Bearcam Companion
Bearcam Companion is an experiment related to the BearID Project . BearID Project got its start many years ago when 2 engineers were watching the Explore.org bear cams and decided to try to build a machine learning application to identify bears. Those engineers got together with a conservation scientist in British Columbia. Together, we are working on methods to non-invasively identify brown bears in the wild using camera traps and the machine learning algorithms we are developing. You can read the back story here .
The team has always wanted to bring the project back to the bear cams. However, the machine learning models we have developed are very dependent on high quality photos, like those from a digital camera. The bear cam quality is …
BearID Project
If you are interested in learning about how we are tying to use Machine Learning to automatically identify brown bears in Katmai National Park, AK and Glendale Cove, BC, check out the BearID Project .
Brooks Camp maps
One of the most useful maps posted by viewers is by StephenB (sorry, forget last name). Not sure what the source, so if anyone knows please post info.
Katmai Wikai Help
Hope this helps. Let me just say I am in no way being negative or harsh to others. I know this needs to be done but it doesn't seem that people really listen, pay attention or really care about how many photos or comments they post on the Disqus chat. The comments section is overwelming for many. I have 2 good frinds that are older love the sight but are not comfortable posting pics and ask many questions some very repetative. They do not mean for it to be but they love Explore and are not tech savvy or know anything about computers or video cameras. I know for a fact they are afraid to try new stuff and even try out websites. It took me awhile to get them to partake besides just veiwing. Not eevryone is a guru and others do no…