Evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicle shape, flight path and camera type for waterfowl surveys: disturbance effects and species recognition

Dawn of Drone Ecology: Low-Cost Autonomous Aerial Vehicles for Conservation

(2016) Lian Pin Koh et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Approaching birds with drones: first experiments and ethical guidelines

(2015) E. Vas et al.   Biology Letters

Bears Show a Physiological but Limited Behavioral Response to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

(2015) Mark A. Ditmer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Free as a drone: ecologists can add UAVs to their toolbox

(2015) Blake M Allan et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Low-budget ready-to-fly unmanned aerial vehicles: an effective tool for evaluating the nesting status of canopy-breeding bird species

(2015) M. H. Weissensteiner et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

A small unmanned aerial system for estimating abundance and size of Antarctic predators

(2015) Michael E. Goebel et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Proximate cues to phases of movement in a highly dispersive waterfowl, Anas superciliosa

(2015) John F. McEvoy et al.   Movement Ecology

Spotting East African Mammals in Open Savannah from Space

(2015) Zheng Yang et al.   PLoS One

Population Census of a Large Common Tern Colony with a Small Unmanned Aircraft

(2015) Dominique Chabot et al.   PLoS One

A Semi-Automated Single Day Image Differencing Technique to Identify Animals in Aerial Imagery

(2014) Pat Terletzky et al.   PLoS One

American Exceptionalism: Population Trends and Flight Initiation Distances in Birds from Three Continents

(2014) Anders Pape Møller et al.   PLoS One

Introduction and Testing of a Monitoring and Colony-Mapping Method for Waterbird Populations That Uses High-Speed and Ultra-Detailed Aerial Remote Sensing

(2014) Gábor Bakó et al.   SENSORS

Measuring Habitat Quality for Least Bitterns in a Created Wetland with Use of a Small Unmanned Aircraft

(2014) Dominique Chabot et al.   WETLANDS

Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

(2013) Karen Anderson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Unmanned Aerial Survey of Elephants

(2013) Cédric Vermeulen et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) Amanda Hodgson et al.   PLoS One

Buses, Cars, Bicycles and Walkers: The Influence of the Type of Human Transport on the Flight Responses of Waterbirds

(2013) Emily M. McLeod et al.   PLoS One

In search of greener pastures: Using satellite images to predict the effects of environmental change on zebra migration

(2013) Hattie L. A. Bartlam-Brooks et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

What can a database compiled over 22 years tell us about the use of different types of wetlands by waterfowl in south-eastern Australian summers?

(2012) Christopher G. Murray et al.   EMU

A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds

(2012) M. A. Weston et al.   EMU

Evaluation of an off-the-shelf Unmanned Aircraft System for Surveying Flocks of Geese

(2012) Dominique Chabot et al.   WATERBIRDS

An automatic counter for aerial images of aggregations of large birds

(2011) Stig Descamps et al.   BIRD STUDY

How landscape dynamics link individual- to population-level movement patterns: a multispecies comparison of ungulate relocation data

(2011) Thomas Mueller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fine-scale bird monitoring from light unmanned aircraft systems

(2011) FRANCESC SARDÀ-PALOMERA et al.   IBIS

Using object-based analysis of image data to count birds: mapping of Lesser Flamingos at Kamfers Dam, Northern Cape, South Africa

(2011) Geoff Groom et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

The hawk/goose story: The classical ethological experiments of Lorenz and Tinbergen, revisited.

(2011) Wolfgang Schleidt et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high-resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles

(2011) Stephan Getzin et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Thermal and Narrowband Multispectral Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

(2009) J. Berni et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Impacts of disturbance on migratory waterfowl

(2008) JESPER MADSEN   IBIS

Grazing Impacts in Vegetated Dune Fields: Predictions From Spatial Pattern Analysis

(2008) Paula D. Blanco et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Some human, aircraft and animal factors affecting aerial surveys: how to enumerate animals from the air

(2008) Peter J. S. Fleming et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH