Effective management of threatened and invasive species requires regular and reliable
population estimates. Drones are increasingly utilised by ecologists for this purpose as they …

Effective wildlife management relies on the accurate and precise detection of individual
animals. These can be challenging data to collect for many cryptic species, particularly those …

Wildlife monitoring can be time-consuming and expensive, but the fast-developing
technologies of uncrewed aerial vehicles, sensors, and machine learning pave the way for …

Aerial imagery surveys are commonly used in marine mammal research to determine
population size, distribution and habitat use. Analysis of aerial photos involves hours of …

Monitoring waterfowl populations and distribution is important for conservation. This paper
presents our recent work on creating new aerial image datasets collected by drones and …

Targeted management of threatened species is central to preventing species extinctions,
and effective monitoring forms a crucial component of successful management programmes …

Drones are widely used for wildlife monitoring. Deep learning algorithms are key to the
success of monitoring wildlife with drones, although they face the problem of detecting small …

Aquatic megafauna are difficult to observe and count due to the inaccessibility and issues of
detectability. Traditional transect and helicopter counts are useful for obtaining population …

Population monitoring of colonial seabirds is often complicated by the large size of colonies,
remote locations, and close inter-and intra-species aggregation. While drones have been …

Monitoring of colonial waterbird nesting islands is essential to tracking waterbird population
trends, which are used for evaluating ecosystem health and informing conservation …