Lian Pin Koh

How drones are emerging as a valuable conservation tool | Lian Pin Koh via Environment 360

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...

25 August 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Drones against illegal fishing

Image source: Flickr 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...

24 July 2014, by Dronologista

TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”

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...

11 June 2013, by Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich

Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans

Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013. Update with the full video below Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...

11 June 2013, by Robohub Editors

Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog

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...

11 June 2013, by Hallie Siegel

Conservation drones in the field: Lian Pin Koh at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog

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...