“The AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and organizations who have applied unmanned systems technology to create solutions to address a range of challenges affecting business and society,” said Brian Wynne, president and CEO of AUVSI. “AUVSI is pleased to recognize these finalists for their perseverance and dedication…
We’re happy to share our 2019 WildTrack Annual Report, detailing our work throughout 2019. We always welcome feedback, thoughts, suggestions and new ideas so please read it and tell us what you like, what we could do better, and what you’d like to see moving forward. Huge thanks to the…
Building a strong user network is key to the success of any new technology. WildTrack’s Footprint Identification Technology is being used across five continents, but it hasn’t always been easy for our users to network with each other from remote parts of the world. Now we have a solution: Our…
Honoured to be on this list, and proud to recognize our partners at JMP software, senseFly, the US Army Research Office, BerkeleyISchool and DesignHammer for the invaluable contributions they make to our work. 50 social impact innovations that might save the world
Neoichnology. The science of footprints. Footprints for wildlife conservation. Last week something remarkable happened. A group of wildlife conservationists, physicists, geologists, security experts, computer scientists, statisticians, drone experts and engineers from all over the world got together to discuss a different approach to wildlife monitoring. A non-invasive approach, one that…
What led two rhino conservationists working in a remote area of Africa to discover a better way of keeping track of rhino? The answer is JMP software. We had some novel ideas, and JMP allowed us to test and implement them, resulting in our Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), and other…
Can senseFly’s eBee X help us monitor rhino and other wildlife in Africa? We’re here in Namibia trialing this awesome drone using many different parameters and on-board sensors. We’re super grateful to Robert Leake of senseFly Europe for his expertise in challenging conditions, and to the Reinhard family at Kuzikus…
The WildTrack team is in Namibia filming two techniques for monitoring black rhino; FIT in JMP software to identify individuals, and using senseFly eBee X fixed-wing aircraft to survey landscapes for trails. We’re with the German Terra X documentary group with Director Christopher Gerisch, who will be making a documentary…
This CFIT presentation was given to the Conservation Technology session at the September 2019 AZA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Schwartz, K. and Jewell, Z. September 2019. ConservationFIT: AZA Big Cat Footprints Contribute to Conservation Monitoring in the Wild. 2019 AZA Annual Meeting Proceedings, New Orleans, LA
WildTrack is partnering with the US leading fixed-wing drone manufacturer senseFly to explore the use of their excellent integrated drone mapping systems for wildlife monitoring. A few days ago we visited the Duke Marine Lab at Beaufort, NC, with senseFly, to test out senseFly’s new eBee X drone. Here’s what…
