The application of drone in ecological protection
Jun 22nd 2016
Due to the unique bird's-eye view, the drone can observe a wider range. The drone can offer you help no matter you are an agency selling real estate or you are a forest patrol.
In fact, drones, a cutting-edge technology, have been applied in ecological preservation areas, which would make the protection works easier. Let us see how it works.
In forest degeneration areas, the traditional plating method needs a large quantity of manual labors, which is time-wasting. In 2015, a new British company designed a drone, which can sow a special seed capsule into the soil. In practice, just like a bullet, the seed capsule would be shot and fixed into the soil. At the same time, the seed will rupture and can be exposed in the sunshine, then it will grow.
That drone can successfully sow ten seeds per minute, and it is estimated that a group of drone can sow 36,000 seeds for maximum every day.
However, the drone can be used before seeding. Scientists can take advantage of drones to make aerial photography towards the forest degeneration areas for the ground mapping. Moreover, the drone is able to supervise the illegal plant-cutting in the forest degeneration areas.
The biologists in ecological preservation areas are using radio to track the displacement distance of animals and their habitat scales and judge whether the animals have entered the prohibited areas (non-preservation areas or human activity areas).
But the radio is regarded as an out-of-date method and time-consuming, because scientists have to go to the regular activity areas of animals in person, track the radio signal on foot and make record. In contrast, the drone can fly following the radio signal and collect the data and image more quickly, so that the scientists can track more animals and acquire more data.
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