Counting wildlife with aerial imagery from drones
Crowdsouring the counting of wildlife with Aerial Clicker. Look for Rhino’s, Elephants, Giraffes etc with high resolution aerial imagery taken from drones.
“As part of their wildlife protection efforts, rangers at Kuzikus want to know how many animals (and what kinds) are roaming about their wildlife reserve. So Kuzikus partnered with Drone Adventures and EPFL’s Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) and the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG) to launch the SAVMAP project, which stands for “Near real-time ultrahigh-resolution imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles for sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation in semi-arid savanna under regional and global change.”
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Source: http://micromappers.org/