{"id":4686,"date":"2016-03-17T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:14:07","slug":"a-birds-eye-view-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-birds-eye-view-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A bird\u2019s eye view of birds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The view seen by humans (left) and drones (right) when trying to count seabird populations from either the ground or the air. (Image credits: Jarrod Hodgson)<\/pre>\n
A new study compares the accuracy of monitoring of sea bird colonies by UAVs and traditional human ground counts and demonstrates that population estimates can be improved with this technology.<\/p>\n
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are being increasingly used for environmental monitoring. They are cost-effective and can survey difficult to access areas.<\/p>\n
Researchers used drones to count the size of the colonies for three types of seabirds: frigates, terns, and penguins while researchers counted the same colonies on the ground.<\/p>\n
The authors also developed a new analytical model that could enable researchers to transition their historical data to the more precise data for more effective wildlife monitoring. \u00a0
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Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0Scientific Reports\u00a0<\/em>on March 17<\/strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Jarrod Hodgson, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The view seen by humans (left) and drones (right) when trying to count seabird populations from either the ground or the air. (Image credits: Jarrod Hodgson) A new study compares the accuracy of monitoring of sea bird colonies by UAVs and traditional human ground counts and demonstrates that population estimates can be improved with this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,113,114,1445,2038,1011],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-birds","tag-conservation","tag-drones","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/5-Jarrod-Hodgson-terns-ground-view-1024x680.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}