поиск помеченных радиопередатчиками животных с дронов
Технология существует в тестовом режиме, но активно применяемых образцов пока нет.
Возможно, мы станем первыми, запрос на такую технологию есть, и немалый.
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/juvs-2015-0021?src=recsys&#.VzrUk_l97IU
Wildlife research and management methods in the 21st century: Where do unmanned aircraft fit in?
Dominique Chabot, David M. Bird
Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 2015, 3(4): 137-155, 10.1139/juvs-2015-0021
"Tremendous resources, time, and effort are expended worldwide to capture and equip wild animals with various electronic tracking and logging devices, and subsequently monitor the status, movements, and activities of these animals. Conventional methods of tracking or relocating the animals and retrieving data from their loggers range from the use of satellites, aircraft, automobiles, and mobile phone networks to telemetry tracking on foot or physically recapturing subjects (Thomas et al. 2011).
It is not surprising, then, that the emergence of small autonomously piloted unmanned aircraft has spawned interest in the idea of automated wildlife telemetry tracking by UAS. The concept is the following: a small UAS equipped with an autopilot system, telemetry receiving antennas, and an additional computer system capable of triangulating radio signals is launched above a general area containing one or more radio-tagged animals, and flies a preprogrammed systematic search pattern until it picks up a radio signal. The triangulation system then begins computing the origin of the signal, which it translates into continuously updating navigational commands fed into the autopilot until the UAS reaches the animal. It may then simply record the subject's location, or perhaps collect imagery of the animal and its surroundings, or even download data from the animal's logger, before returning to land or seeking out additional animals. Such a solution could be revolutionary, in particular for species that are too small to bear satellite-based tracking devices, or spend much of their time under the canopy or in burrows where satellite signals are obstructed.
Although the idea is compelling, it has yet to move beyond the theoretical and simulation stage. Initial work focused on developing the technique's conceptual and mathematical framework, along with computer simulations and limited ground-based testing without animals (Posch and Sukkarieh 2009;Soriano et al. 2009; Korner et al. 2010). Other efforts have focused specifically on the case of tracking radio-tagged fish (Jensen and Chen 2013; Leonardo et al. 2013; Jensen et al. 2014), including mathematical modeling, computer simulations, the design of a UAS-borne telemetry tracking payload and live flight tests (without real animals). Cliff et al. (2015) most recently demonstrated real-time autonomous localization of radio-tagged noisy miners (Manorina melanocephala) at short range by a multirotor UAS. It should be noted that beyond technological challenges, a potential major impediment to UAS-based wildlife telemetry tracking is the regulation of airspace: presumably the technique would routinely require flying the UAS beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of ground operators, a practice that is currently heavily regulated in most developed countries."
Статья в свободном доступе.
Возможно, мы станем первыми, запрос на такую технологию есть, и немалый.
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/juvs-2015-0021?src=recsys&#.VzrUk_l97IU
Wildlife research and management methods in the 21st century: Where do unmanned aircraft fit in?
Dominique Chabot, David M. Bird
Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 2015, 3(4): 137-155, 10.1139/juvs-2015-0021
"Tremendous resources, time, and effort are expended worldwide to capture and equip wild animals with various electronic tracking and logging devices, and subsequently monitor the status, movements, and activities of these animals. Conventional methods of tracking or relocating the animals and retrieving data from their loggers range from the use of satellites, aircraft, automobiles, and mobile phone networks to telemetry tracking on foot or physically recapturing subjects (Thomas et al. 2011).
It is not surprising, then, that the emergence of small autonomously piloted unmanned aircraft has spawned interest in the idea of automated wildlife telemetry tracking by UAS. The concept is the following: a small UAS equipped with an autopilot system, telemetry receiving antennas, and an additional computer system capable of triangulating radio signals is launched above a general area containing one or more radio-tagged animals, and flies a preprogrammed systematic search pattern until it picks up a radio signal. The triangulation system then begins computing the origin of the signal, which it translates into continuously updating navigational commands fed into the autopilot until the UAS reaches the animal. It may then simply record the subject's location, or perhaps collect imagery of the animal and its surroundings, or even download data from the animal's logger, before returning to land or seeking out additional animals. Such a solution could be revolutionary, in particular for species that are too small to bear satellite-based tracking devices, or spend much of their time under the canopy or in burrows where satellite signals are obstructed.
Although the idea is compelling, it has yet to move beyond the theoretical and simulation stage. Initial work focused on developing the technique's conceptual and mathematical framework, along with computer simulations and limited ground-based testing without animals (Posch and Sukkarieh 2009;Soriano et al. 2009; Korner et al. 2010). Other efforts have focused specifically on the case of tracking radio-tagged fish (Jensen and Chen 2013; Leonardo et al. 2013; Jensen et al. 2014), including mathematical modeling, computer simulations, the design of a UAS-borne telemetry tracking payload and live flight tests (without real animals). Cliff et al. (2015) most recently demonstrated real-time autonomous localization of radio-tagged noisy miners (Manorina melanocephala) at short range by a multirotor UAS. It should be noted that beyond technological challenges, a potential major impediment to UAS-based wildlife telemetry tracking is the regulation of airspace: presumably the technique would routinely require flying the UAS beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of ground operators, a practice that is currently heavily regulated in most developed countries."
Статья в свободном доступе.