The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Marine Mammal Research

Automating Marine Mammal Detection in Aerial Images Captured During Wildlife Surveys: A Deep Learning Approach

Aerial surveys conducted using manned or unmanned aircraft with customized camera payloads can generate a large number of images. Manual review of these images to extract data is prohibitive in terms of time and financial resources, thus providing strong incentive to automate this process using computer vision systems. There are potential applications for these automated systems in areas such a...

A Review on Marine Search and Rescue Operations Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

There have been rigorous research and dev elopment of unmanned aerial vehicles in the field of search and rescue (SAR) operation recently. UAVs reduce unnecessary human risks while assisting rescue efforts through aerial imagery, topographic mapping and emergency delivery. The app lication of UAVs in offshore and nearshore marine SAR missions is discussed in this paper. Projects that integrate ...

Review of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for Marine Surveys

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Surveying Marine Fauna: A Dugong Case Study

Aerial surveys of marine mammals are routinely conducted to assess and monitor species' habitat use and population status. In Australia, dugongs (Dugong dugon) are regularly surveyed and long-term datasets have formed the basis for defining habitat of high conservation value and risk assessments of human impacts. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate more accurate, human-risk free, and...

Noise Levels of Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Implications for Potential Underwater Impacts on Marine Mammals

Despite the rapid increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in marine mammal research, knowledge of the effects of UAVs on study animals is very limited. We recorded the in-air and in-water noise from two commonly used multi-rotor UAVs, the SwellPro Splashdrone and the DJI Inspire 1 Pro, to assess the potential for negative noise effects of UAV use. The Splashdrone and Inspire UAVs...