DRONE FUTURE
Aug 14, 2019
9 minutes
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Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are rapidly changing the face of the conservation industry. They have the potential to revolutionise conservation and spatial ecology. At the core of conservation is the monitoring of species populations and their habitats.
Traditional approaches to collecting species populations and habitats data may be resource intensive, potentially inaccurate, difficult to validate [1] and may pose a significant threat to human safety due to the presence of dangerous animals or environments. In fact, the leading cause of wildlife workers’ deaths
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