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Wildlife Monitoring

Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand : Operation Pateke

The first airborne radio detection system on a UAS in New Zealand. Designed by X-craft, this system is specifically built to operate in high risk, difficult terrain conditions for the task of tracking wildlife with transponders. To our knowledge this system, at the time of first launch, is unique in the world as the pilot has the ability to track across multiple frequencies, identifying multiple individual  targets during a single flight and remotely controlling a range of parameters on the airborne system in real-time. Any tagged wildlife can be tracked, from birds, animals to surface dwelling marine life.
We are also doing a series of Infra-red, optical and computer vision experiments for the tracking and identification of wildlife. Below are some early trials of this where we carried out a search for rabbits. The aim is to see what characteristics identify them as distinct from other wildlife such as rats, cats, ferrets and birds. 
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