Forest Wildlife Monitoring by Drones
Industrial
Drones monitoring wildlife – human conflict areas.
Wildlife & Forest Conservation
On a flight journey, happen to meet Mr. Pillai, a native of Kerala lives in Liwonde, Malawi. That lead us to discussion of poaching, trespassing and hunting of animals as well as animals crossing over to human settlements and make damages / create scare.
Field Details
Area Size
1 sq. km / 250+ acres
Challenge Given
Human-Animal Conflict Area Identifying
Location
Liwonde, Malawi
Turn Around
Traditional methods requires constant monitoring, where drones can do the job On-Demand
Project Details
Work type
Wildlife Movement & Human Activity Monitoring
Ground Crew
3 Member – Sameer, Jacob, Vasant
Duration
DEMO for 3 days
Equipment Arsenal
Visual Sensor setup + Thermal Setup with 1 Multi rotor drone.
Eye in the sky in wildlife
We set up a demo to ascertain what can be done using the technology we have. It was a demo flight over 1 square km of Liwonde’s park where we could able to monitor an elephant is heading towards nearby village. Sr. Officer Von Elgg decided to try it over next 7 days to see what all can be covered & monitored.
Effective Wildlife Monitoring
Surveying boundaries of national park, making map of boundary & villages across, Monitoring some of the most important movements of wilds vs humans made all of the officials convinced the technology & tool is fentastically helping them & making them manage huge park keeping an eye in the sky.
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