A deployment is when a device is placed in the field with a specific configuration. For example, a wildlife camera trap being placed in a particular location, facing a certain direction, with a certain trigger sensitivity would be a deployment for that camera device.
If the camera was moved to a new location, had its facing changed or had its trigger sensitivity settings altered, this would affect the data being collected by this camera. Changing the location or facing would result in images being taken of a new environment, potentially altering the variety and abundance of species seen in images. Similarly, changing the trigger sensitivity might make a camera more or less likely to capture certain species. As such, this would be counted as a new deployment of the same device.
A single device can therefore be used in multiple deployments over time.
Every deployment is attached to one or more projects
Deployments have the following fields: