- Title
- Trialling a real-time drone detection and validation protocol for the koala (phascolarctos cinereus)
- Creator
- Beranek, Chad T.; Roff, Adam; Denholm, Bob; Howell, Lachlan G.; Witt, Ryan R.
- Relation
- Australian Mammalogy Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 260-260
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am20043
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS), or drone, technology has emerged as a promising survey method for the cryptic koala. We demonstrate an in-field protocol for wild koala RPAS surveys which provides real-time validation of thermal signatures. During 15 trial flights using a quadcopter drone (DJI Matrice 200 v2) we successfully detected and validated koala thermal signatures (n = 12) using two in-field approaches: validation by on-ground observer (n = 10) and validation using 4K footage captured and reviewed directly after the survey (n = 2). We also provide detectability considerations relative to survey time, temperature, wildlife–RPAS interactions and detection of non-target species, which can be used to further inform RPAS survey protocols.
- Subject
- drone; koala; monitoring; protocol; rpas; thermal signature validation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449203
- Identifier
- uon:43602
- Identifier
- ISSN:0310-0049
- Language
- eng
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