Drones in Support of Citizen Science
The recent Count Your Mob program that mobilised community members to photograph and count our macropods, then upload these to iNaturalist for collating has demonstrated the power of Citizen Science in exposing the inadequacies of remote efforts to make such estimates. But it did require a lot of effort by those terrific volunteers and also left some areas potentially under-sampled. Drones to the rescue. Modern drones are easy to operate and can be equipped with advanced sensing systems to aid…