New technologies are constantly emerging in marine biology to aid research and conservation efforts. We are excited to introduce our latest innovation, the microPAT, a compact satellite pop-up tag designed for tracking the behavior and location of small marine animals that do not come to...

As a reminder, we are closed for the holiday season from 20 December 2022 until 3 January 2023. It has been another incredible year witnessing the astounding research and projects our clients achieved in 2022. Your work has led to ground-breaking policy changes, management decisions, and...

When communicating with a MiniPAT using Tag Agent, there’s an optional action to run a Test Transmission. One of the reasons to run a Test Transmission is to check the health of the battery. Tag Agent reports the results, but it also logs the results...

NOAA gave a media briefing on September 27th, announcing the exciting news of a launch date for a new Argos-4 instrument. This launch has been 10 years in the making. This Argos-4 instrument will be a hosted payload (HoPS) aboard the General Atomic’s GAzelle commercial...

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When you get a call from a client saying that a tag isn’t working as expected, you send your intrepid mechanical engineer, Andy Leask, to Greenland to figure out what is going on. Field trials are critical to the research and development of new tags. Over...

[caption id="attachment_11055" align="alignright" width="200"] MiniPAT-390[/caption] Over the last three years, Wildlife Computers has put extensive effort and time into testing and reworking the nose cones on our pop-up tags. We incorporated knowledge from our old and current designs with new techniques to create a design that...

Fastloc® GPS, the most accepted and proven location acquisition technology, just got better. Fastloc 4, the latest version of Fastloc, gives you a tag that lasts longer and provides more reliable and accurate locations. Combining Fastloc 4 with LocSolve 2.0, the proprietary software used to...

The SPLASH tags are entering a new era, including a new name - we're getting rid of the "10" to differentiate between our current models and our new ones. As we upgrade our shapes with the new software, you may still see SPLASH10 tags. Our updated...

LocSolve™, the proprietary software used to post-process Fastloc® GPS data, received a significant upgrade in the Wildlife Computers Data Portal. When a tag on a marine animal breaks the water’s surface, it acquires a snapshot of signals from the detected GPS satellites. The tag then uses...

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