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Adding flight track to video with Mavic 3 Enterprise conservationdrones.org/2023/…

Adding flight track to video with Mavic 3 Enterprise

With the new DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise series it became very easy to add the flight track to the video on a screen which is useful for surveys for instance. I put up a video on YouTube were the overla…

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Deep learning for animal detection in drone images with ConservationAI conservationdrones.org/2023/…
Deep learning for animal detection in drone images with ConservationAI

Deep learning for animal detection in drone images with ConservationAI

Together with several collaborators the ConservationAI team is using deep learning to detect animals in video footage from drones. See these links for an example for the Arabian Oryx and spider mon…

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Very cool use of drones!
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Surveying and collecting rare plant species that grow on steep cliffs has been a risky affair for scientists and conservationists for hundreds of years. A new tool is trying to solve the problem in Hawai‘i. news.mongabay.com/2022/11/a-…
A flying robot swoops in via Quebec to save endangered plants in Hawai‘i

A flying robot swoops in via Quebec to save endangered plants in Hawai‘i

For far too long, studying plant species endemic to high-altitude cliffs was no small feat. More often than not, it involved researchers abseiling down cliffs to survey rare species and collect...

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So many terms for the things we fly! Drone, uav, uas, and so forth! What to use? conservationdrones.org/2022/…
So many terms for the things we fly! Drone, uav, uas, and so forth! What to use?

So many terms for the things we fly! Drone, uav, uas, and so forth! What to use?

‘Drone’: technically correct, popularly accepted, socially acceptable: Different fields use different terms, but by changing its title, the journal Drone Systems and Applications (formerly the Jour…

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An exciting application for drones: Collecting cliff plants! youtube.com/watch?v=YLRFCrC4… conservationdrones.org/2022/…
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Noninvasive Technologies for Primate Conservation in the 21st Century conservationdrones.org/2021/…
Noninvasive Technologies for Primate Conservation in the 21st Century

Noninvasive Technologies for Primate Conservation in the 21st Century

Drones are part of a set of technologies used in conservation. Our open access paper describes a number of technologies that are used to support primate conservation. You can download the paper her…

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New book on conservation technology conservationdrones.org/2021/…
New book on conservation technology

New book on conservation technology

Drones are part of a whole array of technologies (e.g. camera traps, acoustic sensors, loggers, satellites) that can be used as tools to support conservation efforts. Alex Piel and I were fortunate…

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Steps to build a DIY low-cost fixed-wing drone for biodiversity conservation conservationdrones.org/2021/…
Steps to build a DIY low-cost fixed-wing drone for biodiversity conservation

Steps to build a DIY low-cost fixed-wing drone for biodiversity conservation

Geison Mesquita launching the DIY drone In an open-access paper led by Geison Mesquita the steps to build a low-cost DIY fixed wing drones are clearly explained for non-engineers. This is a great r…

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Video analysis for the detection of animals using convolutional neural networks and consumer-grade drones conservationdrones.org/2021/…
Video analysis for the detection of animals using convolutional neural networks and consumer-grad...

Video analysis for the detection of animals using convolutional neural networks and consumer-grad...

In April of this year we published a paper on using neural networks for object detection in video images from drones in near real time. We used a DJI Mavic 2 Pro for this test but other drones can …

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Drone training in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines conservationdrones.org/2021/…

Drone training in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The conservationdrones team just returned from a drone training in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. You can find more details here.

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The Next Generation ConservationDrones Long Range VTOL is out conservationdrones.org/2021/…
The Next Generation ConservationDrones Long Range VTOL is out

The Next Generation ConservationDrones Long Range VTOL is out

Next Generation ConservationDrones Long Range VTOL The next generation ConservationDrone is capable of vertical take-off and landing or VTOL in full auto mode and fly a distance of 70 KM. We believ…

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New paper using drones for orangutan conservation is out conservationdrones.org/2021/…
New paper using drones for orangutan conservation is out

New paper using drones for orangutan conservation is out

Sol Milne led a new paper titled”Drivers of Bornean Orangutan Distribution across a Multiple-Use Tropical Landscape” that has been published today in Remote Sensing. It is open access a…

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Bandro lemur habitat video conservationdrones.org/2020/…
Bandro lemur habitat video

Bandro lemur habitat video

The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Liverpool John Moores University collaborate on a project to survey the critically endangered bandro lemur population and habitat with drones. A video of…

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Drones help researchers evaluate effect of boat noise on whales conservationdrones.org/2020/…
Drones help researchers evaluate effect of boat noise on whales

Drones help researchers evaluate effect of boat noise on whales

A recent study in eLife led by Dr. Kate Sprogis examines the effects of boat noise level on whales. The research team explored whale responses to boat noise using behavioral observations captured w…

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New temporary post for a machine learning expert conservationdrones.org/2020/…
New temporary post for a machine learning expert

New temporary post for a machine learning expert

For a project on automated orangutan nest detection on drone images we are looking for a machine learning expert who is interested in conservation to be part of our drone and machine learning team …

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New paper on swifts conservationdrones.org/2020/…

New paper on swifts

Geison Mequita led this new study in Current Zoology on swifts in Brazil where we examined the effect of a small multirotor on swift behaviour.

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ConservationAI Update conservationdrones.org/2020/…
ConservationAI Update

ConservationAI Update

We have been working hard on the ConservationAI website. It has some new models on there to detect species. The system can be used for drone and camera trap data. It also allows for camera trap dat…

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Looking for drone footage from African mammals for machine learning conservationdrones.org/2020/…
Looking for drone footage from African mammals for machine learning

Looking for drone footage from African mammals for machine learning

It has been quiet here but we have not been stopping our drone work. In collaboration with Carl Chalmers, Paul Fergus, and Steve Longmore we have been working on a site to start training machine le…

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Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and Coastal Areas conservationdrones.org/2019/…
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Drones to detect fires conservationdrones.org/2019/…
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