Journal
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
Volume 200, Issue -, Pages 341-351Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.026
Keywords
Animal conservation; Wildlife monitoring; Object detection; Active learning; Crowd-sourcing data; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Very high resolution
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PZ00P2-136827]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P2_136827] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer new opportunities for wildlife monitoring, with several advantages over traditional field-based methods. They have readily been used to count birds, marine mammals and large herbivores in different environments, tasks which are routinely performed through manual counting in large collections of images. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic system able to detect large mammals in semi-arid Savanna. It relies on an animal -detection system based on machine learning, trained with crowd-sourced annotations provided by volunteers who manually interpreted sub-decimeter resolution color images. The system achieves a high recall rate and a human operator can then eliminate false detections with limited effort. Our system provides good perspectives for the development of data-driven management practices in wildlife conservation. It shows that the detection of large mammals in semi-arid Savanna can be approached by processing data provided by standard RGB cameras mounted on affordable fixed wings UAVs.
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