The Possibility Of Drones Analysis

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There are many beautiful creatures that many of us fail to see in our everyday life. Many of the most beautiful creatures live deep within wondrous, vast forests. Seeing these creatures is often difficult, but what is even more difficult is protecting and learning about them. In Lian Pin Koh’s case, the animals near the Himalayas in Nepal are at risk to be poached for their body parts. Protecting these animals with soldiers is often difficult due to the size of the forests and the possibility of getting into shootouts with poachers. Koh and his team have thought of a way to combat “wildlife crime,” and learn more about the animals and their habitat, and that solution is the drone (Koh). Koh describes a drone as “simply a model aircraft …show more content…

Some forests can be so large that it would be a project in and of itself to patrol for illegal hunters. Koh argues that drones solve this problem. The conservation drones can be programmed to fly however the operator wants. They can even be used to create a map of an area it is surveying (Koh). As Koh describes, “sometimes, we fly the drone in a lawnmower- type patter and take pictures of that area, and those pictures can be processed to produce a map of that forest.” Koh also explains how drones help to protect animals from being illegally killed. “Other researchers might want to fly the drone along the boundaries of a forest to watch out for poachers or people who might be trying to enter the forest illegally.” Drones can also help track animals through radio frequency, implant listening devices into an area of the forest, and collect images from cameras on the ground (Koh). Drones remove all of the grunt work and some of the human risk involved with conservation, and they do it with just a few clicks of a …show more content…

Koh makes his drones, which can carry additional weight, more efficient by adding tools. “A drone like this is meant to carry a useful payload, such as a video camera or photographic camera.” By having additional tools, researchers are able to map out the landscape, get a close up view of certain objectives, and track animals or poachers even more efficiently (Koh). Koh added some unique tools to help get a better idea of what was in the forest. “Perhaps the most exciting way of using these drones is to fly them to a really remote, never-explored-before rainforest hidden somewhere in the tropics, and parachute down a microphone that would allow us to eavesdrop on the calls of mammals, birds, amphibians, the Yeti, the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, whatever.” Drones and the things that they can carry provide a wide array of ways to improve

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