With drones hovering above the whales as they pass by during their epic migration, scientists in the state of California are able not only to count, but also to estimate the size of the mega mammals.

When It Comes to Counting Wildlife, Drones Are More Accurate Than People Technology could be a conservation gamechanger, but we need to interrogate its impact on wildlife ...

Counting dugongs in the ocean can be a pretty difficult task. That's why Australian marine mammal researcher Dr. Amanda Hodgson, from Murdoch University in Western Australia, is trying to see if ...

Gather AI’s software enables drones to fly autonomously through warehouses with no GPS or Wi-Fi — even at night — to photograph inventory stored in pallet locations. The AI interprets bar codes, text ...

Searching where salmon lay eggs is getting a boost from some eyes in the sky. Researchers are testing drones to survey for salmon nests.

Ecologists are already using drones to keep tabs on animal populations, tracking whales in the Pacific and counting orangutans in Nepal, but no one is really sure if drone-based counts are more ...

A University of Adelaide study showed that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting approaches. Jarrod Hodgson, from the university's Environment Institute and ...

But, until now, the accuracy of using drones to count wildlife was unclear," says the study's lead author, Jarrod Hodgson from the University's Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences.