Abstract
NAIRA III uses computational intelligence techniques to extract metadata, create databases, help species tagging and automatically classify captured species into trap camera images. This performs the image processing in seven steps: the first step consists in extracting the metadata related to the information corresponding to the precise moment of the photographic capture, such as date, time and geographical coordinates (when the camera records this information), and the information that is printed in the photo frame such as the moon phase, temperature or camera code (Figure 1). The extracted data is organized in a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel format, which has been built following the Darwin Core format standards.
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