3383 x 3467 px | 28,6 x 29,4 cm | 11,3 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
20 settembre 2018
Ubicazione:
ExCel London
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Changes to land cover and hunting are leading to major declines in tropical biodiversity. These changes are happening so quickly in the tropics that there is an urgent need for rapid and affordable techniques to monitor wildlife and its habitats. Drones offer a cheap and flexible way to get the very high resolution images needed. Optical and infrared sensors on board can determine the distribution and density of animals and allow conservationists to map land cover and spot changes. In this talk, Serge Wich presents recent examples of how drones have been applied to conservation and how astrophysicists are aiding the data collection and analyses. Examples include the counting of orangutan and chimpanzee nests to determine their distribution and density, automatic detection of species through techniques used in astrophysics, land-cover classification and change monitoring. Serge will also offer some thoughts on the future of technology and conservation. Serge Wich is a biologist who obtained his PhD in 2002 at Utrecht University. He worked as a post-doc at Utrecht University until 2005 when he joined Great Ape Trust of Iowa where he worked as a scientist until 2009 when he joined the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program and the University of Zurich. He joined Liverpool John Moores University as a professor in primate biology in 2012. In 2014 he joined the University of Amsterdam as a honorary professor for the conservation of the great apes. Serge is also a founding director of the non-profit ConservationDrones.org. Serge Wich is a biologist/ecologist with a keen interest in primates and tropical rain forests. His work focuses on pure and applied research. He has studied several primate species, but has been mainly focusing on orangutans and their habitat in recent years. He currently is a professor at Liverpool John Moores University in the Research Centre in Evolutionary
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