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Wildlife Imagery Survey Detection and Mapping

WISDAM is a free open source app designed for researchers conducting wildlife imagery surveys to produce data suitable for abundance estimation and spatial modelling from aerial photographic surveys of marine and terrestrial megafauna.

Wildlife Imagery Survey Detection and Mapping

WISDAM is a free open source app designed for researchers conducting wildlife imagery surveys to produce data suitable for abundance estimation and spatial modelling from aerial photographic surveys of marine and terrestrial megafauna.

Our mission is to provide free innovative tools, developed by experts, that enable non-experts to monitor species populations and their habitats. Our vision is to promote the global protection of our wildlife and the ecosystems that are critical to their survival as well as ours.

Our WISDAM software package allows you to digitise objects within images and to enrich those objects with metadata. You can import images from any aerial platform source, and WISDAM uses the power of georeferenced images to map image footprints and objects to real-world coordinates. You can import detections generated by an AI process and WISDAM provides a user-friendly workflow to visualise, verify and enrich these objects with metadata. With customisable image and object labelling, WISDAM standardises the image review process and provides a range of data outputs, including AI training data.

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Taxa our AI can currently detect

Dugong

Whale

Dolphin

Turtle

Ray

Shark

Latest news

WISDAM Blog

WISDAM workshop at Thailand’s Prince of Songkla University

30 July 2026

In-person training equipped PSU researchers with advanced drone, AI and survey skills to strengthen dugong research and monitoring.

WISDAM Blog

We’ve launched our GitHub repository and new website

9 November 2024

We'd love for developers to become involved in WISDAM and work towards improving our app.

Google Blog

How Google’s AI helped Australian researchers with conservation efforts

9 October 2023

Have you ever seen a dugong in real life? These big, friendly-looking vegetarians (affectionately called “sea cows”) can be found...

This tool will empower users to conduct imagery surveys and consistently map animal and habitat detections with ease and accuracy. WISDAM represents a significant advancement for future imagery-based environmental surveys worldwide.

Christophe Cleguer

WISDAM offers significant advantages, especially with its georeferencing feature, which makes our work very systematic. The tool provides valuable support for the manual labelling of images. Overall, it’s a very useful software for marine animal aerial survey.

Abie Ario Digdo - YAPEKA

The WISDAM app has not only served as a stepping stone into megafauna image analysis but has also enhanced institutional capacity in AI animal monitoring software. Its implementation has sparked discussions about utilising UAVs for monitoring other marine species on Aldabra atoll such as rays and sharks.

Veronique Banane - Seychelles Island Foundation

WISDAM has been instrumental in supporting the Seagrass Ecosystem Service project by building the capacity of local partners in the Indo-Pacific region and ensuring efforts toward conservation of Dugongs and Seagrass are grounded in robust, data-driven, scientific evidence.

Yasmeen Telwala - Seagrass Ecosystem Service Project, Dugong MoU, UN CMS
Featured Projects

Seagrass Ecosystem Services Project

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Five local NGO research partners throughout SE Asia conducted small-scale surveys of dugongs to quantify the services provided by seagrass in supporting biodiversity.

The Seagrass Ecosystem Service project, funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and implemented by CMS Dugong MOU, focuses on the conservation of seagrass ecosystems at critical sites in six countries.

Using Drones for Large-Scale Marine Megafauna Surveys

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Working in collaboration with several individuals and universities we developed methods for using drones to survey marine mammals.

In our early efforts to develop drone survey methods, we were partnered with Insitu Pacific Inc.to test their high-end drone for large-scale marine megafauna surveys. This 3-year series of trial surveys showed us that aerial imagery surveys were a positive step forward but highlighted the need for image processing solutions.

Dugong surveys in the Seychelles

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The Seychelles Islands Foundation is using drones for the first time to survey dugongs in the remote Aldabra Atoll.

Drones are an excellent option for marine fauna surveys in this remote part of the world. And by providing remote assistant alongside WISDAM, the SIF successfully completed a series of surveys.

Your Own Project Here

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Have you used our software? What have you learnt from using it? We are looking for users of our software to share their story.

There are many ways to get involved with WISDAM. We are keen to hear from our users so we can make improvements. We would love to receive any feedback you have. We are obviously eager to hear any success stories of how our app has benefited your conservation initiative.