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with the lesser Kestrel, has been demonstrated to be
a good method for studying these animals. The
proposed system permits us to do this evaluation
without stressing the animals and without the need
of a human observer. As a consequence, this
monitoring does not change the animal behaviour,
offering reliable information to researchers all over
the world that can access the information in real time
through the Internet.
The authors are currently working on several
improvements of the project: Increasing the number
of sensors, such as adding optical barriers over the
balance, with the goal of increasing robustness of the
body mass measurements; Studying the way to
increase the amount of pre-processing, using the rest
of the sensors, and looking for a simplification in the
use of the system information for the final user.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported by the Consejería de
Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía,
Spain, through the excellence projects HORUS 2006
(reference number P06-RNM-01712), HORUS
2009 (reference number P06-RNM-04588) ARTICA
(reference number P07-TIC-02476), and eSAPIENS
(reference number TIC-5705). The authors would
like to thank the Cámara Agraria de La Palma del
Condado, Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca de la
Junta de Andalucía, Reserva Biológica de Doñana –
ICTS y Espacio Natural Doñana (Almonte, Huelva)
for their collaboration and support.
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