Unmanned Vehicles
For tools, see Drones
- precision monitoring
- monitoring in inaccessible areas
- reduced costs
- reduction in human disturbance during monitoring
- survey duration
- mission safety
- repeatability
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones)
Wildlife monitoring, Western Australia, fixed wing
Weissensteiner, Matthias H., Jelmer W. Poelstra, and Jochen B. W. Wolf. ‘Low-Budget Ready-to-Fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Effective Tool for Evaluating the Nesting Status of Canopy-Breeding Bird Species’. Journal of Avian Biology 46, no. 4 (2015): 425–30. https://doi.org/10/f3n26r.
Jiménez López, Jesús, and Margarita Mulero-Pázmány. ‘Drones for Conservation in Protected Areas: Present and Future’. Drones 3, no. 1 (2019): 10. https://doi.org/10/gfw6hb.
Hodgson, Jarrod C., Shane M. Baylis, Rowan Mott, Ashley Herrod, and Rohan H. Clarke. ‘Precision Wildlife Monitoring Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’. Scientific Reports 6, no. 1 (2016): 22574. https://doi.org/10/f8ds9v.
Nowak, Maciej M., Katarzyna Dziob, and Pawel Bogawski. ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Environmental Biology: A Review’. European Journal of Ecology 4, no. 2 (2018): 56–74. https://doi.org/10/ggshsw.
Spatial Ecology and Habitat Characteristics
Christie, Katherine S., Sophie L. Gilbert, Casey L. Brown, Michael Hatfield, and Leanne Hanson. ‘Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Wildlife Research: Current and Future Applications of a Transformative Technology’. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14, no. 5 (2016): 241–51. https://doi.org/10/f8r9jk.
Marine
Verfuss, Ursula K., Ana Sofia Aniceto, Danielle V. Harris, Douglas Gillespie, Sophie Fielding, Guillermo Jiménez, Phil Johnston, et al. ‘A Review of Unmanned Vehicles for the Detection and Monitoring of Marine Fauna’. Marine Pollution Bulletin 140 (2019): 17–29. https://doi.org/10/ggt53t.
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