CameraSweet is a procedure & collection of apps that offer a simple way to organize & analyse trail camera data. All the apps are local and pictures do not need to be uploaded to the internet.
Do this first
Step by step instructions on how to relabel, organize, store, and analyze camera trap photographs without entering data by hand from a keyboard.
Program files
ReNamer Lite
The freeware program ReNamer is used to simultaneously relabel all camera trap pictures in folder.
DataOrganizer
Version 4.5: 2020.03.03
Add user error checking.
UpdatedInput
Creates new AllPictures.txt and InputTemp.txt files.
CorrectInput
Steps for correcting camera start/stop times.
SpecialReNamer
SpecialReNamer corrects files with the wrong time and relabels burst files uniquely.
GroupOccupancy
GroupOccupancy is the analog of OccupancyMatrix. GroupOccupancy produces occupancy matrices using grouped locations.
IndivToSpecies
IndivToSpecies is used to create an AllPictures.txt file where individuals of a species are restored to species.
Corridor
Version 1: 2018.01.25
Used to analyze what species travel between two locations that are ends of a corridor.
Persistence
Version 6: 2017.10.21
Produces a probability density function of a species visit to a location.
Area Calculator
IndivToSpecies is used to create an AllPictures.txt file where individuals of a species are restored to species.
SpecialReNamer AVI
Version 1.1: 2018.08.24
Relabels video files that have the wrong date and/or time.
Library
The library file needed to run all the programs.
DataAnalyze
Version 6.1: 2020.12.25
Add user error checking.
CreateInput
Creates InputTemp.txt from an existing AllPictures.txt file or an AllPictures.txt file created by program Concatenate.
OccupancyMatrix
Version 1.4: 2017.06.26
OccupancyMatrix creates occupancy matrices for use in program Presence.
GroupAnalyze
Version 3.4: 2018.01.25
GroupAnalyze groups camera locations and presents results by group instead of by camera like DataAnalyze does.
DensityMatrix
DensityMatrix creates the individual x absence/presence matrix for use in CAPTURE, SPACECAP, and other density estimation programs.
Concatenate
Concatenates AllPictures.txt files. Duplicate lines are eliminated.
AbundanceMatrix
Version 1.2: 2022.02.15
Works like OccupancyMatrix but instead of absence-presence 0-1 data, the number of independent pictures is computed.
Relabler
Follows
Version 1: 2017.03.31
Sanderson & Harris 2013
Version 1.2: 2022.02.15
Updated methodology described in Harris et al. (2010) by providing a step-by step guide for automatic camera trap data storage and analysis without entering data by hand from a keyboard.