ArticleCurrent zoology2023
A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking.
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- Terrestrial hermit crab with electronic payloads for opportunistic roaming environmental sensing.RSC advances · 2025Article
- A Review of Miniature Radio Transmitters for Wildlife Tracking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- WildDrone: autonomous drone technology for monitoring wildlife populations.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
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Abstract
Drones are increasingly used for fauna monitoring and wildlife tracking; however, their application for wildlife tracking is restricted by developing such systems. Here we explore the potential of drones for wildlife tracking using an off-the-shelf system that is easy to use by non-specialists consisting of a multirotor drone, smartphones, and commercial tracking devices via Bluetooth and Ultra-Wide Band (UWB). We present the system configuration, explore the operational parameters that can affect detection capabilities, and test the effectiveness of the system for locating targets by simulating target animals in savanna and forest environments. The self-contained tracking system was built without hardware or software customization. In 40 tracking flights carried out in the Brazilian Cerrado, we obtained a detection rate of 90% in savanna and 40% in forest areas. Tests for targets in movement (
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