Remote sensing coupled with improvements in databases and sensors has brought the era of “big data” to animal ecology. Ecologists now have access to data that even just a decade ago were unavailable. Capitalizing on this era of “big data” and turning remotely sensed and transmitted data into useful information for policy makers and managers, however, remains a challenge. Utah’s Wildlife Migration Initiative is a collaborative project that has resulted in the development of solutions to make information from marked animals readily available in real time. We’ve marked 2,854 individual animals and collected over 14 million spatial locations.
