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Kathleen Martin
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Engineers from the University of Southampton, and conservationists at Marwell Wildlife have successfully trialed the use of drone technology, as a new approach to assisting conservation efforts, writes the University of Southampton in a press release.
The collaboration between the IRIS Centre of Excellence, SotonUAV, Marwell Wildlife and the School of Biological Sciences involved several flight trials at the zoo to test how effective drones carrying specialist cameras and noise sensors could be in identifying and monitoring animals from the air.
The teams conducted the flights in October and November, performing several flights above the zoo’s Wild Explorer’s paddock, which holds herds of critically endangered Grevy’s zebras, scimitar-horned oryx and white rhinos.
The goal is to employ these technologies in remote areas where threatened animal populations are more difficult to monitor.
Dr Mark Pickering, Impact Acceleration Manager at the IRIS Centre of Excellence, said: “These trials here at Marwell allowed us to gather a great deal of data which we can now work with to look into things like image processing algorithms and machine learning.”
Continue reading: https://innovationorigins.com/en/selected/drones-to-support-wildlife-conservation/
The collaboration between the IRIS Centre of Excellence, SotonUAV, Marwell Wildlife and the School of Biological Sciences involved several flight trials at the zoo to test how effective drones carrying specialist cameras and noise sensors could be in identifying and monitoring animals from the air.
The teams conducted the flights in October and November, performing several flights above the zoo’s Wild Explorer’s paddock, which holds herds of critically endangered Grevy’s zebras, scimitar-horned oryx and white rhinos.
The goal is to employ these technologies in remote areas where threatened animal populations are more difficult to monitor.
Dr Mark Pickering, Impact Acceleration Manager at the IRIS Centre of Excellence, said: “These trials here at Marwell allowed us to gather a great deal of data which we can now work with to look into things like image processing algorithms and machine learning.”
Continue reading: https://innovationorigins.com/en/selected/drones-to-support-wildlife-conservation/
