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The Dugong, a Huggable, Seagrass-Loving Sea Cow, Has a New Best Friend: Drones ... Sweden, used off-the-shelf aerial drones to look not for dugongs themselves but for the distinctive feeding ...
Jul 18, 2018 · He found the drone could rapidly survey a 50km 2 area, flying higher than the standard small multirotor drones they also tested. The images collected could then be quickly processed on board the research vessel, by both manually reviewing the images and using a ‘dugong detector’, which is an automated detection algorithm under development.
Nov 11, 2018 · Frederic designed the ‘Dugong Detector’ – a computer algorithm that uses a type of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning to find the dugongs in the drone images automatically. The Dugong Detector shows the potential dugongs as small thumbnail images, which we then verify by marking the correct ones.
Sep 26, 2018 · Drones free researchers from the need to find, fund and fly a small plane. “Drones really open new opportunities,” Christophe says. “Using a drone, you can pinpoint the location of a dugong very precisely, down to tens of metres.” Amanda agrees: “Previously, we didn’t have any way of monitoring a really small location.
Nov 13, 2018 · But, apart from being an endangered species worthy of watching in their own right, dugongs are also a very useful indicator of the health of their local marine habitat; and Amanda Hodgson, at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, has just won a $250,000 Google Impact Challenge award for her work using drones and artificial intelligence to count dugongs all over the world.
May 31, 2018 · For the last decade, Dr Amanda Hodgson has been using a high end military drone, called the ScanEagle, to generate aerial images in trial surveys of the Shark Bay region in Western Australia – one of the areas where the critically endangered dugong, or sea cow, can be found.
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Aug 14, 2020 · Image caption: Dugong mother and calf photographed by research drone. On average, a three-week research trip can involve 90 aerial survey flights and generate approximately 25,000 images. This comprehensive level of detail is difficult to achieve by other means.
