Aloha,

FYI:

We are pleased to announce our latest publication on the use of drones for

dugong research in India. This is the first time an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

has been used in the country to assess marine mammal populations. We also

detected several other species of conservation importance while conducting

these surveys. This work paves way for more detailed systematic surveys in

the future to estimate dugongs and other marine megafauna populations along

the vast Indian coastline.


Sagar Rajpurkar, Anant Pande, Sajal Sharma, Swapnali Gole, Sohini Dudhat,

J. A. Johnson, K. Sivakumar (2021) Light-weight unmanned aerial vehicle

surveys detect dugongs and other globally threatened marine species from

the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. *Current Science, 121(2).*


You may access the article from the link:

*https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/121/02/0195.pdf

<https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/121/02/0195.pdf>*

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Aloha and Drone On!

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing and the link.    Very interesting article for sure.  

Hi there. Thanks for sharing this information with us. Thank you for your continued support!