Conservation technology

We build the systems conservation runs on.

earthtoolsmaker works with research institutes, NGOs and public agencies to design, build and deploy monitoring technology, from sonar and camera networks to drones and acoustic sensors.

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15 Projects delivered in the field 21 Partners institutes, NGOs, agencies 10⁺ Species from salmon to elephants 5 Field tools in use today

Featured Projects

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Early Forest Fire Detection

Democratize open and low-tech solutions for fighting wildfires, for the benefit of the ecosystems and the citizens.

Wild Salmon Migration Monitoring

The project monitors wild salmon migration to ensure the number passing through meets state regulations, addressing threats from human activities like fisheries and dams.

Forest Elephants Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Conservation efforts struggle to monitor forest elephants in dense rainforests, with acoustic monitoring providing a promising solution via accurate, user-friendly detection systems that aid in population monitoring and anti-poaching efforts while mitigating human-elephant conflicts.

Scaling the EarthRanger Platform

A backend engineering mission with the EarthRanger team at Ai2, separating read and write query paths, partitioning the database, and speeding up the APIs that power real-time conservation across 900+ protected areas.

Coastal Erosion and Land Cover Monitoring

Drone-based monitoring of coastal erosion, sedimentation and land cover change on the Wadden Sea coast, served through an interactive web portal.

Monitoring Smolt Salmon Migration with Sonar

An innovative use of sonar imagery to monitor and analyze the migration patterns of smolt salmon as they journey from freshwater to the ocean

Our Tools

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Free, open-source software we build with field teams. Explore each one and try it for yourself.

Pyronear

Democratizing open and low-tech solutions for fighting wildfires. An early detection solution that is open source, efficient, automatic, energy-efficient, economical and modular.

SalmonVision

Underwater cameras, sonar and drones combined with innovative AI technology to enable precise and automated salmon counting in rivers.

Biowatch

Open-source desktop app for analyzing camera trap data. Runs 100% locally, so your sensitive wildlife data never leaves your computer.

Our Partners

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Mateo Lostanlen

Co-founder and CEO - Pyronear

We absolutely love working with you. You are incredibly professional. They trained our latest model and achieved outstanding performance, setting a new benchmark. They also implemented the MLOps pipeline!

Will Atlas

Salmon Watershed Scientist - Wild Salmon Center

It has been an absolute pleasure working with you on SalmonVision. Your diverse skillset, ability to be forward thinking, and work with our team of collaborators was essential to the success of our project. We really couldn't have done it without you! I hope we can continue working together to improve and expand the tools offered by SalmonVision over the coming years.

Yohan Runhaar

CTO - ReefSupport

I am very excited for what is ahead, there is so much potential in the work that's been done. Your hard work and passion have really shone through!

Thijs Suijten

Co-founder & CTO - HackThePlanet

They really helped us by training a YOLOv8 model for our system to prevent human-bear-conflicts. He thinks along well, knows what he is talking about and is a nice person to work with!

Melanie Clapham

Director & Conservation Scientist - The BearID Project

There is definitely a want and need from the conservation community to work with people like you, with your expertise, as the technical side to this type of development is often the barrier.