Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have been used widely in military applications,
but more recently civilian applications have emerged (eg, wildlife population monitoring …

Knowing how many individuals are in a wildlife population allows informed management
decisions to be made. Ecologists are increasingly using technologies, such as remotely …

Global biodiversity has been decreasing sharply over a wide array of taxa. This trend is
predicted to continue in the future if there is no reduction in anthropogenic activities such as …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in environmental research. Their
use has the potential to revolutionise the field if they prove capable of improving data quality …

There are many advantages to transitioning from conducting marine wildlife surveys via
human observers onboard light-aircraft, to capturing aerial imagery using drones. However …

Accurate detection of individual animals is integral to the management of vulnerable wildlife
species, but often difficult and costly to achieve for species that occur over wide or …

There is growing interest from research and conservation groups in the potential for using
small unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs;< 2 kg) to conduct wildlife surveys because they are …

Lightweight drones have emerged recently as a remote sensing survey tool of choice for
ecologists, conservation practitioners and environmental scientists. In published work, there …

Hierarchical N‐mixture models have been suggested for abundance estimation from
spatiotemporally replicated drone‐based count surveys, since they allow modeling …

Recent advances in drone technology have rapidly led to their use for monitoring and
managing wildlife populations but a broad and generalised framework for their application to …