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Drones, Volume 7, Issue 8

2023 August - 56 articles

Cover Story: Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) are proving particularly valuable for data collection in the natural world. The potential for bird strikes presents a real hazard in these settings. We flew quadcopter RPASs over breeding seabird colonies and recorded all interactions between flying seabirds and RPAS units. We demonstrate a high capacity to undertake safe and successful RPAS operations in airspaces that contain high densities of flying seabirds. While bird collisions remain possible, such outcomes are clearly rare and should be placed in context with routine disturbances that are generated by ground surveys seeking to meet the same objectives. RPASs routinely offer the least invasive method for collecting ecological data and can be undertaken with a relatively low risk to successful operation completion. View this paper
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