UAVs and infrared cameras image wildlife behavior

摘要

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and thermal cameras are being increasingly used by researchers for both wildlife detection and censusing. To detect sea turtle nests on a Florida beach, for example, Eric Becker of the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF; Woking, Surrey, UK; www.wwf.org.uk) has used a Duo Pro R thermal imaging camera from FUR (Wilsonville, OR, USA; www.flir.com) that combines a 336 x 256 microbolome-ter-based thermal image detector and a 4k color camera in conjunction with a Phan-tom 2 quadcopter drone from DJI (Shenzhen, China; www.dji.com).