The first use of a photogrammetry drone to estimate population abundance and predict age structure of threatened Sumatran elephants

DA Rahman, R Herliansyah, B Subhan, D Hutasoit… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Wildlife monitoring in tropical rainforests poses additional challenges due to species often
being elusive, cryptic, faintly colored, and preferring concealable, or difficult to access …

Evaluation of drone surveys for ungulates in southwestern rangelands

J Blum, AM Foley, RW DeYoung… - Wildlife Society …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drone platforms are increasingly used for aerial wildlife surveys, but the validity of
population counts has not been fully evaluated in all environments. Aerial surveys generally …

Evaluating the Use of a Thermal Sensor to Detect Small Ground-Nesting Birds in Semi-Arid Environments during Winter

JS Avila-Sanchez, HL Perotto-Baldivieso, LD Massey… - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Aerial wildlife surveys with fixed-wing airplanes and helicopters are used more often than on-
the-ground field surveys to cover areas that are both extensive and often inaccessible …

Spatiotemporal Variations of Production–Living–Ecological Space under Various, Changing Climate and Land Use Scenarios in the Upper Reaches of Hanjiang …

P Wang, X Li, L Zhang, Z Wang, J Bai, Y Song, H Han… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Land is an important resource that supports the production, life, and ecological development
of human society. The current research on production–living–ecological space (PLES) is …

Advancing primate surveillance with image recognition techniques from unmanned aerial vehicles

G He, X Zhang, J Wang, P Xu, X Hou… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveys on thermostatic animals has gained
prominence due to their ability to provide practical and precise dynamic censuses …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Electronics: Advanced Charging Systems and Data Transmission Solutions

V Barrile, F La Foresta, E Genovese - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Interest in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been increasingly growing in recent years,
especially for purposes other than those for which they were initially used (civil and military …

Wildlife monitoring with drones: A survey of end users

RB Iglay, LR Jones, JA Elmore, KO Evans… - Wildlife Society …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advancements in technology often yield research inquiry into novel applications and
drone (ie, unoccupied aircraft systems or UAS) applications in wildlife management are no …

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Equipped with Thermal Cameras to Survey a Known Population of White-Tailed Deer

DG Pfeffer, JA Foster, JC Kinsey - Journal of Fish and …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
New technologies are emerging that may have potential for yielding more reliable
population estimates for white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus than traditional manned …

Vision-Based Autonomous Landing and Charging System for a Hexacopter Drone.

AIN Alshbatat, M Awawdeh - Journal Européen des …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
One of the challenges in Drone-based systems is the limited capacity of the onboard battery.
To overcome the limitation of the onboard battery capacity, an intelligent decision-making …

Data Security and Privacy Concerns in Drone Operations

SR Sindiramutty, NZ Jhanjhi, CE Tan… - … Issues and Challenges …, 2024 - igi-global.com
The widespread use of drones across various industries is leading to significant
transformations. However, the resulting concerns about data security and privacy are quite …