Hi Dirk, 

Your case study is an interesting read, thanks for sharing. In terms of people exploring similar things, there are a few members who you could connect with about different elements of the project. Your project has a few different elements - are there specific things you're interested in hearing how others are handling?

As a start: 

• @Sol+Milne is working with Drones and Orangutans, but using them to map nests rather than track individual animals. Case study here, discussion about the project here. 
• There's a discussion in this group about aerial platforms for wildlife tracking that might be relevant, which @Albin , @YvanSG , @Rob+Appleby and @emjay are involved in. In a spinoff thread, @emjay has shared the details of WildFInd, a package that produces geo-referenced heatmaps for VHF collared animals - sounds like this could be relevant for your project as you're using VHF implants as well, right? He's invited feedback to help move that project forward, so might be worth checking it out to see if it's relevant and there is overlap between your work. 
• @Tomswinfield has been working with drones in Indonesia for the past few years to map forest recovery efforts (case study here - it's a bit dated but gives you an idea what he's exploring). 
• @meganossmann has been testing out FLIR’s new Duo Pro R thermal camera as a detection tool for loggerhead sea turtle nests (case study here, discussion here). 

This is by no means an exhaustive list of members working in this space, but it's a enough to point you in the direction of some of the recent work being shared here that seems to overlap with what you're working on. 

If you haven't already, I'd also recommend having a poke around our drones group as well as there might be some relevant discussions/projects that could be of interest. 

Steph 

Hi Dirk,

Sounds like an absolutely fascinating project and well done on all the progress you've made! If you aren't already aware of it, I think the Sensorgnome system people and you have some definite things to chat about. Sensorgnomes use Pis/Beaglebones and RTL-SDRs (or FUNcubes) and custom written software to automatically tracking beacons. The system is primarily used for ground stations, and there's a lot of emphasis on the small Lotek coded VHF tags, but conventional tags also work and there's a lot of interest in the community about drone tracking as you'd expect. Anyway, great stuff and welcome to WILDLABS!

Cheers,

Rob