ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
An experimental approach to evaluate the potential of drones in terrestrial mammal research: a gregarious ungulate as a study model.
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- Behavioural responses of Neotropical raptors to drone approaches to nests.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Best practice guidance for recreational and professional drones near colonial breeding birds.PloS one · 2025Article
- Drones as a tool to study and monitor endangered Grey Crowned Cranes (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Artificial intelligence for automated detection of large mammals creates path to upscale drone surveys.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities.Ecology letters · 2022Review
- Vision-Based Module for Herding with a Sheepdog Robot.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Robust Algorithms for Drone-Assisted Monitoring of Big Animals in Harsh Conditions of Siberian Winter Forests: Recovery of European elk (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation.Nature communications · 2022Review
- Accounting for detection probability with overestimation by integrating double monitoring programs over 40 years.PloS one · 2022Article
- Sociability strongly affects the behavioural responses of wild guanacos to drones.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Animal Welfare Implications of Digital Tools for Monitoring and Management of Cattle and Sheep on Pasture.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
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Abstract
Research on the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in wildlife has made remarkable progress recently. Few studies to date have experimentally evaluated the effect of UAS on animals and have usually focused primarily on aquatic fauna. In terrestrial open arid ecosystems, with relatively good visibility to detect animals but little environmental noise, there should be a trade-off between flying the UAS at high height above ground level (AGL) to limit the disturbance of animals and flying low enough to maintain count precision. In addition, body size or social aggregation of species can also affect the ability to detect animals from the air and their response to the UAS approach. To address this gap, we used a gregarious ungulate, the guanaco (
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