Van Hoey & Desmet 2018 for a presentation.