Tag Archives: Environment and Conservation
Can flying drones save whales trapped in fishing gear?
From mapping coral to delivering medical supplies, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are proving to be good for all sorts of tricky tasks. Now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has teamed up with a California-based nonprofit to see … Continue reading
UAV Helps Facilitate Prosecution of Illegal Moose Poacher
Drone solutions company Draganfly Innovations and Saskatchewan Polytechnic succesfully used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to help with a prosecution following a conservation-related crime. In April 2017, Draganfly Innovations and Sask Polytech received an Engage Grant from the Natural Sciences … Continue reading
Texas A&M Researchers Using UAVs to ‘Read the Weeds’
Texas A&M AgriLife Research is deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of a project to determine the right tools for early identification and control of weeds. Dr. Muthu Bagavathiannan, an AgriLife Research weed scientist at Texas A&M’s College Station, … Continue reading
Drones Make New Caribou Discoveries
A study recently used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect overhead footage of migrating caribou and discover “enormous variation” in the herd. In the darkening weeks of late fall, Dolphin-Union caribou herds cross the stretches of frozen ice seasonally connecting … Continue reading
