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 - [TrapTagger](https://github.com/WildEyeConservation/TrapTagger) - AI-Powered Camera-Trap Imagery Processing.
 - [ecoSecrets](https://github.com/naturalsolutions/ecoSecrets) - An open-source web application that aims to facilitate biodiversity studies that use autonomous data collection devices such as camera traps.
 - [WildlifeDatasets](https://github.com/WildlifeDatasets/wildlife-datasets) - Pipeline for wildlife re-identification including dataset zoo, training tools and trained models.
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+- [rcites](https://github.com/ropensci/rcites) - An R package to access information from the Speciesplus database, a centralised portal to key information on species of global concern.
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 ### Wildfire
 - [wildfire forecasting](https://github.com/ECMWFCode4Earth/wildfire-forecasting) - The project intends to reproduce the Fire Forecasting capabilities of GEFF using Deep Learning and develop further improvements in accuracy, geography and time scale through inclusion of additional variables or optimization of model architecture and hyperparameters.
 - [caliver](https://github.com/ecmwf/caliver) - CALIbration and VERification of gridded fire danger models.