bulk image upload on turtlesat

 TurtleSAT has a new feature called 'Bulk Image Upload' which makes it easier to submit your turtle photos. The team at 1 Million Turtles work tirelessly to come up with ways to make it easier for the turtle lovers out there to play a part in their conservation. 

One this page, you will learn more about this feature and a video to learn how to use it. 

Some of us may have encountered a turtle (dead or alive), took a picture of it and forgot all about it. Now you can submit these photos to TurtleSAT using the 'Bulk Image Upload' feature - even if you only have one photo. This feature automatically detects and extract information such as the location, date and time that the photo was taken lessening the stress of having to remember where you took the photo. However, for this feature to work effectively, you must have switched on location services on your phone. This feature may also be useful for community groups or agencies who are currently engaged in freshwater turtle conservation efforts and have a large volume of photos yet to be submitted to TurtleSAT. You can drag all the photos at a go via this feature and submit them to TurtleSAT. 

 Before you begin, let's do a quick check to get you ready.   

Do you always take photos on your phone with the location service switched on? Why is this important? When you use the bulk image upload feature on TurtleSAT, it automatically extracts data such as the location, date and time when the photo was taken. Once all the photos have been uploaded, you will see a list of the photos uploaded and the 'Submit' button becomes visible. However, if any photos are missing the location data - these photos will be excluded from the upload. 

Are the photos on your phone saved externally? For example, photos taken on an iPhone gets saved on iCloud that can be accessed on a laptop or iPhone and photos taken on an Android phone on Google Photos. For easy upload, you can login to your photo storage platform and drag the relevant turtle photos to the bulk upload page on TurtleSAT. We have included a video below to help you get started.  

For iPhone users: Are your turtle photos saved in HEIF format? The bulk image upload feature on TurtleSAT does not support this image format. However, when the images are saved on iCloud - they are automatically transformed into 'JPEGs' making the process  easier and faster.

As long as your location service was switched on your phone, every photo you have taken would have automatically captured data such as the location, date and time. By uploading your images via the new bulk image upload feature on TurtleSAT, you no longer have to do a single data entry for each photo. All you need to do is drag and drop all your turtle photos via the bulk image upload page, select if you are uploading nesting or sighting photos, then select live or dead turtle, and finally click 'Submit'. That’s it - you are done! If have only one turtle photo, but feel that you cannot recall much detail about it – you can also use this feature to submit that photo. 

To successfully submit your photos via this bulk image upload feature, all your photos must have location, date and time data attached to it. Photos consisting with only date and time data, upon uploading it to TurtleSAT - you will see an error message highlighted with a faded red row. When you click 'Submit', the photos with missing information will be excluded from the upload. See below for an example.