Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020's edition of the LifeWatch Users & Stakeholders Meeting happened entirely online!
On day 1 (October 15th) the Belgian LifeWatch partners brought a series of user stories, while on day 2 (October 16th), specific aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were demonstrated.
Agenda:
10:00-10:20: General introduction LifeWatch Belgium (Klaas Deneudt, VLIZ)
10:35-10:50: Downstream migration through a shipping canal: challenges on the road (Jenna Vergeynst, UGent)
10:50-11:00: Interactive questionnaire: which training is needed in the future?
11:45-12:00: 15 minutes of questions
12:00-12:10: Closure of day 1 (outlook, prospects)
10:00-10:05: Short introduction
10:05-10:25: LifeWatch data R package (Lennert Schepers, VLIZ)
10:25-10:45: Agouti: A platform for managing wildlife camera-trapping projects (Tanja Milotic, INBO)
10:45-11:05: Exploring the landscape via the ecotopes with GIS softwares (Julien Radoux, LifeWatch-WB)
11:05-11:25: POLA3R (Maxime Sweetlove, Biodiversity.aq)
11:25-11:45: The process of DNA-based species identification: bushmeat as a case story (Ann Vanderheyden, BopCo)