Drone Ecology
One of my pet research projects is exploring emerging trends in remote sensing technology and how it potentially relates to landscape architecture. My recent article in Kerb was about these crazy devices on an island community in the south Atlantic. It was interesting how adept the locals were at using these highly specialised tools to assist scientist and also to monitor what was happening on their island.
Science mag has just published a piece on remote sensing of biodiversity. The author, Woody Turner, makes a strong point that with the improvement of these technologies a stronger collaboration between ecologists and geographers is emerging. It is the combination between all these devices, aerial and terrestrial, that are restructuring our understanding of biodiversity and dynamic habitats.
And one of the newest tools to emerge recently is the affordable Drone. Drones are now almost a standard tool for ecologist working in the field. One of the most interesting groups, originally starting in Australia but now across the world, is Conservation Drones. The organisation works with NGOs across the globe. Most of their work so far has been on habitat modelling but more often drones are also being used to map terrestrial animals.
Original article: http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1026-remote-sensing-networking-for-conservation.html
CITATION: Woody Turner. Sensing biodiversity. SCIENCE 17 OCTOBER 2014. VOL 346 ISSUE 6207
Visit http://conservationdrones.org/ for more information.
Science mag has just published a piece on remote sensing of biodiversity. The author, Woody Turner, makes a strong point that with the improvement of these technologies a stronger collaboration between ecologists and geographers is emerging. It is the combination between all these devices, aerial and terrestrial, that are restructuring our understanding of biodiversity and dynamic habitats.
And one of the newest tools to emerge recently is the affordable Drone. Drones are now almost a standard tool for ecologist working in the field. One of the most interesting groups, originally starting in Australia but now across the world, is Conservation Drones. The organisation works with NGOs across the globe. Most of their work so far has been on habitat modelling but more often drones are also being used to map terrestrial animals.
Original article: http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1026-remote-sensing-networking-for-conservation.html
CITATION: Woody Turner. Sensing biodiversity. SCIENCE 17 OCTOBER 2014. VOL 346 ISSUE 6207
Visit http://conservationdrones.org/ for more information.
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