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Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Resources: UAS - Wildlife Mananagement

Governmental Organizations

National Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Project Office
U.S. Geology Survey.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
U.S. Forest Service
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Aviation - Unmanned Aircraft (UAS)
Department of the Interior / National Park Service.
Unmanned Aircraft
NASA

Other Organizations

Selected Articles

An Assessment of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildlife Research (Wildlife Society Bulletin | BioOne)
Dawn of drone ecology: low-cost autonomous aerial vehicles for conservation (Tropical Conservation Science)
Drones Count Wildlife More Accurately and Precisely Than Humans (Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
Evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicle shape, flight path and camera type for waterfowl surveys: disturbance effects and species recognition (PeerJ)
Fright or Flight? Behavioural Responses of Kangaroos to Drone-Based Monitoring (Drones)
A Modified Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to Solve A Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study with Drones for Wildlife Surveillance (Journal of Computational Design and Engineering)
A Protocol for Using Drones to Assist Monitoring of Large Breeding Bird Colonies (EcoEvoRxiv PrePrints)
The Social Implications of Using Drones for Biodiversity Conservation (Ambio)
Towards an Autonomous Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial System against Wildlife Poachers (Sensors)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation (Sensors)
Unmanned Survey of Elephants (PLOS One)