Fig. 1

Overview of the envisioned elephant early warning and monitoring system. The first step of analysis is the detection of elephants either visually through video and thermal cameras or acoustically through a microphone (array). Different detection mechanisms may be combined in a multimodal approach. Automatically recognized detections can be directly input to an early warning systems or serve as a basis for higher-level tasks. The analysis layer contains the most important higher-level tasks in our context. Highlighted tasks have been investigated and automated in the course of the project