Amboseli Elephant Research Project

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Amboseli Elephant Research Project

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Non Profit Organisation

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Kenya

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Africa

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Kenya

Project Funding:

The African Elephant Conservation Trust

Type of technology used:

Data Management and Information Sharing

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Quickbird Satellite Imagery

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Conservation/Developmant Focus:

Elephant

Project Duration:

Ongoing

Project Aims:

The project has a 30-year database of information about the Amboseli elephant population and their habitats. DigitalGlobe QuickBird satellite imagery is helping researchers to locate elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park and surrounding ecosystem to learn more about social interactions and their use of the ecosystem (implications for conservation especially human-wildlife conflict, protected area initiatives etc). 61-centimeter resolution of QuickBird imagery can distinguish the location and size of individual elephant groups. The potential of satellite imagery and advanced software techniques to track and observe elephant movements is consistent with the AERP's philosophy of non-invasive research. This is in contrast to the traditional method of fitting elephants with radio collars to track their movements.

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Contact Name 1:

Dr Cynthia Moss

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P.O. Box 15135, Langata, Nairobi, Kenya

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info@elephanttrust.org

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