{"id":103989,"date":"2020-11-03T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/drones-that-patrol-forests-could-monitor-environmental-and-ecological-changes\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:53:28","slug":"drones-that-patrol-forests-could-monitor-environmental-and-ecological-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/drones-that-patrol-forests-could-monitor-environmental-and-ecological-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"#Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests.<\/p>\n

Sensors for forest monitoring are already used to track changes in temperature, humidity and light, as well as the movements of animals and insects through their habitat. They also help to detect and monitor forest fires and can provide valuable data on how climate change and other human activities are impacting the natural world.<\/p>\n

However, placing these sensors can prove difficult in large, tall forests, and climbing trees to place them poses its own risks.<\/p>\n

Now, researchers at Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Lab have developed drones that can shoot sensor-containing darts onto trees several meters away in cluttered environments like forests. The drones can also place sensors through contact or by perching on tree branches.<\/p>\n

The researchers hope the drones will be used in future to create networks of sensors to boost data on forest ecosystems, and to track hard-to-navigate biomes like the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n

Lead researcher Professor Mirko Kovac, Director of the Aerial Robotics Lab from the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial said: “Monitoring forest ecosystems can be difficult, but our drones could deploy whole networks of sensors to boost the amount and precision of environmental and ecological data. I like to think of them as artificial forest inhabitants who will soon watch over the ecosystem and provide the data we need to protect the environment.”<\/p>\n


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