Hi Garin, 

Try Altitude Tracking https://altitudeconservation.com/

There stuff is way better than Wildlife Drones for tracking multiple VHF transmitters.  Speak with Dr. Chris Muller about their system.

Good luck,

Chris

Vectronic Aerospace

www.vectronic-aerospace.com

Not the same equipment, but at work I have used Metashape with DJI drones with an IR sensor (Mavic 3 Thermal, Matrice 3DT, Matrice 4T, etc) and the workflow to create IR maps relies on metashape fromt TIFFs created using the DJI thermal SDK. There are a lot of considerations that will affect the final quality of the output: 

• Flight speed should be low to avoid motion blur, the IR sensors are quite sensitive to that.
• high overlap is required for more homogenous ground features
• the processing settings in metashape play a key role - to avoid the "fishbowl" effect etc.
• Flight altitudes need to be consistent to avoid calibration issues.

I think it is worth giving it a shot in Metashape. From my experience, metashape tends to error out much less frequently. I reckon the forest scene might be the biggest challenge for you - given the low number of tie points etc. What are your flight settings ? 
 

How good is that drone ?

I'm not involved with this, but I just learned about Sea Shepherd today and their project to fight illegal octopus trapping. Sorry I can't help with an intro, but it would be a very cool story to share if you can get in touch! 



 

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Amazing!

Found your instagram page and have been scrolling all morning ( most educative doomscrolling I've done so far😂). Love it, am seeing sea creatures I've never seen.

Wonderful work! Would you be interested in documenting a story about afforestation from the Pacific Ocean to the Himalayas (Indus River focus)? 

I’m interested in doing an expedition documentary bridging mythology and conservation with a YouTuber to help bring awareness towards forest conservation all along the river. The focus is water and water wildlife.

Congratulations David. Looking forward to attending the inaugural meeting :)

Akiba

Interesting.

How are current drone pilots in the Mara handling biometric authorization for flight logs to ensure data integrity?

Hi @DavidGlobalDroneForum , I have attended ICTC and tried to be in the drone-related sessions as much as possible. I'm am not based in Africa but very much would like to better understand how drones are being used there as the organisation I work for are keen to increase the use of drones in that area. Would be happy to contribute in some way with reflections depending on timeline. Unfortunately I won't attend the conference in Kenya in person. I have also signed up to the Drone WG so was hoping to share something then too!

Hi Macayle! My assumption is that this is an in-person only event...yes? If there is an option to join remotely or listen in, please do follow up and share with our Community! I would personally love to attend, and I am sure many others would as well! And if there may be any content that is publicized post the event, please do share that as well. :) Sounds like a fantastic initiative -- thank you for sharing! Cheers!

Thank you for sharing. Would love to learn bit more about the data workflow. 

Last year I tired to using QGIS and few existing models to count the birds from orthomosaics of wadding birds in Cambodia but gave after dismal results. 

Great papers, thanks for sharing! 
We’ve been using drones to detect color-tagged crabs in saltmarshes, which allowed us to achieve a 60% recapture rate—something that was impossible with traditional trap or sampling methods.

By comparing orthomosaics captured at consecutive time intervals, we managed to re-detect individuals and quantify their movement for the first time. However, our detection process was done manually by eye.

I’m now looking into automated detection. Do you know of any existing tools that could be adapted for tracking color-coded targets across sequential maps, or would you recommend developing an ad hoc solution?

Best,
Nahuel

Hello Macayle

It is of great pleasure that there is this opportunity coming to East Africa. I would like to attend this. Do you have any recommendation for funding  a student to attend such a forum? I will share this opportunity with our East Africa WhatsApp group too.