InsectUp: Crowdsourcing Insect Observations to Assess Demographic Shifts and Improve Classification. (arXiv:1906.11898v2 [cs.CV] CROSS LISTED)

Insects play such a crucial role in ecosystems that a shift in demography of
just a few species can have devastating consequences at environmental, social
and economic levels. Despite this, evaluation of insect demography is strongly
limited by the difficulty of collecting census data at sufficient scale. We
propose a method to gather and leverage observations from bystanders, hikers,
and entomology enthusiasts in order to provide researchers with data that could
significantly help anticipate and identify environmental threats. Finally, we …

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