Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

Remote sensing in conservation and ecological research

World Congress on GIS & Remote Sensing

August 01-03, 2016 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Barbara Bollard Breen

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Remote Sensing & GIS

Abstract:

The Auckland University of Technology unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research team are leaders in the application of UAV technology and remote sensing in conservation and ecological research. The team works in partnership with industry to customize and develop unmanned systems for use in New Zealand and extreme environments such as Antarctica, desert systems and offshore islands. Low flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) offer ecologists new opportunities to collect and scale appropriate data at high spatial and temporal resolution. The presentation will showcase the use of UAVs in spatial ecology and demonstrate existing post processing tools for UAV imagery. The talk will explore opportunities for use of computer vision techniques for analysis of high resolution video imagery in a variety of environments and ecological studies.

Biography :

Email: barbara.breen@aut.ac.nz