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Cars as a tool for monitoring and protecting biodiversity

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Modern cars have an array of sensors that allow different objects to be recognized, including large and small animals. They thus have the potential to become a tool for monitoring biodiversity and improving driver safety. But to achieve this various challenges in computing, communications and privacy need to be addressed.

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Fig. 1: Cars as a global network of moving sensors.

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    Fernando Ascensão & Cristina Branquinho

  2. Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

    Fernando Ascensão & Eloy Revilla

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Ascensão, F., Branquinho, C. & Revilla, E. Cars as a tool for monitoring and protecting biodiversity. Nat Electron 3, 295–297 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0430-z

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