Bay watch: Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) to survey the box jellyfish Chironex fleckeri.

ABSTRACT: Biological investigations on free ranging marine species are regarded as challenging throughout the scientific community. This is particularly true for 'logistically difficult species' where their cryptic natures, low abundance, patchy distributions and difficult and/or dangerous sampling environments, make traditional surveys near impossible. What results is a lack of ecological knowledge on such marine species. However, advances in UAV technology holds potential for overcoming these logistical difficulties and filling this knowledge gap. Our research focused on one such logistically difficult species, the Australian box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), and we investigated the capacity of consumer grade UAV technology to detect this, highly venomous, target species in the inshore waters of

SUBMITTER: Rowley OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7595306 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature