NEW UNCREWED AERIAL VEHICLE AND DATA ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING MONITORING METHODS FOR UNGULATE ABUNDANCE AND MAMMALIAN TREE DAMAGE IMPACTS

Speaker: Mark Pickering, University of Southampton, United KingdomA 2.5 year DEFRA (UK) funded Nature for Climate Fund collaboration between Forest Research and University of Southampton has conducted in excess of 15 field trials in UK forests; collecting terabytes of visual, thermal and multi-spectral UAV imagery.