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A Story About Madagascar From Aboard A Drone
This is a 15-minute short film about Zuzana’s journey across parts of Madagascar with a drone, shining a spotlight on environmental and livelihood issues on the red island. It is a fascinating and...
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Know thy ‘enemy’: Oil Palm Landscape Mapped by Drone
Keeyen (our Asia team member) used his Skywalker 1900 equipped with an APM 2 and Canon S100 to map an oil palm estate owned by a friend. Keeyen’s Skywalker was able to track the waypoints extremely...
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Princeton Tiger Drone!
Lian Pin has just moved to New Jersey to begin his year-long sabbatical at Princeton University, his alma mater. He has just finished building the first Conservation Drone in America, which is called...
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Tiger Drone Test Flight Video
Airframe: Finwing Universeye Penguin Autopilot: APM 2.5+ with Power module GPS: 3DR LEA 6 Telemetry: 3DR 915 Mhz Motor: Finwing stock M2220 1350kv Propeller: Master Airscrew 3-bladed 9 x 7 Pusher ESC:...
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3D Model of Oil Palm Landscape created with Drone Imagery
3D model and fly-through created by Serge Wich using PIX4D and ESRI 3D ArcScene. Drone Imagery from Keeyen Pang. This is a 3D model animation of an oil palm mosaic in Sabah. A subset of the aerial...
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Droning in Cambodia: Training Birdlife, ELIE, CI & WCS
Simon Wunderli from ResearchDrones and Serge Wich from ConservationDrones were in Cambodia in April 2013 for BirdLife, Elephants Livelihood Environment Initiative (ELIE), Conservation International...
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Conservation Drones in Scotland
ResearchDrones and ConservationDrones recently went to the amazingly beautiful Caerlaverock wetland area in Scotland. We were helping the Scottish Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust explore the potential of...
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Drone flight over orangutan re-introduction site in Jantho, Aceh
*Unedited raw video footage Drone operator: Graham Usher from Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme Drone: Raptor with APM Read about the efforts of the SOCP at re-introducing orangutans:...
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Drone footage of fire aftermath in peatlands of Tripa, Sumatra, Indonesia
*Unedited raw video footage This video was from a short drone flight last year (2012) in the peatlands of Tripa. It shows burnt areas cleared for new oil palm plantations. This drone mission was...
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Eye in the sky quadcopter drone in Aras Napal, Sumatra, Indonesia
*Unedited raw video footage See: http://ConservationDrones.org
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Marine Conservation Drones
ConservationDrones.org went to Glover’s Reef in Belize upon the invitation of the Belize Fisheries Department and Wildlife Conservation Society. We explored the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for...
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High Altitude Flight Test
ConservationDrones.org tested the vertical limit of the Techpod in open ocean and 30-40 km per hour wind conditions. We were aiming to reach 1 km above sea level. But the motor gave up at 700 m, from...
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Conservation Drones used in fight against destruction of elephant habitats in...
Fast forward to 5:50 for part on drone use.
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DEVELOPING A NEW CONSERVATION DRONE
ConservationDrones.org recently received a small grant from WWF to develop a rugged drone for use in difficult terrain and landing conditions. This is just a teaser of one of the airframes in testing…...
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Research assistant for drone ecology research in Panama
Immediate opening at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) for an intern / fellow / research assistant to collect high-resolution aerial photos with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)....
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Girls and their drones
Simon Wunderlin, the Technical Director of ConservationDrones.org, has been testing several new airframes for the next generation of our drones. This work is funded by WWF Netherlands/International. We...
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Conservation Drones over Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Lian Pin Koh (ConservationDrones.org) and Brenden Duffy (FlightRiot.com) went on a trip to Barro Colorado Island, Panama, upon the invitation of Dr. Helene Muller-Landau from the Smithsonian Tropical...
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Drone Crash!
People often ask how often we crash our drones. It really isn’t that often nowadays. But when it happens, a crash is caused by human error 99% of the time. During our trip… Read More →
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New Anti-Poaching Video Surveillance Drones for Nepal
ConservationDrones.org has been working closely with WWF Nepal for the past year or so, supported by the WWF AREAS Programme. One of our long-term goals is to reduce training time for new drone… Read...
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