Chronolog — Fixed-Angle Repeat Photography Sites
Community-science timelapse photo platform. Land-steward organizations install fixed-angle photo stations (3D-printed phone bracket + signage) at restoration / monitoring sites; visitors photograph the same view repeatedly and email submissions in. The platform auto-aligns, crops, moderates, and stitches into a per-site timelapse GIF. Largest deployed fixed-angle ground-truth photo network outside government (~1,500 stations vs PhenoCam ~700). Customers concentrated in NPS (Assateague / Olympic / Shenandoah / Lewis & Clark / Big Thicket / Indiana Dunes), BLM (Applegate), city/county parks-and-rec, Cary Institute, Wytham Woods. Founded 2017 by Jake Rose + Ky Wildermuth, bootstrapped sub-$1M ARR, 2-10 staff. Built on Vercel / Next.js / Clerk / Mapbox + AWS Amplify+GraphQL backend; email-in upload path; no public API, no GitHub, no STAC / Darwin Core / GBIF / Zenodo push. Walled garden at the data layer. ToS is permissive (commercial sub-licensable) but not open. Sits *upstream of pixels* — fixed-angle RGB ground witness, not a peer of GBIF/iNaturalist (observation data) or PhenoCam (instrumented network); sibling of PhenoCam Network and USGS Repeat Photography Project.
| Provider | Chronolog (LifeLike Labs co-builder) |
|---|---|
| Type | citizen |
| CNR score | 18 |
| Origin | https://www.chronolog.io/ |
| Provider URL | https://www.chronolog.io/about-us |