Monitoring Wading Birds at Scale Using Drones & Artificial Intelligence
Channel: weecology
Date: 2023-01-04

Monitoring ecological systems at the large scales required for management and restoration is challenging. We present ongoing research developing systems for large scale monitoring of wading birds in the Everglades using drones, computer vision algorithms, and high performance computing. These methods allow for weekly monitoring of numerous large wading bird colonies and transfer well to other systems. We also discuss preliminary work on using these methods to study reproduction in addition to population counts.