Ocean Alliance

The BBC’s Blue Planet series, usually accompanied by the smooth tones of David Attenborough, remains one of the broadcaster’s most popular exports and has been inspiring conservation and awareness of the natural world for years. So it’s fitting that this year’s series – a special week of live programs celebrating …

If you follow how drones are being used in the world of conservation, you will have heard about Ocean Alliance by now. The Massachusetts-based marine conservation organization has pioneered a new way of collecting biological samples from whales in the form of SnotBot. These adapted drones act as flying Petri …

Our buddies at Ocean Alliance have been pioneering the usage of drones for marine analysis for fairly a while. But till very just lately, these drones had been primarily off-the-shelf quadcopters, modified to be flying Petri dishes able to gathering whale snot with out disturbing the animals. These flying ‘SnotBots’ …

Our pals at Ocean Alliance have been utilizing drones to gather samples from whales, establish them within the wild and observe their actions from above. Over the summer time they have been in Alaska and, with the assistance of Intel’s algorithms, have been in a position to spot completely different …

Drones get a number of credit score for his or her pioneering potential throughout numerous industrial sectors. From inspection and upkeep to aerial images and agriculture, there’s no finish of use circumstances and excited adopters. But, as we’ve written about earlier than, the identical know-how can also be revolutionizing the environmental …

In June final 12 months information emerged that Ocean Alliance, a number one group devoted to marine conservation and analysis, was utilizing drones to assemble knowledge on whales. Almost one 12 months on, we’ve been again in contact to learn how issues have progressed and the way drones have remodeled …