The implementation of unmanned aerial data ferrying platforms provides secure low-cost wireless communication with sensors in remote locations with applications to plant and animal trafficking, illegal logging, and poaching. However, existing solutions are expensive with respect to the required aircraft, custom sensing modules and time necessary for deployment of manual missions to retrieve data. This paper presents the integration of two existing low-cost aerial and acoustic sensing platforms for data ferrying developed at Virginia Tech; a flying wing design (Ecosoar) and an intelligent Acoustic Autonomous Unattended Sensor (AAUS). We define this integration in six objectives: 1) discussion of the developed platforms, 2) discussion of current communication methods, 3) implementation of a communication portal for data transfer, 4) experimentation of data ferrying pipeline and 6) an illustration of a future framework for a forest conservation monitoring system.
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