Our first project was to find a cheaper way to monitor orangutan populations in Sumatra. Traditionally people have to walk the forest on foot and count the nests in the forest canopy, and from those c...
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With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone.
TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
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When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
At TEDGlobal 2013 environmental systems researcher Lian Pin Koh presents a new and unexpectedly benign use for drones: nature conservation. Nepal has natural landscapes that are beautiful — and i...