Drones and artificial intelligence image processing improving the ‘koality’ of wildlife monitoring

Mongabay
Mar 16, 2017, 2:15 pm171 pts
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increasingly been used to monitor wildlife populations from above, but artificial intelligence has taken drone technology one step further. Koala populations are declining across their range in Australia due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Researchers at…

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