DJI Drones Give Scientists A New Look At Whales And Their Behavior

DJI drones are revolutionizing whale research by collecting breath samples and capturing rare behaviors from above.

This tech reduces stress on whales and reveals new insights, opening a bold new chapter in marine science. #DroneScience #WhaleResearch

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🚁 Bathymetry from drone videos
Learn how low-cost aerial surveys and video analysis can produce high-resolution bathymetric data—an innovative tool for river, coastal & estuarine studies.
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Photo of a student holding a drone while seated on a boat.

Photo of a drone flying over a rocky intertidal community.

Photo of a person flying a drone while seated on a boat.

Photo of the intertidal from the air with a large algal bloom visible in the water.

Our drone team has been busy conducting drone surveys of the rocky intertidal in British Columbia the past two days. They are back at it tomorrow. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwmarinebiology.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #drone #drones #dronescience

Side-by-side drone images, comparing the colour RGB image and the thermal sensor image. Both have Delacour's langurs in them, but they are much more obvious in the thermal image.

Cool new #dronescience coming out of Vietnam, led by my colleague Hoang Trinh-Dinh.

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Hoang used a drone to robustly survey the Critically Endangered Delacour’s langur in its extreme limestone home for the 1st time. (1/n)

Drones, whales, microorganisms, and snot. I’m hooked on this science already and I didn’t even make it through the key words yet. #drones #viruses #whales #DroneScience #RobotsAsFieldAssistants