Can drones count gulls? Minimal disturbance and semiautomated image processing with an unmanned aerial vehicle for colony-nesting seabirds

Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans

(2018) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using super-high resolution satellite imagery to census threatened albatrosses

(2017) Peter T. Fretwell et al.   IBIS

Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses

(2017) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census

(2017) Émile Brisson-Curadeau et al.   Scientific Reports

Unmanned aircraft systems as a new source of disturbance for wildlife: A systematic review

(2017) Margarita Mulero-Pázmány et al.   PLoS One

Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field research

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Changing Numbers of Three Gull Species in the British Isles

(2016) Ruedi G. Nager et al.   WATERBIRDS

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

(2016) John F. McEvoy et al.   PeerJ

Precision wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   Scientific Reports

Approaching birds with drones: first experiments and ethical guidelines

(2015) E. Vas et al.   Biology Letters

The accuracy of urban nesting gull censuses

(2015) J.C. Coulson et al.   BIRD STUDY

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

(2015) Dominique Chabot et al.   PLoS One

Mobile 3D mapping for surveying earthwork projects using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system

(2014) Sebastian Siebert et al.   AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION

Quantifying submerged fluvial topography using hyperspatial resolution UAS imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry

(2014) A. S. Woodget et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Emperor Penguins Breeding on Iceshelves

(2014) Peter T. Fretwell et al.   PLoS One

Human recreation alters behaviour profiles of non-breeding birds on open-coast sandy shores

(2013) Thomas A. Schlacher et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

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

Topographic structure from motion: a new development in photogrammetric measurement

(2012) Mark A. Fonstad et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

An Emperor Penguin Population Estimate: The First Global, Synoptic Survey of a Species from Space

(2012) Peter T. Fretwell et al.   PLoS One

Fine-scale bird monitoring from light unmanned aircraft systems

(2011) FRANCESC SARDÀ-PALOMERA et al.   IBIS