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Precious wildlife Illegal poaching Himalayan foothills Park protection Himalayan foothills Drone training Footage from a conservation drone Drone image: rhinos What is a conservation drone? + + Model aircraft Autopilot Payload

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Himalayan foothills Precious wildlife Illegal poaching

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Park protection Himalayan foothills

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Footage from a ‘conservation drone’ Drone training Drone image: rhinos

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What is a conservation drone?

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Model aircraft Autopilot Payload Software

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Conservation Drone!

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How do I fly a conservation drone?

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Actually you don’t... it flies itself!

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Quick look River survey Map an area Patrol forest boundary

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What can I do with a conservation drone?

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Orangutan nests

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Forest buffaloes Turtle nest Wild orangutan

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Monitoring health of habitats

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Agricultural expansion

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Recent deforestation

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Mosaic of multiple drone images

1000 m

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Near Infra Red images NDVI information

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Where are conservation drones?

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Gabon Kenya Tanzania Rep Congo Madagascar USA Germany Switzerland India Indonesia Malaysia Cambodia Nepal Greenland Scotland Chile Belize

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Prototype: Bixler Raptor drone Skywalker drone Maja drone Finwing drone

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Radio collars Camera traps

VHF

Ongoing developments... Spy mics

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Conservation Drones MAJA Model Weight: ~2.0 kg (inc. batteries) Payload: ~1.0 kg Automatic Take-off: Hand launched Autonomous Flight: Guided by GPS Automatic Landing: Within 100 x 100 m field Battery Life: ~40-60 minutes Range: ~30-50 km Sensors: Photo, video, thermal imaging cameras Telemetry: ‘Live’ transmission of flight data and video Wingspan: 1.8 m Photo Quality: ~1 – 10 cm per pixel resolution

SPECS

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