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.
ENRAM data repository
Python The ENRAM data repository provides access to vertical profiles of birds (vp) data for Europe, which are used in radar aeroecology studies. The data are generated by vol2bird from polar volume data of over 100 weather radars in Europe and archived automatically on Amazon S3.
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.
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.