# Transect Notes
> Practical guidance for using artificial intelligence in camera-trap surveys, bird-sound identification and volunteer biodiversity recording.

## Entries
- [How to Triage 40,000 Camera-Trap Images Without Losing Wildlife Records](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/camera-trap-image-triage-workflow/): A large camera-trap archive should be processed in stages: identify likely empty frames, separate images containing animals, and send uncertain or potentially.
- [Bird-Sound Identification Apps and the Limits of Presence and Absence](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/bird-sound-presence-absence-interpretation/): A bird-sound identification app can suggest that a species vocalization is present in a recording, but its output alone cannot establish population presence.
- [How to Write Metadata for AI-Labeled Wildlife Images](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/metadata-for-ai-labelled-wildlife-images/): AI-labeled wildlife images need metadata that separates the original observation from the machine's suggested identification and any later human correction.
- [How to Add AI Image Classification to a Citizen Science Project: A Volunteer Coordinator's Checklist](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/volunteer-image-classification-checklist/): AI image classification can help citizen science projects organize large image collections, but it requires clear identification rules, consistent metadata and.
- [How to Design a Spot-Check Sample for Auditing Automated Species Labels](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/audit-automated-species-labels/): A useful spot-check sample should represent the range of images and classifications in a wildlife dataset, with additional attention to rare taxa, uncertain.
- [Naming Wild Animals: Anthropomorphism in Field Notes and Character-Driven Software](https://transect-notes.pages.dev/naming-wild-animals-field-notes/): Giving a wild animal a name or describing its behavior in human terms can make field notes readable, memorable and useful for communicating observations.

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