WebBee and ViNCES Antonio Mauro Saraiva Universidade de São Paulo Agricultural Automation Laboratory 1
WebBee An information network on bee biodiversity.
Partners Laboratório de Abelhas IB-USP Laboratório de Automação Agrícola EP-USP Embrapa Amazônia Oriental Laboratório de Abelhas - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento Agrícola EBDA Univ. Estadual de Feira de Santana - UEFS 3
Database Species catalog images and texts Bees x plants Database modeled to handled much more WebBee
A web-based based information and monitoring system 5
WebBee Database Weather station (at IB/USP) graphics and table
Virtual network center of ecosystem services Research consortium Universidade de São Paulo Escola Politécnica Instituto de Biociências Collaboration of University of California, S. Diego Objectives Develop WebLabs on two ecosystem services Pollination Photosynthesis Research / Education / Awareness raising Use / develop content / applications for the Advanced Internet Gigabits/second Internet 7
KyaTera Network - São Paulo State Internet Internet2 Campinas RMAV-SP RNP2 8
Monitoring System 9
High resolution images of bees Database high resolution images (2560x1920pixels) 10
High resolution images for bee identification and classification It may replace the real specimen which is usually sent by mail for comparison Instead of this image 11
Use of Video via Internet on R&E on Pollination Objectives: Research Allow remote access to field or lab experiments Facilitate collaboration between researchers Use an Advanced Internet for real-time video streaming: HD video Education / training / decision making Make available materials on biology/ keeping of bees Reach wider audience: Geographically distributed audience different profiles commodity Internet SD videos 12
Database - Video Research and educational videos SD video (640x480) easy access via Internet behavioral patterns of each species. students, researchers and beekeepers can recognize bee species Behavior at the bee hive entrance (Melipona crinita) 13
BBB Video in real time for behavioral studies Communication Food source (waggle dance), General hive activity Queen and workers activity Colony growth Food stock (food pots for honey and pollen) Population Relation to environmental conditions (biotic/abiotic) Video definition research: HD video would be more adequate education/outreach: depends on the user (SD) 14
BBB: Real Time Video Streaming Real time video and sound captured on the beehive 15
Audio monitoring in a colony Audio analysis shows Patterns of communication, specially related with food availability and quality Set up uses Microphone, amplifier, PC sound card Labview software: acquisition and processing (VIs) Fast Fourier Transform and Spectrogram Analysis Partnership with James C. Nieh University of California, S. Diego 16
Audio monitoring and analysis Audio acquisition inside a colony Studies on audio inside a colony (communication) x other conditions (weather, food availability, threats). Patterns, spectra, level Partnership with James C. Nieh University of California, S. Diego 17
Final comments Next steps Video databases: increase number of species/behaviors Real time video Higher resolution video Complete connection to TIDIA network (Gbps) Long term experiments Web control over recording Move towards a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Metadata / standards to describe experiments/data Use biodiversity information standards and protocols Digir, Tapir, EML 18
EthoLog: : a Tool for Data Acquisition on Behavioral Studies Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Agricultural Automation Laboratory University of California, San Diego, USA Section of Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution James C. Nieh 19
Etholog Identify species Define events Register events
Database Data organized in a simple table format (v1.0) 21
Thank you! http://www.ib.usp.br/vinces http://webbee.org.br Acknowledgements: FAPESP and CNPq for the financial support 22
(Originally a) HD video 23