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Entries for September 2017

Flying high for wildlife conservation

(September 07, 2017) Amazon wants to use them to deliver you packages, but for a wildlife conservation organization, drones (also called Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - UAVs) are a great new tool for getting a better picture of some pretty remote places. In the past, if we wanted to get a sense of the habitat found over a large area, we might have used satellite imagery. We still do use such imagery, but satellites have some limitations. For example, a satellite may only pass over an area once every two ...

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